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“It's like the guitar is built for 10 fingers and two hands and he's got three hands and 17 fingers”: He was called “The Humbler,” and regarded as one of the world's greatest under-the-radar guitarists – watch him solo with a beer bottle and a towel

Steve Vai once said that the guitarist in question, Danny Gatton, “comes closer than anyone else to being the best guitar player that ever lived”

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"The reason I never made it big is because I never cared whether I made it big or not": The life and death of the guitarist’s guitarist, Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan inspired Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa, but suffered a life of addiction and died a bluesman’s death

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“I view everything from the pick to the speaker as my instrument”: Meet John Frusciante favorite Anthony Pirog – the boundary breaking guitarist who’s jamming jazz, punk and fusion with Fugazi’s rhythm section

The D.C. virtuoso has joined forces with his heroes as The Messthetics

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“When I listened to Danny Gatton’s mind-boggling licks, I realized that they depended on a different technique. It just wasn’t possible to flatpick most of them”: Josh Smith presents a crash course in hybrid picking and fast-paced jump blues soloing

Smith’s guide to modern blues soloing takes things up a notch, analyzing the blistering technique of jump blues god Danny Gatton

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10 guitar heroes who should be much better known, by Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa's definitive guide to the guitar heroes who don't get the credit they deserve

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Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy: 10 guitarists who shaped my sound

Mark Tremonti's six-string partner-in-crime reveals the solo that made him realize that technique wasn't everything, and the player he thinks is one of the guitar's “best-kept secrets”

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5 ways to improve your hybrid picking technique

Make like Brad Paisley, Danny Gatton, Brent Mason et al and combine pick n' fingers to play both bass and melody, skip strings effortlessly, and add a little country sizzle to your playing

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Joe Bonamassa: "I've sold nine million records. The detractors can say what they want"

Joe Bonamassa on being comfortable with the haters, mentoring the blues greats of the future, and the biggest guitar nerd he's ever met

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Learn the licks of 6 guitarists who defined country guitar playing

Featuring Danny Gatton, Eldon Shamblin, Roy Clark, Chet Atkins, Jimmy Bryant and the inimitable Hank Garland, welcome to cowboy bootcamp for country guitar

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Q&A: Mark Wenner looks back on 50 years of The Nighthawks

PITTSBURGH — Mark Wenner discovered the blues while he was in high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and started messing around with harmonica, in part, because of a 1965 recording of “Born in Chicago” by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

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