Paul McCartney with his Olson

These vintage photos appeared full page in an accompanying book from Paul’s box set “Flaming Pie “. The photos were taken in the early 90’s by Paul’s wife Linda McCartney.

Mac McAnally with an Olson

Mac McAnally, a five time CMA Musician of the Year Award winner, Producer, and a long time member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band has been seen in the last few years “occasionally” sporting an Olson SJ. Mac has a lot of great guitars and we are honored to see an Olson in his arsenal!

Chet Atkins on an Olson!

Chet Atkins performed on an Olson guitar on a May 1996 broadcast of The Nashville Network’s Prime Time Country show. He played his famous solo acoustic arrangement of Don Maclean’s “Vincent.” Chet borrowed the guitar from Mark Thompson of The Judds for this performance. You can view the performance at the Video Vault.

JT’s Olson on The Simpsons!

One of James Taylor’s Olson guitars appeared (in cartoon form!) on The Simpsons TV show when James made a cameo appearance on that show (also in cartoon form). David Mirkin, writer and executive producer affiliated with the show is a guitarist and Olson owner, and made sure the trademark “O” appeared in James’s cartoon guitar! …

Doug Shane With his Olson

On September 29th 2004, Jim witnessed the flight of SpaceShipOne as it made it’s first attempt at capturing the 10 million dollar Ansari X-Prize. You can read more about the historic flight at Scaled Composites. As Doug’s guest, Jim was able to get a first hand, close-up look at SpaceShipOne and tour Scaled composites where …