My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords from 70 Legendary Musicians
"Ask a musician to talk about their first instrument and it seems they are off and running, full of anecdotes, joy, and poetic longing, describing those beat-up first guitars as if they were their first loves, which in many ways they undoubtedly were."  —Graham Parker, Singer/Songwriter"This book is testament. It's not just about the first guitars or the players themselves, really. It's much more: the follow-up from that first chance meeting—that coming-of-age experience with music. This is life, told and celebrated through guitars."  —Premier Guitar(September 2012)"Crowe captures what all of her interview subjects share: a love, sublime or offbeat, of the instruments that inspired them to make music." —Publishers Weekly(August 27, 2012)"Anyone who loves guitars and guitar players (whether or not you're a player yourself) will love looking through this book." —American Songwriter(September 2012)"The wayMy First Guitaris divided makes it a quick read, easy to refer back to for those certain favorites and easy to put down and start reading again no matter how much time has passed." —The Weekender(September 2012)"The book is a rich vein of practical information from which one may extract a huge surplus of musical inspiration." —www.PopMatters.com"Overall, this book is entertaining, and for the fan of the instrument, creates a very poignant picture of the rise of the guitar in pop culture." —San Francisco Book Review(December 2012)"The first-person stories told here are as compelling for music fans as they are for non-guitar folk." —Vancouver Sun(December 15, 2012)