Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

Among his many honors Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lester William Polsfuss (June 9 1915 – August 13 2009)—known as Les Paul—was an American jazz country and blues guitarist songwriter luthier and inventor.