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Traditional Electric Blues

Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Knaggs SSC & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty | 10 mins per example

, its potential as a solo or featured instrument – especially in a band context – blew wide open. A new breed of players, including John Lee Hooker, Hubert Sumlin and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, began to exploit these different possibilities and sounds, which were later built upon further by Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix. What I’m hoping to capture in these examples is a snapshot in time, when people first began

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