Chris Darrow: A Gift Unheralded

By: Jim Welte Chris Darrow by Steve Cahill Ben Harper first started playing guitar when he was 18, spending countless hours toiling away at the Folk Music Center, the music shop owned by his grandparents in his hometown of Claremont, California. Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix had dominated much of Harper's musical edification to that point, and he had been playing a ton of acoustic blues music, particularly Robert Johnson. But there was another artist, someone right in Harper's back...

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