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"The guitar is central to popular music. It has an enduring appeal. Why should this be so? Will Hodgkinson, with only an afternoon's experience of bashing on a friend's guitar, wanted to find out. He hoped to teach himself a few chords too. On his journey ... he chats to Bert Jansch ... he talks to Johnny Marr and reclusive folk-guitar legend Davey Graham. He travels to America and visits Roger McGuinn of the Byrds ... meets T. Model Ford, an old Blues man living in Mississippi. With a dawning realisation that his talent is limited, and conscious that his wife and children are bored with his…
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 2006Da Capo Press · 304 pages · 9780306815140
- Paperback · English · 2006Bloomsbury · 304 pages · 9780747577454
- Other · English · 2014Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408855614
- Other · English · 2009Hachette Books · 9780786734634
- Other · English · 2007Da Capo Press · 9780747585640
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