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“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...

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. 

There’s no wait list to get on for them, Monday Mornings are your chance to pick...

I'm standing on the front of a 400 LB Dallas Guitar Show pallet tipping precariously down a ramp made from a big piece of steel "strapped" to the loading dock so hopefully it doesn't slide and dump the pallet. I'm about to...

NAMM can be about stuff or it can be about people. Shuji @bluebell_straps @nicolecerminara @markhopkinsmusic @simona_malandrino @austinonguitar @zeppelinbarnatra @rhettshull @beetronics Pops Mule


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My good friend and spirit animal Dave Hicks took his tricone to see the mighty Dinnie stones in Scotland. In Scotland there are historical tests of strength called lifting stones. Most are massive. The Dinnies combined are...

The Jae Foundation is a suicide prevention organization and they are auctioning off a Modest Mavis. You can bid on it here:  https://jaefound2023.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14135174 Read more about their mission and how they...

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...

When you need a pallet full of awesome guitars to Safely get to NAMM, get you a man who has been shot in the neck in Albuquerque and survived. Bahaa begins his cross country Mule Road Trip now. All the driving is tough on...

NAMM is next week! Come see us at booth #4933. 

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1000 connections, 1000 hands locked in grateful cooperative labor.  We've now made 1000 resonators, 400 Mavis, and 400 mulecasters. How many songs is that? How many stories and connections is that?   In 2009 I had almost...

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....

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...

It’s been a while since the other tenants complained about the noise so we made something more thunderous. Hollow steel body Mule Bass

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Who plays these resonator guitars? After 1700 instruments I can tell you 8/10 customers have never owned a resonator guitar before. I’m tremendously proud of that. You can do anything with them, it’s just a tool. They aren’t...

These guitars don’t just show up on your doorstep. They are made for YOU by people who decided to dedicate their life to doing just that. When work begins you get to follow along through progress pictures and watch it come to...

We have a limited number of international spots available each month  I stopped shipping internationally during Covid because shipping was a mess - guitars were lost for months, one ended up in a swamp in Spain. Things are...

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. I'm 18 and pre-cellphones every alarm made the same disastrous noise. It's 1 A.M. and that means the dryers at the laundromat are free so I grab my laundry bag and walk across the soundless complex...

Find out here : https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044327 -Matt...

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

Celisse ripping “rocking around the Christmas tree” on a tricone.
https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044204...

Tyler Bryant rocking Christmas: https://www.muleresophonic.com/admin/videos/2044182...

No one takes resonators into uncharted waters like Doug.  https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044180 Matt...

Holiday season is awesome. And it can be hard. If you’re struggling send me an email, muleresonators@gmail.com. And if you need help, we are providing a month of counseling to two Mule Team members (if you’re reading this,...

When a Charlie Hunter from every timeline shows up to play "Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and one of them is playing a Muelcaster.... ...

Sure they are steel but other than doubling as a home defense weapon how does that matter musically? Get knowledge today on Mule School.

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In limited amounts each month. I’ve always wanted everyone to have a Mule who wanted one. When covid messed up logistics this made international shipping even more tenuous while orders were sky rocketing. We are a small...