Nokie Edwards' personal guitar
2000's Nokie Edwards Fujigen "Dragon"
This guitar was made in 2002? by Fujigen in Japan with beautiful "Dragon" inlay on fret board. Fujigen is one of the largest guitar manufacturers in Japan. "Dragon" is a noble and good luck sign in the Orient. This was Nokie Edwards' personal guitar.
Look who was playing this guitar in the last photo? Yeah, you guess it right, that's the late Mr. Buster B. Jones.
In 1988, Brad "Buster" B. Jones entered Guitar Player Magazine's International Guitar Competition with his own composition, "Back Porch Boogie," and a rendition of "Lime-house Blues." He entered on a whim, at the last minute, using a $1.50 K-Mart cassette tape and a boom box. There were almost 900 entries, and he won on the first ballot.
In 1990, he won the National Fingerpicking Championship at Winfield, Kansas. In the last years he has performed with Chet Atkins, Tommy Jones, Marcel Dadi, Thom Bresh, and John Knowles. He is a regular at the annual conventions in Nashville and France of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society. In France they have dubbed him LE MACHINE GUN.
"Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist - and he's one of the finest players we've heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch... He's a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences."
--Guitar Player Magazine
Mr. Buster B. Jones passed away in early 2009.
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