Posts by Matt Kelley

Here’s how it went down. Back in 1999, I bought an old 1964 Gibson B-25 acoustic guitar from a tall Tennessean named Bucky Baxter. I fell for Bucky and his playing when I would go see all of these Bob [...]

On January 28, 2019, we chatted with Dirk Rowley and WANE-TV about TV advertising surrounding the Super Bowl, and specifically local spots that have left a lasting impression. Humor is fine, but we were thinking of work that made not just an impression, but a positive impact on our community, as so much of our favorite work has.

Rayland and I basically grew up together.I mean, we have the same dad. His genetically, mine symbolically.I bought the lucky guitar from pop—Bucky Baxter. This would be back in 1999, twenty damn years ago.

This past January, Carson Boxberger LLP became known as, simply, Carson LLP. One Lucky Guitar is proud to have served as brand and marketing consultants to our good friends at Carson since 2005. Five years ago, we partnered with Carson [...]

2018 is upon us and the music has kicked off at The B-Side. On January 25th, the Tim Easton performed his—and our—first concert of the year, with a sold-out, boot-stompin’, harp-blowin’ set of gritty Americana fare. One February 5th, we held our [...]

This winter, we were thrilled to be able to serve Changing the Face of Beauty as the organization grows its network of agencies and brands that feature people of all abilities in their advertising and marketing. To tell the story [...]

September marks 13 at 13—OLG’s thirteenth anniversary at 1301 Lafayette Street, here on the southeast side of downtown. We call it Bricktown. And we’re happy to also call it home. All the deets on what we’re doing for Lucky 13, [...]

Best Album Ever, Tonight is a new monthly series—part of our celebration of 13 years at 1301 Lafayette—at The B-Side. Once a month, we’re going to host a listening party, for the best album ever. Of course, the best best-ever lists [...]

A couple years ago, some old friends and I got back together and started doing this thing we used to do, again. “This thing” being writing songs and performing as The Legendary Trainhoppers. We were originally active from 2005–2007, a [...]

So I was going to write a Dial post to end all others about Middle Waves; had been thinking about it for several weeks. But those several weeks became consumed by…cookin’ with Middle Waves, of all things. So, here are [...]