Joltin' Joe

It's pretty tough to make it these days as a guitar player, unless you're willing to do any kind of work you can get your hands on -- from commercial jingles to inane pop ditties, with perhaps the brief (no doubt frustrating) studio gig on some modern Nashville type's dime, where you're asked to play with utter conviction in the space of four bars, and then go on your merry way, union-scale pay in hand. Conventional wisdom has it that the guitar is merely a support instrument in popular music, w...

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