The Steel Woods' Jason "Rowdy" Cope died in January, but his power-chord-meets-chicken-pickin' guitar style lives on with a posthumous album. "He was a natural bridge between feel and technique ...

Jason Isbell and Gibson Custom Guitars partnered to replicate his “Red Eye” 1959 Les Paul Standard Collector’s Edition. ... His very own collector's edition guitar with a quirky attribute.

At 12, Jason sat down next to his dad and played all the guitar parts from Eric Clapton’s latest album. He had taught himself. “He had a vision,” said his mother, Pat.

Wood pieces used for the sides of the guitars await production at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company in, which uses old violin techniques to make a few hundred custom handmade guitars a year in Santa ...