A Tallassee author has published a book on former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential nominee Mike Huckabee. Instead of politics, Willie Moseley finds another side to Huckabee — music and a guitar collection.
Moseley has been writing for Vintage Guitar for nearly 34 years and writing books on music for almost as long. He was even a reporter for the Tallassee Tribune for 12 years before retiring. It all served as fodder for connecting with Huckabee to tell the story of Huckabee’s guitar collection.
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