Modern Luthier
By Landon Cooper
Samantha Marshall fell in love with music when she heard Jackie Lee’s guitar solo in Ozzy Osbourne’s “Shot In The Dark,” at the age of fifteen. Since then, music has been an instrumental factor in her life. Samantha began fixing and building her own guitars, soon gaining a reputation in the area of Hickory and even out to Greensboro, North Carolina.
Samantha never felt like the person she appeared to be was the person she truly was. After coming out, her outgoing personality began to shine and her career at Larry’s Music and Sound was busier than it had ever been. Her goal is to put the very best guitar back into her customers hands so that they can find catharsis in their own sounds, the way that she had.
Samantha Marshall, a self-taught luthier (someone who repairs guitars), poses in front of her work station in the basement of Larry’s Music and Sound Store.
Samantha carries a customer’s guitar back to her work station.
After finishing the pickup replacements on a customers guitar, Samantha laughs at a joke made by her coworker Scott while she cleans up her work station.
Samantha begins to replace the pickups on the guitar so that it can be used with an amplifier.
Samantha screws the neck of the guitar off so that she can reach the pickups inside the guitar through the hole of the body.
After a long day of work, Samantha unwinds with a jam session. She typically plays heavy metal, a style that she fell in love with when she first her Ozzy Osbournes “Shot In The Dark” at the age of 15.
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