{"id":2277942,"date":"2026-02-11T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2277942"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:04:14","slug":"peter-lesser-new-book-is-live-at-mccabes-guitar-shop-santa-monicas-legendary-music-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/peter-lesser-new-book-is-live-at-mccabes-guitar-shop-santa-monicas-legendary-music-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Lesser&#8217; new book is &#8220;Live at McCabe&#8217;s Guitar Shop: Santa Monica\u2019s Legendary Music Venue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Live at McCabe&#8217;s Guitar Shop: Santa Monica\u2019s Legendary Music Venue&#8221; is a new book from <b>Peter Lesser<\/b>, the former executive director of The\u00a0Egg. McCabe\u2019s has been hosting icons and legends of folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word and world music since 1969. <\/p>\n<p>A decade after\u00a0Gerald McCabe opened up a guitar repair shop in Santa Monica, California, legendary folk musicians Elizabeth Cotten and Mike Seeger came looking for a way to earn money to get back home. Their inaugural performance kickstarted a concert series that has featured some of the world\u2019s finest musicians\u2015including Doc Watson, Jackson Browne, Bill Monroe and Linda Ronstadt\u2015in one of the most intimate performance spaces on the West Coast.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Lesser presents stories from artists like Rosanne Cash, Taj Mahal, Lucinda Williams, Arlo Guthrie and many more as they look back on their experiences at McCabe\u2019s. From picking up a new hobby to serendipitous meetings of future bandmates, there was never a dull moment in the shop.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '650821457076053',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wamc.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Live at McCabe&#8217;s Guitar Shop: Santa Monica\u2019s Legendary Music Venue&#8221; is a new book from Peter Lesser, the former executive director of The\u00a0Egg. McCabe\u2019s has been hosting icons and legends of folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word and world music since 1969. A decade after\u00a0Gerald McCabe opened up a guitar repair shop in Santa Monica, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2277944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Peter-Lesser-new-book-is-Live-at-McCabes-Guitar-Shop.com2Fe32F632F3dfb3b554f6f9874e3eabcdd16822Flive-at.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277946,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277942\/revisions\/2277946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}