Episode 74 of No Guitar is Safe featuring the mind-meltingly awesome Mimi Fox is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com.

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No guitar is safe. So we're up at Mee-Me-Fox's house, not far from the water, up in the North Bay, just north of San Francisco, and the mics have just been turned

on and she's showing me this little blues called Getaway Blues, and she's playing licks

like this one! Yeah, this is really just a sound check right here.

Well, I think we'll actually play the blues at the very end of this episode.

You're going to hear it.

But wow, yeah, Mimi Fox is a total mind-melter.

She has dedicated her life to bringing music out of a fretboard in six strings.

Right there, you're hearing her tailor steel string, which she'll play definitely throughout a lot of

this episode.

But she also picks up her Mimi Fox's signature model, Heritage Hollow Body, awesome machine.

Let's check out Mimi playing one of my favorite standards, Lady Bird.

Here's the intro.

I think that's from her standards album. But you know what?

Just before we get this episode started, I'm feeling a little reflective tonight.

So Mimi, give me some reflective music.

Music. music.

This is her title track to the album that she did on Steve Vye's label,

one of her albums, on the favored nations label,

called Perpetually Hip. It's kind of somber because, you know, I'm just thinking out loud here,

today, as some of you might have seen on Facebook as I posted, I've declared this Michael Melinda day because Mike Melinda, my editor-in-chief at guitar player has, after 21 years at the helm, today is his last day

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