Muriel Anderson: "Night Lights"

[Queequeg]

Caution: Harp Guitar content
(Video begins at 26 seconds.)
Recorded November 2025.

[William2]

That's a beautiful piece of music. That guitar is a real orchestra on its own. I wonder if you master it if you ever go back to a 6-string instrument. I know little about the harp guitar. But there was a luthier in Milwaukee back in the 80s named Robert Pascoe who built them and he built me a J.C. Hoffmann baroque lute. I remember reading an interview a long time ago with Muriel. She must have lived near Chet Atkins. One day he called her to come over. She thought she was going to get to play with him. But he thought since she was short, she could help him get some chickens out from under his house LOL.

[Queequeg]

That's a beautiful piece of music. That guitar is a real orchestra on its own. I wonder if you master it if you ever go back to a 6-string instrument. I know little about the harp guitar. But there was a luthier in Milwaukee back in the 80s named Robert Pascoe who built them and he built me a J.C. Hoffmann baroque lute. I remember reading an interview a long time ago with Muriel. She must have lived near Chet Atkins. One day he called her to come over. She thought she was going to get to play with him. But he thought since she was short, she could help him get some chickens out from under his house LOL.

Yes, Muriel Anderson lives in Nashville now (where Chad Atkins lived) although she grew up outside of Chicago.
She recorded a live performance of Sleigh Ride this afternoon at her parents' home where she grew up, on account of the storm this week.
I have heard her tell that story about the chicken shack. Humble beginnings to her association with him.
And yes, she's still primarily plays a six string nylon string guitar.