The Last Bass Outpost

Rolling Stone just published The 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time

Most of them wouldn't begin to make any top list of mine, but I was pleased to see a few, including this.

So you don't have Taylor Swift in your top 20 of all time greatest Country songs?
I picked up a country gold compilation my last time through Cracker Barrell. Here's a few that stuck out to me.
Just an awesome upright bass tone on this early Bocephus track.

A nice sentimental one I hadn't heard before.

Here's one that's still pretty relevant for the times.

An appropriate moment to repost the one I built some years ago:

How incredibly vile and nasty you two are!  I had nothing whatsoever to do with the gestation of that particular bass, if you remember, a Texan car dealer wanted it that way and instructed the Custom Shop. I bought it decades later.

And soundwise, I bet it creams the mudbucker predecessors into the ground, so there!

   

 Your Mother told you, you'd meet girls like me!

My not pimp - ish Bombay Sapphire Bird!

 

There's still this........

From a business perspective, my conversion necks and 8-string bridges have been a success. By contrast, my complete builds with traditional finishes have been loss leaders. I enjoy the building process, but the return on investment has been disappointing.

With that in mind, I'm going to discontinue offering complete builds with traditional finishes to all but existing customers and return to where I started, graphic finishes. I plan to build these on spec for myself as stand-alone pieces and price them at a premium. If they sell, they sell. Otherwise, I'll keep them as art pieces.

These will be the first bodies in a new series of graphic finishes. I'm excited about the possibilities.

Very nice, great tone. I’m halfway through a rehab of a 60s Newport myself