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Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.

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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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Audience Curtain Customer Open Playing Realized
Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder?
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Games Play Water
When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions.
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Dad Guitar Kings
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
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Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Helping Particular Take Time
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
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Blues Country Embracing English Great
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won’t vanish, but let’s face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
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Media Past Seemingly Way
No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Ahead Miles No Plugged Plugging
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.
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Country Night Promoted Spring Well
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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Challenges Real White
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life

Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.

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