While researching this rare Kay Carson Robison guitar, we came across a clipping of the 1941 Montgomery Ward catalog it was listed in and found something curious cut off on the left side of the page. Featured right next to the Carson Robison guitar was a guitar bearing the name of Louise Massey. Could it be that not all singing cowboys were boys?
While researching this rare Kay Carson Robison guitar, we came across a clipping of the 1941 Montgomery Ward catalog it was listed in and found something curious cut off on the left side of the page. Featured right next to the Carson Robison guitar was a guitar bearing the name of Louise Massey. Could it be that not all singing cowboys were boys?
Ani DiFrancoâStill Righteous, Still Revolutionary June 10, 2021
Ani DiFranco s Kay acoustic was modded by Reuben Cox of L.A. s Old Style Guitar Shop. He puts rubber around the bridges of guitars and they end up very funky, dead, and earthy, like an old dude on a porch suddenly playing it, she says.
Photo by Katie Sikora
The acoustic firebrand recorded with a band of masked strangers, using her modded vintage Kay acoustics for the songs of social upheaval and survival on her 22nd
album,
Revolutionary Love. Then, she got arrested.
While the world lay dormant under strict lockdowns, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and activist Ani DiFranco stepped out to make a strong political statement. DiFranco and her crew went to a Shell oil refinery to film the video for Simultaneously, from her latest release,