Mule Bus Stop #2: Tyler Bryant, Nashville

Mule Bus Stop #2: Tyler Bryant, Nashville

Well that was fun.  Tyler Bryant, aka the Pied Piper of Nashville, playing at th eMule Bus right before he melted our faces at The Basement East.  Imagine being in line an hour early to see someone you traveled 200...
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Kelly Joe Phelps

Kelly Joe Phelps changed my life three times.  I was at guitar making school, and was only into hard rock. I didn’t know you could play guitar without a pick until I read about him in a magazine, a review for Tap the Red...
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International orders are open

International orders are open

In limited amounts each month. I’ve always wanted everyone to have a Mule who wanted one. When covid messed up logistics this made international shipping even more tenuous while orders were sky rocketing. We are a small...
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Charity auction winner

Adam B. Wins the Huss and Dalton/mule auction with a bid of $7200. Thanks to everyone who threw their hat in the ring to support kids learning music. 

-Matt ...
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Waitlist reopens May 28th

I'll be busy at the Namm show the following weekend so the waitlist will reopen this coming Saturday at 11 AM EST.  Matt...
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Muletide Christmas: Charlie Hunter

When a Charlie Hunter from every timeline shows up to play "Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and one of them is playing a Muelcaster.... ...
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Mavis #0001

Mavis #0001

Production Mavis #0001, for Mr. Momoa. An electric semi hollow body archtop resonator made from torrefied Michigan Maple. Back arched by violin maker friend Chris Jacoby who really took it up a notch. The violin approach to...
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Not a slide guitar

Not a slide guitar

Who plays these resonator guitars? After 1700 instruments I can tell you 8/10 customers have never owned a resonator guitar before. I’m tremendously proud of that. You can do anything with them, it’s just a tool. They aren’t...
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How to Choose Strings for Your Resonator Guitar

How to Choose Strings for Your Resonator Guitar

There are a thousand different strings you could use for your resonator. Everything from cryogenically treated strings to strings shot into space to strings blessed by a shaman in a rainforest in South America. Unfortunately...
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Mule Radio - July 26

Mule Radio - July 26

These instruments are music tools and people have been putting them to work.  Videos of people using these guitars to inspire and push their playing is my greatest joy.   Thats why I started Mule and why we continue to do...
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Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind

Zach came up to Mule HQ for the tailgate before Jason Isbell's show. Zach has a Mule and the thing with customers is that a lot of times they end up being friends. "In Grateful Cooperative Labor" is on the certificates that...
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MODEST MAVIS

MODEST MAVIS

The reason we do this is to get people inspirational musical tools. Seeing what comes out of combining our work with yours is our greatest joy. 

The Modest Mavis is the work horse version of our standard Mavis....
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The Mule Bus

The Mule Bus

The Mule Bus has been wrapped and we are getting along just fine. Just need to finish the flooring, install some rear seats and bed and then we are ready to take this show on the road. Mule has always been about what has...
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At Mule HQ: Jeffrey Foucault

At Mule HQ: Jeffrey Foucault

Last week I found myself at Mule HQ five feet away from Jeff as I filmed him play this song he wrote for Kelly Joe Phelps- the man responsible for inspiring these guitars and my friendship with Jeff. About 15 years ago I...
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Bourbon and Beyond Festival Day 2

Bourbon and Beyond Festival Day 2

My wife dropped me off at the staff entrance to the festival. A man got out of the van in front of me with a lunchbox and stopped and turned to wave to his dad. His dad was probably 70, the man was probably around my age and...
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Charlie Hunter Mule

Charlie Hunter Mule

Can I geek out a bit? If it wasn’t for Charlie Hunter and then Kelly Joe Phelps I wouldn’t be making steel resos and casters, 700 people wouldn’t be making music on them and you and I wouldn’t know each other. ⁣

I got...
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John Smith - “River”

John Smith - “River”

John Smith playing “River” on his Mavis  merry Muletide! https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044217...
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Namm

Namm

NAMM. I love it. We don’t have sales guys in bowling shirts saying the same things like they are new things. It’s me and Pops Mule. My dad doesn’t even play guitar. But I brought him to my first NAMM and he loved it too. Last...
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Bourbon and Beyond

Bourbon and Beyond

The Mule Bus is going to load up and head out to @bourbonandbeyond festival in Louisville middle of September. There’s going to be a Mule player there almost every day with The Killers, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars. Also…...
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Pink Posencaster

Pink Posencaster

25.5” baritone, dirty pink. Enough said.  ...
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