I’m a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

No,” said Blackwell, “she won’t, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will have established in our conversation. That’s the key word here, Laney, ‘personal.’ ‘Up close, and.’ We will...