“Collectively, these relics sound like the contents of a small and somewhat eccentric museum of Canadiana. And so they are—except that this museum makes sweet music when it’s strummed, because this repository of true-north iconography is an acoustic guitar.’— Georgia Straight   “ The Voyageur was a true labour of love for this writer, radio host and producer, involving some science, some alchemy, and a whole lot of hard work.  Six String Nation , the book chronicling the Voyageur (and Taylor' s) journey from an initial idea to a very tangible reality, was published just over two months ago. It paints a vivid picture of Canada through stunning portraiture and insightful interviews with a wide range of people who contributed to the project, or who had the opportunity to try their hand at playing the Voyageur once it was finally finished.”— Pique News Magazine “Illustrated with documentary photos and gorgeous portraits of the people that the Voyageur has encountered,  Six String Nation  chronicles the journey of one special guitar, from conception through construction to the road it still travels across our land.”— Whistler Question “ Jowi Taylor 's book, his guitar, and his remarkable quest to bring an object ‘made from hockey sticks and canoe paddles and grain elevators and baseboards and boats and antlers,’ to as many Canadians as possible, to have it played by as many Canadians as possible, are a uniquely Canadian endeavor, a synthesis of all the different ways there are to ‘be Canadian.’”— Boing Boing   “Our single-minded concept of ‘a real American’ excludes our neighbors to the south, and the north. Many Canadians are more circumspect over just what ‘Canadian-ness’ is. Canadians tend to look more critically at the genocide of ‘first nations’ people, at identity, at sovereign populations and policies. From this tentative nationalism comes  Six String Nation , an idea, a book, a website and one composite guitar making its way across  Canada .”— New Hampshire Public Radio "Jowi Taylor, a  Toronto  broadcaster…set out in 1995 to create an object more quintessentially Canadian then hockey, Tim Horton’s doughnuts, insulin, the CN Tower and  Lake Louise . Eleven years later, he was able to hold it in his hands – an acoustic guitar made from 64 bits of Canadian history.”— Vancouver Sun “The guitar…has been photographed in the hands of Canadian celebrities, politicians and everyday people from coast to coast, many of whose pictures are included in Taylor’s new account of the guitar’s creation.”— Globe and Mail “ Six String Nation is a reminder of the power and position of music in Canada today. Putting everything else aside, maybe it is music that holds this nation together, the magic of singing and playing that unites us: Acadians, Quebecois, Albertans, First Nations Peoples, Metis, Ontarians, men, women, professional musicians and amateur pickers alike.”— Owen Sound Times “Anyone struck with the sentimental, lunatic, and brilliant inspiration to gather up physical fragments of iconic Canadiana and then have them somehow woven into the undulating, resonant carapace of a guitar would have no choice but to act on the impulse. Jowi Taylor is that person and, along with a merry band of quixotic fellow travelers, he has engineered a small miracle: a guitar that's also a country that's also a journey that's also story that's also the past that's also the future that's also the here and now. All of it is beautifully documented in Six String Nation , a marvelous and optimistic and quintessentially Canadian book.”—Bill Richardson