Jimmie Dale resonates when he sings about writing love songs when he should have just strummed his guitar.

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Elliott's heartbroken, introspective storytelling is set against delicately strummed guitar riffs as he meditates on love and loss.

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Now, imagine how groovy Happy Birthday sounds when strummed on that island instrument.

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Behind her a clean-shaven guy in his late-twenties who was wearing an expensive-looking vintage work shirt strummed an acoustic guitar.

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The duo strummed through the song, Bon Jovi on guitar and Buffett on ukulele, trading verses as the delighted crowd looked on.

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If it's the sonic equivalent of darkness and what may be lurking there, then Gibson's fragile voice and plaintively strummed guitar soon emerge as a flicker of light.

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He strummed up the neck with a dynamic crescendo.

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Humberto Flores strummed a vihuela, or five-string guitar.

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