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This is a hard one as there are so many to choose from. I will start with my favorites and what I like about them. a. Roy Buchanan: Roy was my biggest influence when I started playing guitar at the age of 13. I used to watch Roy play all the time and he taught…

There are so many tones that I like and I’ll try to list some of the players and instruments they used. These are not in any particular order. Chet Atkins recordings on many of his instruments using several Gretsch Model guitars. Duane Eddy recordings using his famous 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 with DeArmond single…

There are so many artists that I like and I’ll try to name a few and some other facts. For years I had been trying to find the musician who did the solo in “Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starlighters. I was told that it was Billy Butler who also did “Honky Tonk”…