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Maury & Lori will be away on vacation from August 22-26.  Andrew will be shipping all website orders & answering emails without Maury's help. You can still order from our secure website 24/7, but please allow a little extra time for order fulfillment & email replies.

Season 1 Episode 15 of Martins & More puts the spotlight on the concert artists and recording stars that were honored by C. F. Martin & Company with a limited edition model celebrating their contribution to popular music. Some have been honored with more than one such model. Thanks to all our listeners on the Maury’s Music Facebook page for replying to the poll that led us to doing a podcast about Artist models made by Martin!

Season 1 Episode 13 of Martins & More focuses on the “More” as Maury takes us through the many offerings from Blueridge guitars. Spoon chimes in with his opinion of the unique chime in the Blueridge voice, and the many attractive features of these finely crafted instruments.

Season 1 Episode 12 of Martins & More gets down home and personal, as Maury Rutch and T Spoon Phillips share stories and details of their personal Martin guitars. Thanks to listener John, for requesting this topic!

Check back daily for Maury’s MartinFest 2022 updates!

Season 1 Episode 11 of Martins & More offers you Maury and Spoon’s authentic opinions and authenticated knowledge of Martin’s Authentic Series. Each guitar is a meticulously researched reconstruction of specific classic vintage Martins from before, during, and after their Golden Era of the 1930s.

GuitarBench magazine interviewed Maury back in early 2021 for their monthly podcast. The two had a nice conversation & the episode finally aired in July of 2022.

Season 1 Episode 9 of Martins & More has Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music discussing the most modern and deliciously deluxe Martins from the Modern Deluxe Series, with his longtime pal, the always knowledgeable and ever opinionated T Spoon Phillips, pipping up and pipping in from Brooklyn, New York.

X marks the spot in Season 1 of Martins & More, as Episode 7 finds Maury and Spoon investigating the mysteries of Martin’s X Series! Each a modern marvel in its own right. From the mighty electric-acoustic Dreadnought models like the stunning D-X1E, to the contemporary Grand Performance sized GPC-X2E, these never fail to impress anyone who has yet to play an X Series model when it comes to the Tone to Dollar Spent ratio.

Season 1 Episode 6 of Martins & More is dedicated to Maury and Spoon’s personal opinions of the amazing new Martins released at the 2022 trade show for the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM.) There was only one NAMM show this year and Martin made the most of it!