Freeman Vines worked on guitars out of a workshop in Fountain, North Carolina. He spoke with WUNC on Dec. 4, 2024. A prominent guitar maker and blues musician from Pitt County has died. Freeman Vines ...

For guitarist George Freeman, The Good Life has also been a long life. He was a nimble-fingered ninety-five-year-old plectrist when this splendid album was recorded in May and June 2022, which makes ...

Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about ...

There are 1,001 stories worth telling about George Freeman—guitarist, raconteur, raucous traffic cop at the five corners of jazz, blues, and funk—but I think two do a lot of the heavy lifting. George ...

Beyond the lyric beauty of the song itself, Freeman caressed its motifs as only a very seasoned musician could, the feathery quality of his tone matched by the tenderness of his phrasing. —Howard ...

Is it possible for an artist to improve at age 92? If you’re a Chicago jazz guitarist named George Freeman, the answer assuredly is yes. For the show Freeman played Friday night at the Green Mill Jazz ...

“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.” Credit... Supported by Text by Joshua Needelman Photographs and Video by Sasha Arutyunova ...