Carter Brothers endorse Gallagher Guitars

The Carter Brothers, Danny and Tim (known here from many Johnny Keenan Banjo Festivals), are among the first artists to join a new endorsement program for J.W. Gallagher & Son Guitars, based in Wartrace, TN, who have been producing completely handcrafted instruments for nearly seventy years. The Danny Reid Carter signature model will be available from Gallagher in summer 2009. Tim Carter will be playing the G-50 Doc Watson model dreadnaught.

A Gallagher compilation CD, featuring the Carter Brothers and other artists endorsed by Gallagher including Jim Hurst and Steve Kaufman, will be recorded and released this year, with some of the tracking being done in the Carters' own Tree House Studios in Ridgetop, TN, where many of the top names in bluegrass have recorded.

Thanks to Shari Lacy, formerly of IBMA and now of GoodStuff PR, for the news. NB: Gallagher guitars are also stocked by Tom Cussen at Clareen Banjos near Galway.