While employees at the Nashville headquarters of Gibson Guitars were ordered to stay home starting last week, the company is forcing more than 300 factory workers to continue reporting for duty ...
Image via Gibson’s Facebook page. On Mar. 20, Gibson closed all of its U.S.-based operations, including its headquarters in Nashville, due to coronavirus concerns. According to a press release, Gibson ...
For decades, Gibson built its acoustic guitars at a factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Artists such as B.B. King and Johnny Cash made the instruments famous. Mandolin designer Orville Gibson opened the ...
KALAMAZOO, MI -- A fire at the former Gibson guitar factory site in Kalamazoo was quickly extinguished, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said. Firefighters responded around 2 p.m. on ...
KALAMAZOO — People who don't often make it to Kalamazoo's north side could be excused if they're puzzled by the sounds of rock ballads echoing inside the former Gibson Guitar Co. factory. It's not the ...
If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “Instrument of the People” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which was discovered sometime in the fall of ...
Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories about Kalamazoo's guitar-making heritage. Go here to read the full series. KALAMAZOO, MI-- Anyone strumming a Gibson guitar made before 1975 is ...
Future redevelopment of the Gibson Guitar Factory cleared a hurdle Tuesday when a Downtown board agreed to let new owners keep a tax benefit. New owners don’t know yet what they’ll do with the ...
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, ...
Kalamazoo — People who don’t often make it to Kalamazoo’s north side could be excused if they’re puzzled by the sounds of rock ballads echoing inside the former Gibson Guitar Co. factory. It’s not the ...