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10 mins per example

Tutor: Richard Barrett | Gear used: Knaggs SSC, Laney Cub Super 12

Blues For Today

on how the blues lives on in today’s music, with the torch being carried by players such as Gary Clark Jr, whose track was one of the main inspirations behind my solo. It’s not too hard to trace the blues lineage, with the riff-based beginning including

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