Six Strings / Six Guitars

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonRichard Thompson had been, in the words of a friend working on the Meltdown team, "like a kid in a candy store all day" about this gig.No wonder. Including the festival curator, there were half a dozen guitar gods up on stage (without even counting Albert White and Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, who had opened the night with a great blues set). The older three could justifiably be called archetypes – Dennis Coffey, whose wah-wah stylings graced Motown hits and who tr...

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