One night in November, the Kernal, a.k.a. Joe Garner, was teaching his fourteen-year-old niece some basic guitar chords over FaceTime. She was a quick learner, memorizing the correct finger positions. But Garner encouraged her to run her fingers up the strings and “do something weird.” That’s where you find your uniqueness, he told her. That’s where the good stuff comes from. “It’s scary when people think you’re weird,” he tells me later over a
