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When a successful session musician discussed the creation of a new group and was told it might go down like a big lead balloon, he didn’t turn back. He went to form what may be the most successful band of all time. Who was it? Read on.
Cookham, Clewer, Heston and Epsom are classic examples of [...]
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Easy to find, just look in any music shop, web site or even ebay or craigs list. But suppose you had some money to spend and were looking to start a collection? What would be your idea of the most money anyone should spend on a guitar? You may be surprised.
How do you make something [...]
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No, this isn’t the story of Blues music on America’s highest mountain, this is the story of influential blues musician McKinley Morganfield, a virtuoso of slide guitar.
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Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar because bottlenecks were the first materials used to produce the effect. Normally a guitar player varies the pitch of notes by [...]
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According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was ‘the most important blues singer who ever lived’. He is number five in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery.
Almost the only concrete things we have of Robert Johnson are his recordings, made in 1936 [...]
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