Rock music greats like Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix are some of the early influences that caused a young Detroit native named Lemon James to learn to play the guitar. She was a natural, but soon found she didn't like many of the guitars available to her at the time. In 1989, she solved that problem by building her own guitar and doing it exactly as she wanted. The finished product was good enough that she patented the design. In the early '90s, James put together a band called Experienced. She started out appearing where ever there was an open microphone night around the Detroi...