A junction for music: Alachua music store hangs on amid the industry’s national decline
The walls are covered with guitars, banjos, violins, and other string instruments. The air has an earthy and musky scent as if the wooden instruments packed into the space were handmade this morning. Bluegrass stars of the ‘50s and beyond are memorialized by the newspaper clippings and old posters on display.The slight tune of a banjo fades into the background music as the afternoon sun beams down through the window, highlighting every gold fleck on the headstocks of the guitars.Leon Barrows ope...