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Realising I’d never be a top guitarist.

Realising I’d never be a top guitarist.

ByPaul Merry September 28, 2018

It’s indisputable, I’d guess, that most top lead guitarists are people who are good with their hands, whose fingers exude dexterity. They excel at fixing and making things, DIY, working with wood, constructing models, tinkering with car engines, that sort of thing. That was never me. As a kid in the 1950s, when model airplanes…

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The day I discovered the blues.

The day I discovered the blues.

ByPaul Merry September 14, 2018

How ironic is it that white kids living in England in the mid-1960s were more exposed to black American blues than your average white teenager in the United States? Without knowing it, in 1950s England, I’d heard the blues of Lead Belly, Leroy Carr and Little Son Joe, on national TV and radio, through the…

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