I am a world traveler and master guitar player, but nothing has ever impressed me like this $35-raw-materials, mass-produced-in-China, signed-by-a-QVC-hack instrument.

ESTEBAN, the guitarist who looks like Zorro in his black, flat-brimmed bolero hat and super-dark wraparound shades, is what bluesmen call a “back door man.” Nothing’s ever come ea… ...

For a while there, it seemed like its only product was the Esteban guitar set — there he was at night, and the next afternoon, over and over, strumming and strumming and strumming.