sharpeworld.com
This site has been one of my very favorites awhile, but it's been on hiatus. It seems to be awake now, though, with linkity goodness like its (his? their?) new MP3 series, "People that sound like instruments and instruments that sound like people."

This week's MP3 spotlight:
driven by the idea that it would be nice to come up with a way to enable his "deaf and dumb" neighbors to speak through a guitar, pete drake, a 1960s nashville steel guitar player (responsible for introducing steel guitar into pop music via his recordings with bob dylan, elvis presley, and george harrison), spent five years developing a way to make his instrument talk. although he sold millions of records with his "talking steel guitar" invention (not to be confused with the vocoder, a speech synthesis device invented by bell labs in 1939), it wasn't until "frampton comes alive!" that the talking guitar finally became a household sound.

Check out the archive while you're there. Definitely worth every minute.

sharpeworld -- mp3 of the week