ELKTON — Country stars Eric Church and Miranda Lambert use them. So do Grammy-winning Christian music artist Chris Tomlin and fleet-fingered acoustic guitar virtuosos Phil Keaggy and Richard Thompson.
That goes ditto for rockers Melissa Etheridge and John Paul Jones, the bassist most known for performing and recording with Led Zeppelin.
And that’s just the short list of the famous musicians who use and endorse Elixir strings — made solely in Cecil County and sold globally for the past 29 years, ever since W. L. Gore & Associates pioneered a coating that greatly extends the tonal life of strings and enhances their playability…