When it comes to guitars and publishing, Beau Allen Pacheco knows the business. He started out as a columnist with the prestigious Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s best read daily newspaper, and then gravitated to magazines where he was editor of two magazines with Hachette-Filipacchi publishing, one of the world’s largest publishing houses. But before he became a journalist, he was a strikingly successful entertainer/musician for twenty years and worked with such artists as Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Righteous Brothers, Jerry Jeff Walker, Roseanne Cash and many more. His most prized possession in his guitar collection is a special dreadnaught made for him by Mike Voltz, former guitar maker for Chet Atkins and now product manager for Gibson Acoustic Guitars in Nashville.