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16. CLIFFS OF DOVER

Eric Johnson

GUITARIST: ERIC JOHNSON (1990)

Heavenly tones from the Texan great.

This instrumental won Eric Johnson,” Joe Bonamassa told us in 2015. “It was ‘Cliffs of Dover,’ and it was just terrifyingly good guitar playing. I wasn’t even sure if it was real! Then I saw him live, and his tones were the best I’d ever heard. I wondered how this guy was getting all of these sounds out of his Strat. I’d never seen anybody have such a forward-thinking rig like that.”

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