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It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
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Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Bigger Radio Tabletop
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
I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
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Home People Prepare Restaurants
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
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
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
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
We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
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Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
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Lying People White
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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Causes Ems Ugly
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
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
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single

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