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Buck Owens, Roy Clark, and the Hee Haw gang along with special guest Johnny Cash

A Musical Flashback

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Did you ever have one of those moments when you realize that you’d accomplished a lifelong goal without realizing it? I had one last night. I was getting ready to go out to a rehearsal and had an old rerun of Hee Haw on the TV. This is important because[…]

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a collection of Hello Kity guitars

The Toybox: Miguel

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I like distinctive instruments. Not just because they’re distinctive, although I have always been attracted to the unusual. They also make fantastic ice-breakers. People who may be reluctant to come up and talk to me will often comment on an instrument, and the conversation can flow freely after that. Why[…]

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Album Review – Privateering by Mark Knopfler

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People who say that Mark Knopfler‘s post-Straits work has been bogged down in slow and overly-Celtic sounds clearly have not listened to Privateering (2012, Mercury). While it does contain a number of his Irish-flavored pieces, you’ll also find slide blues and tracks that seem like they came off of some[…]

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