Mule

Music tools make more than music. They make us sit in parking lots and play instruments with people we don't know. They bring thousands of unconnected people and compel them to sleep in their cars together and dance in the...

Promenade in green... This show was 1,000 years old. Outside at the muddy base of a un-aging mountain range. Strings of lights cutting the campsite from the natural order around it. The crowd traveling down the mountains to...

I'm in Iowa parked in the back of a Planet Fitness parking lot. Its 11:30 pm and there's a surprising amount of people working out. It's a parking lot of misfit toys - an odd assortment of vehicles with people sleeping in...

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Don’t just do stuff. Things are worth thinking deeply about. The more intention applied, the more we train ourselves to see during the process, the more we integrate what we...

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“Can I play it acoustic?” That was the number one question three years ago when after a week of manic building and some encouragement by...

These instruments are music tools and people have been putting them to work.  Videos of people using these guitars to inspire and push their playing is my greatest joy.   Thats why I started Mule and why we continue to do...

Why do I make guitars? These ones, specifically.
You. Don't freak out, it's nothing personal. It's just that when you're sitting in a song circle in the Shenandoah Valley and everyone is belting "Paradise" while playing...

These Mules are music tools. What do they build? Inspiration. What's inspiration? Sure, sometimes a song drops from heaven onto the back of a napkin at a diner, or you wake up with a tune in your head you record on your...

Although we did suspend international shipping during Covid because of carriers losing or delaying instruments dramatically we have been shipping guitars internationally for the past year or so. We will continue to do...

This not-so Modest Mavis was sold yesterday but there’s more where this came from. The Modest Mavis are our chance to stretch our luthier-legs a bit and try some new ideas that (usually) don’t add much to the $2700 price....

I woke up to a text message with a picture of a bandaged index finger. I don’t remember what the words in the text were exactly but what I said out loud was “oh shit”. Dave had sent me a picture of the tattoo he had just...

Jeff and Diane Huss at Mule HQ. "So... what kind of music do you listen to?" This was the first question Jeff asked at my interview at Huss and Dalton-my first guitar making job. I was 20. Kelly Joe Phelps had upended my...

Resonator guitars are just guitars. We are in a shift where people are seeing them as the music tools they are - different sounds create different musical choices. No high set ups suitable only for the 12 feet wiggle. You...

We are bringing the Mule Bus to Hammond, IN to do some tailgating before seeing this stud rip on his Mavis @jinglejohnosborne and to make sure master- tech @zachrickardmusic doesn’t get any funny ideas about turning truss...

Success lies in the balance between two opposing ideas. Knowing when to wait out the rain and when push through. Getting out of the way and seeing things the way they truly are not how we would like them to be. Moving on...

The Modest Mavis are guitars that are $2700 and have no wait list. We build a couple each week and release them Monday mornings, EST.  Behold! The Modest Mavis. Modest in appointments but not in sonic inspiration.   I want...

“We’re friends because Kelly Joe told me about your guitars.” I’m in Jeffrey Foucault’s kitchen. It’s beautiful and authentically classic, like the uncurated quaintness of his adopted city, Shelburne Falls. I’m drinking beer...

“The great psychologist The Big Lebowski said, ‘well that’s just, like, your opinion man,’ You can say that to yourself. You can change your mind. I’ve really been exploring this idea of the observing self in an effort to...

“That was the beginning of the end of my life.” Joey and I are sitting next to each other on a leather sofa in a surprisingly stunning green room at Magic Bag outside Detroit. Our conversation has covered “shit we...

The Bus rolls on! Mule Bus Stops are tailgates to thank musicians who play our guitars. I’ll be bringing guitars, Saginaw Mules with Meili, Faygo, hot dogs and hijinx. Come hang out before the show. Location of the bus in...