” C6TH, E9TH or both?” he inquired, and I could already tell I was in way over my head. As soon as I told him I was looking for a set of steel strings, the old man perked up. Upon my first visit I took in the air, tainted with the chemical aroma of hair product, as a skinny, elderly man came out from the back and asked how he could help me.
Welton’s was a small, quirky store that shared its quarters with a wig shop/hair salon run by his wife, and it featured a few glass counters, about twelve guitars wrapped in plastic (for that cozy, backwoods, Invasion of the Body Snatchers ambiance), and some miscellaneous cases which, I would soon find out, housed lap steels and pedal steels. Willbern “Spider Webb” Welten owned a music store in Sparta, IL (also noteworthy as the film-shooting locale for some scenes from the original movie version of In The Heat Of The Night). I chipped away at it without much luck, until I met Spider Webb Welten.
My sound was thin, and noisy, and out of tune…nothing like what I was hearing in my head. I plunked away on my steel, but I was missing something.
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