you could check out Turnstone Guitars, John Case, Tony Zemaitis maybe try for interview with Bill Nelson while his health still allows and do a feature on his collection?
also - even if your site is hosted on wordpress.com you can still choose another cookie management plugin and switch off the default WP one - glad i stumbled across this post because im just having a scan through a bunch of my own sites and working out which plugin i want to go for now to incorporate the DECLINE option ๐