Mule

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...

Zach came up to Mule HQ for the tailgate before Jason Isbell's show. Zach has a Mule and the thing with customers is that a lot of times they end up being friends. "In Grateful Cooperative Labor" is on the certificates that...

PARR If ever there was a way to kick off 2024 Mules Bus Stops it would be seeing Charlie Parr in Chicago. Tailgate will start around THREE (not two like in the video) and I’m going to the early show at 5 because I’m old and...

The reason we do this is to get people inspirational musical tools. Seeing what comes out of combining our work with yours is our greatest joy. 

The Modest Mavis is the work horse version of our standard Mavis....

The Mule Bus has been wrapped and we are getting along just fine. Just need to finish the flooring, install some rear seats and bed and then we are ready to take this show on the road. Mule has always been about what has...

My wife dropped me off at the staff entrance to the festival. A man got out of the van in front of me with a lunchbox and stopped and turned to wave to his dad. His dad was probably 70, the man was probably around my age and...

I saw Charlie Parr play at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee a few years ago. He was opening for Derek and Susan. It’s a big place. He played his set and got a standing ovation. One guy sitting on keyboard stool he padded...

John Smith playing “River” on his Mavis  merry Muletide! https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044217...

NAMM. I love it. We don’t have sales guys in bowling shirts saying the same things like they are new things. It’s me and Pops Mule. My dad doesn’t even play guitar. But I brought him to my first NAMM and he loved it too. Last...

The Mule Bus is going to load up and head out to @bourbonandbeyond festival in Louisville middle of September. There’s going to be a Mule player there almost every day with The Killers, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars. Also…...

25.5” baritone, dirty pink. Enough said.  ...

JEFFREY FOUCAULT - 4 A.M. (RICHARD BUCKNER) from Jeffrey Foucault on Vimeo. ...

Better late than never... Merry Christmas from my family to yours! https://youtu.be/5RWhqrOHR9w Matt...

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...

“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...

Raffle! Charlie Parr is offering up his woody Mule to benefit Life House of Duluth, a charity that offers unconditional support to homeless youth. This is one of three wooden resonators I’ve made, and in collaboration with...

This past week a friend and I traveled to the barren tundra of Ontario to visit our friend and hand plane-maker extraordinaire Konrad Sauer. Oh, and JL stopped by to pick up his Mulecaster. https://youtu.be/eD7FaZQXCl8...

A bit of a primer on the pieces of these resonator guitars. If you are new to the world of resonators, this will help you get acquainted. The body of a resonator guitar is typically either steel or brass.  My guitars are no...

The moment before something important is said on a morning walk with a new love or an old one. The lift after. The coffee. The pause between casts on a winter steelhead stream. The second glove pulled off, the...