Vieux's late father, Ali Farka Toure, was celebrated as an African bluesman, but his guitar playing had a kind of mystic restraint.
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As an infant, he played baby Jesus in his local Nativity play, and as a teen, he would strum his guitar playing gospel songs for his church youth group.
Luther Perkins and his electric guitar playing are also indispensable elements of what makes this an amazing song.
His frantic guitar-playing set the pace for the others to match.
Although he was not a household name, Johnson was considered one of the most influential guitarists for his signature choppy guitar playing style - thought to have been one of the major influences for British punk rock.
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Last year - thirty years on - following a lengthy rehabilitation, he made a number of appearances at festivals, with his son Joe playing the guitar.
Don and I were working with Bob Dylan on his Under the Red Sky album at that time, and he'd brought this slide guitar-playing pal of his, George Harrison, into the studio to play a few licks one day.
The red-headed Brit whipped the crowd of 2, 000-plus into a frenzy with his soaring vocals, spitfire flow and vigorous guitar playing so vigorous, in fact, that he broke one of his guitar strings.
Clapton fans who want his blistering guitar work will have to revisit his back catalog, but his playing on "Old Sock, " rich with tasty little asides, is impeccable.
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He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.
The need for totality that brings pages about playing the guitar, about drinking tea, about wearing his Doc Martens and listening to his Walkman, about how his brother, Yngve, has always thought the music of Queen unfairly underestimated, about the name of the band that he later formed with his brother (named, rather wonderfully, Kafkatrakterne), also brings superb, lingering, celestial passages, like the one in which Knausgaard cannot sleep, and paces his apartment.
Never a guitar virtuoso (at least not in the commonly understood "musical" sense of the word), his playing has always been intrinsically in service to his band and its songs.
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