How a 'Haunted' Guitar Helped Shakey Graves Find His Sound
Alejandro Rose-Garcia -- the Austin, Texas-born singer-songwriter better known as Shakey Graves -- is in possession of a haunted guitar. And that might not even the wildest part of the story. The 1932 Gibson L-7 originally belonged to a man named Jay Manley, a World War II veteran and Kansas City-based jazz musician, and the boyfriend of the grandmother of Rose-Garcia's friend, who goes by Jason 71. "If there ever was a vampire, he could be a cool vampire," Rose-Garcia says of Jason 71. "He always wore the same outfit -- which was all-black denim and a nametag that said, 'Hello, my name is Ja...
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