Goodall Ebony CJ Guitar

About Goodall Guitars

Goodall Guitars are built in Sparta, Tennessee by a father-son shop — James Goodall, his son Luke, and Jean Goodall running the business side. James built his first guitar in San Diego in 1972 as a self-taught seascape painter who traded an oil painting for the tonewoods (this was before guitar-construction books existed; he learned from scratch). Fifty-plus years later, the operation has stayed small and family-run, building hand-made instruments across thirteen body sizes and five series. The Goodall design language favors restrained appointments — the woods carry the visual weight. James Taylor has played a Goodall as his primary acoustic for decades; the brand's reputation lives in player-to-player word-of-mouth more than marketing. …

About Guitar Gallery

Guitar Gallery is a Nashville-based online dealer specializing in fine handmade acoustic guitars, run out of South Nashville's Berry Hill music district. Their authorized-builder roster has the breadth few US shops match — Bashkin, Beauregard, Borges, Froggy Bottom, Greven, Lowden, McPherson, Olson, Osthoff, Petros, Sexauer, Tippin, Wingert, and dozens more, alongside a deep tail of vintage and used inventory from harder-to-find names like Traugott, Sobell, Klein, Wayne Henderson, and Dudenbostel. Every listing carries a consistent in-house recording — Shure SM81 or Neumann TLM 102 microphone, no EQ, no effects, mic placement held constant — so buyers can compare what each specific guitar actually sounds like rather than how it was captured. The active shelf rotates broadly across that roster rather than running deep on any single builder; the catalog as a whole is wider than it is tall.

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