If you go
› What: “An Evening with Doyle Dykes”› Where: Songbirds Guitar Museum, 35 Station St.› When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12› Admission: $20› Phone: 423-531-2473› Online: songbirdsguitars.com
For fans of guitar players and guitar music, it might be inconceivable to think that someone like Doyle Dykes has to travel abroad to get a reminder of just how good he is.
Dykes, who lives in Cleveland, Tenn., recently traveled to China for a guitar convention and ran into a guitar-playing father and son. They also happened to be big Dykes fans. He was attending a trade show and, when he walked outside, the young man was playing one of his songs. It just so happened to be a particularly meaningful song for Dykes.
“It was a song I wrote for my mother. I’m in Shanghai, China, and this millennial is playing it note for note. Here I’m more the Cracker Barrel crowd, so it was a real confidence booster.”
Dykes said the young man had dyed red hair and told him his father, who Dykes said looked like an Asian version of Ozzy Osbourne with the same dye job but longer hair, also played Dykes’ music.