Bourgeois Guitars

Dana Bourgeois's name was famous in the boutique world before this shop existed. He apprenticed under Eric Schoenberg in the 1970s, voiced tops for Schoenberg and later for Pantheon, and earned a reputation as the guy whose ear could make a guitar sing. By the time he opened a shop under his own name in the mid-1990s, players were already lining up.

Dana Bourgeois's name was famous in the boutique world before this shop existed. He apprenticed under Eric Schoenberg in the 1970s, voiced tops for Schoenberg and later for Pantheon, and earned a reputation as the guy whose ear could make a guitar sing. By the time he opened a shop under his own name in the mid-1990s, players were already lining up. The Bourgeois sound is hard to put in words and easy to recognize. Bryan Sutton plays them. Tony Rice played one near the end of his life.