Video from Doyle Dykes' Resurrection Guitar concert coming soon.
You can see Doyle playing at many venues around the country or on his YouTube Sunday String Alongs.
Doyle Dykes is arguably the most gifted fingerstyle guitarist alive today, having played with Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Duane Eddy, Peter Frampton, John Fogerty, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson and many others.
When asked about Doyle, Chet Atkins replied, "Doyle is one of the finest fingerpicking guitarists around. I sincerely admire him as a person and as a musician. " — Chet Atkins, CGP
Doyle with a few of his Friends
The two finest finger pickers in the world –Doyle Dykes and Tommy Emmanuel
The great Eric Johnson with Doyle
Doyle performing with legendary Duane Eddy
Bowen Guitars - "Resurrection Guitar"
This is the true story of the timber from one common spruce tree that grew for nearly 400 years in the northern Alps before being felled by peasants in about 1460 and floated down the Isar River as an offering to build the largest cathedral in the Bavaria, the “Frauenkirche”.
Buried in the rubble and ashes of the Allied bombed 500 year-old Munich Cathedral, a special roof truss should have been destroyed but this timber was miraculously saved for the purpose of new life as a guitar, built through the hands of a dying luthier and his partner/luthier son, to bring Joy and the Hope of God’s renewing power to those who hear it.
Found 75 years after the cathedral was bombed, in a small Village in southwestern Germany by George Bowen. There was just enough wood left to build one bookmatched topped guitar. This alpine spruce is the same wood used by Stradivarius, only 200 years older.
Building the "Resurrection Guitar"
Andrew meticulously shaping the braces which are part of the secret sauce of getting the best Tone.
George carving the tone bar braces
Andrew preparing to glue the precious top on the sides and back made from AAAAA Brazilian rosewood, The finest wood befitting this historic top.
With a little help from our dear friend James Olson
