Dillion Guitars is managed by Second Income Consultants (S.I.C.) and is owned by Andrea and John Vinci (aka John Dillion) of Cary, NC USA. Since 2014, Dillion Guitars (Dillion USA) have been exclusively manufactured in Vietnam by Inyen Vina Co., LTD located in Hochimenh City, Vietnam. I have a friend who bought a Dillion USA Guitar and it's pretty good. They import branded instruments from Inyen Vina Co., LTD. There's usually a little something in an $800 imported guitar that you can't really get cheaply.ĭillion USA guitars are made in Vietnam. I could be wrong, but that price range (or below) is territory for PRS SE guitars, yamaha guitars made to a high standard with Duncan pickups, mex-made superstrats with duncans and a floyd rose. Some of the guitars might be slightly nicer than that, but why be so evasive about the origin? china, indonesia, maybe some korea? I see it as a sneaky importer bringing in what look to me to be $200 guitars and stating that they're listing for $800-$950 or so. Not saying they can't be great guitars to play, but there are a lot of great tele and strat style and LP style guitars for a lot less than $500 made overseas. The rosewood telecaster looks like a veneer (where's the endgrain the ends? It just looks like brown smudge). The hardware on the guitars is the wilkinson stuff that shows up on a lot of budget guitars, the grain orientation in some of the pictures has runout coming up right in the fingerboard. It may say "made in korea for PRS" or something like that, but I get the feeling that the seller is a little bit slick. The Family Tree band eventually evolved to become The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. And soon thereafter, as luck would have it yet again, John and Cash co-wrote “If You Wanna Get to Heaven,” a song that would become the Daredevils’ first radio hit.Īs a cofounder of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, John can look back at more than four and a half decades of music played, miles traveled, and countless stories of amazing characters and beautiful places. He still follows his muse, writing songs, playing and recording music with the band that he loves.Click to expand.My issue is more simple - a guitar normally says its country of origin in that spot on the peghead. It wasn’t long until Cash was writing his own songs and sitting in with John at his gigs. John performed on Thursday nights at the New Bijou Theatre as John Dillon and Friends. In 1970, Larry Lee asked John to jam with a loose group of musicians and writers who would soon form the band Family Tree, and John brought along Cash. And although Cash didn’t play an instrument he was interested in the music scene and asked John to help him learn harmonica. Shortly after leaving college, with a few original songs under his belt and just enough skill on guitar to land a gig here and there, John played around Springfield as a solo musician and songwriter. He met friend and future partner, Steve Cash, in 1969. He resolved to follow his muse wherever she led him and, as luck would have it, this turned out to be Springfield, Missouri when in 1965 he was accepted into Drury University, graduating with degrees in philosophy and theater. John was born and raised in the sleepy Arkansas Delta town of Stuttgart. He learned guitar and country harmonica from his mother when he was 12 years old. John bought his first electric guitar-a Silvertone from Sears Roebuck and Company-when he was sixteen and made the decision, then and there, that music was his calling.