Bourgeois Banjo Killer: The Bluegrass Guitar With The Aggro-Metal Nickname
Tim Joyce and Tony Polecastro of Ols Town School Music Store are pretty infatuated with their Dana Bourgeois Banjo Killer, and with good reason. The super rare tonewoods - bear claw sitka spruce top and flamed mahogany back and sides - and slope-D shoulder profile combine to make a guitar with an extremely strong midrange presence and huge projection.
The guitar was dubbed the "Banjo Killer" by bluegrass flatpicking virtuoso Bryan Sutton, who named it thus because it's what he used to murder Béla Fleck.
TIM JOYCE: Hi. I'm Tim and this is Tony, and we're at the Old Town School of Folk Music and today we're going to talk about Bourgeois Guitars made by Dana Bourgeois in Lewiston, Maine.
You know that whichever a Bourgeois guitar you're getting that Dana Bourgeois himself has done some work on it. He's got a lot of people working for him. They all do exceptional work but he says that he touches every single guitar that goes out of the shop. He might put on the bridge, he might fit the nut but he says he gets his hands on and in every single guitar that comes out of there.
The next guitar we're going to take a look at is the Banjo Killer it's called. It's a sloped dreadnought shape, it's got a bear claw Sitka top and flame mahogany back and sides, and flame mahogany is actually a very rare wood so this is quite a special guitar.
[TONY POLECASTRO PERFORMS WITH THE BOURGEOIS BANJO KILLER GUITAR]
TONY POLECASTRO: Yeah. Let's do another song.
[TONY POLECASTRO PERFORMS ANOTHER SONG WITH THE BOURGEOIS BANJO KILLER GUITAR]
TONY POLECASTRO: [LAUGHS]
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