It all began when a thirteen-to-be year old wanted a guitar for her birthday.  An electric guitar with an amp.  Mom took her to the music store, and changed her life forever.  She had a lesson, went home and almost immediately took all the screws, springs, strings and other things off the instrument.  Her second guitar lesson was putting the thing back together.  Two years later she was offered a job at the same music store, Tempo Music Center, and worked there for nearly a decade.  During that time she apprenticed for nine months under David Simmons, Simmons Guitars, to learn the trade of Lutherie (the building and repair of musical instruments).  At age 18 she started her own business, and five years later went to work for Simmons Guitars building high end electric basses for two years.  In April of 2010, Autumn Greenfield opened The Guitar Mama, her own retail and repair shop in West Asheville.  Stop by soon!