Hi folks...These personal pages are a place for Tim and I to say exactly what's on our minds in any way we choose. It will be the only places on this website where we might relate personal and political views and our opinions about anything that strikes our fancy. It will not be all moaning and groaning political stuff. I'll opine as I wish and I will also write very interesting personal pieces and stories. I also will use this page as a daily journal when we're on tour so that I can share with you what's going on etc....It will be interesting to watch these Personal Pages develop over the coming months. Please come back often and feel free to leave a blog about anything I might have to say...no blogs will be deleted just because we may not agree. One thing I can assure you.....it won't be boring in here...!

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Danny

September 9, 2009: Wow, forgot this page was here. My apologies for being so 'non-vigilant' and not living up to my promise of keeping this particular page fresh. It seems like these days we have so many internet webpages liie MySpace, Facebook etc....It's hard for me to keep up with it all but I vow to keep all these sites up and refreshed on a daily basis even if i need help doing it sometimes. I'll try and do better with a schedule that is already next to insane. Love me, I love you!  dc

** Hi folks. It is saturday morning Feb. 21 2009. I'm sitting here looking out my office window in our home, the TreeHouse in Ridgetop, TN watching the rain/ice/snow clouds gathering for what will inevitably be a messy afternoon and evening.I'm doing some laundry, preppy a few guitars and packing for our Key West 7 night stand at the Hogs Breath Monday 23rd through March 02 2009. Should be a big one from what I understand with the Carter Brothers Fan Club commitee coming in from all over the place for the week. 

Here's a blog I just recently posted at MySpace(www.myspace.com/dannyreidcarter) about our recent endorsement agreement with J.W. Gallagher & Son Guitars. We've done a lot of cool things and received many wonderful accolades in our travels around the world but this Gallagher Guitar endorsement is almost the Holy Grail to us. What an extreme honor to be included into such fine company as Doc Watson, Jim Hurst and a few others on the small list of endorsers.

Gallagher Guitar Co. Endorsement….

Hi Friends. This past week the Carter Brothers were honored to be asked to participate in the Gallagher Guitar Company’s artist endorsement program. We met with Stephen and his father Don Gallagher on Friday Feb. 6, 2009 at their shop and headquarters in the lovely quaint village of Wartrace, TN and spent the entire day playing guitars, talking, having lunch and eventually designing what will be the ‘Danny Reid Carter Signature’ model which will be available in the Gallagher catalogue this summer 2009. The well worn dusty shop and the curing of warm distinctive aromas of exotic woods from around the world is a pretty heady experience as we were led around for a tour of the famous facility. Tim picked himself out a G-50 Doc Watson model dreadnaught of which they had one in stock and the guitar returned home with us that evening. He fell in love with the guitar soon after arriving and whispered to me that it was to be ‘the one’ for him. J.W. Gallagher and Son Guitars has been producing totally hand crafted instruments in the Wartrace shop for nearly 70 years. Now they are into their third generation of family luthiers with the most capable Stephen Gallagher at the helm. Stephen will oversee the construction of Danny’s model along with a small staff of some of the most highly regarded builders in the world. From what we witnessed the new instruments coming out of the shop these days will be some of the best to date and this generation will be a great era in custom guitar craftsmanship for the company. Detail is the word here. The company (around 5 craftsmen) only produce about 100 guitars per year and quality control is the name of the game down to the smallest detail. Only the finest imported woods, African and Honduran mahogany’s, Brazilian and Indonesian rosewood’s, Sitka and Adirondack spruce…well, you get the picture, are kept in the climate controlled wood materials room.

Don and Stephen are both two of the most delightful and friendly folks you would ever want to meet. Always with ready smiles and easy going demeanors one would never know how revered and famous the Gallagher name has become around the music world. Don is especially pleased that “ the Carter and Gallagher families have come together to share a most rich musical heritage”.  Tim and myself are very fortunate to have the opportunity to endorse several other well known musical instrument makers and music products companies but I gotta tell you folks, we could not have hand picked a more desirable situation in ‘endorsement world’. 35 years ago I would watch and listen to Doc playing his Gallagher and always thought how great it would be to own a guitar with tone like that! To be counted among the other great Gallagher endorsees such as my hero and fellow North Carolinian Doc Watson, my dear friend and acoustic guitar god Jim Hurst, Steve Kaupfman and many other greats is a real dream come true for us. A Gallagher compilation album featuring the above mentioned as well as others along with the Carter Brothers will be recorded and released this year with some of the tracking being done in our Tree O Studio here outside Nashville in Ridgetop, TN. Google Gallagher Guitars and check it out!

Much Peace and Love To Us All

Danny