On January 1, 2011, he became Taylor’s Master Guitar Designer. The list of famed musicians Powers has built guitars for since then includes Taylor Swift, Zac Brown, and Edge from U2.

A multi-instrumentalist who played fiddle, mandolin, viola, drums, piano and harmonica in addition to guitar, Brown was a master of many genres: big-band blues, bop, country, Cajun, even calypso ...

Jamieson “Junior” Brown is offering a $2,000 reward for the return of his guit-steel, a rare double-necked guitar that he invented himself, and his wife Tanya Rae Brown’s Martin Shenandoah ...