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【Guitar Photo Exhibition That Pierces the Soul Makes a Permanent Home in Miami! Get Pierced by the Smile of Sister Rosetta Tharpe at the Gibson Gallery】 Pouring a glass of cheap bourbon in the dead of night, dropping the needle onto an old record. The scent of warm amplifier vacuum tubes and a slightly dusty blues melody—this alone should have completed a man's night. But a piece of news arriving all the way from Miami has set my nearly withered heart ablaze. The prestigious Gibson is opening a permanent art gallery inside "Gibson Garage Miami" on September 10, 2026. Titled 'Amplified: Icons Of Music Through The Lens', the inaugural exhibition will feature over 30 iconic photographs capturing music legends through the lens. Released as a symbol of this is a shot of Sister Rosetta Tharpe taken in 1957. It's a picture of her grinning ear-to-ear, cradling a Gibson SG... no, that white, three-pickup beloved machine known back then as a Les Paul Custom. Honestly, the moment I saw this photo alone in my room late at night, I accidentally dropped my glass and stained the carpet with booze. If my wife finds out, it's grounds for her yelling, "What are you doing alone in the middle of the night again?", but I'd love to drown out even that angry voice with her distortion-laced gospel blues. …