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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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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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Out Rocks Roll Tunes
Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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Art Believe Coffee
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
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
The blues is life itself.
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Blue Itself Life
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
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
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Character Important Unusual
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
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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Driven Process Song
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Band Enough Quitting
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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Genre Hard Single
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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Chords Country Found Guitar People
Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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Hurt Records Water
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
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Film Matter Mirrors

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