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When Less Is More

his approach to guitar playing, alt-country rocker Jason Isbell — never at a loss for an interesting and unique viewpoint — sums it up thusly: “To me, there are two fundamental types of creative people. There are people who paint; they start out with a blank canvas to which they add things. Then there are sculptors; they start out with a block of stone and they chip away at it. They reduce as they go. I think

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