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Check this kid out… Only eight years old! Incredible. Thanks to GG reader Pablo Levinas for pointing me in this kid’s direction. Just like Sungha Jung, Lucciano is a musical prodigy. Can you imaging how he’ll be playing once he’s a grown-up? It’s scary to imagine. Hopefully he’ll not be exploited and turn into burned [...]

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I was looking for some videos of a local band here in Northern California, called Big Rain on YouTube, and they did a cover of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” in a reggae style. Not bad at all. But as I’ve been looking to expand my current repertoire, I’ve been looking for [...]

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If you’ve watched shows and/or videos of the birth of rock and roll, you’ll know that the pundits say it was the Brits who embraced the blues, then later morphed it into what we now know as Rock and Roll, invading the US with the fresh sound of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The [...]

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I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t discover this kid. I stumbled upon him via GuitarFlame’s blog. I was so impressed that an 11 year old kid had chops this good that I had to list him here as a Top Dawg. You have to see it to believe it! This kid is absolutely [...]

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Here’s a guy who has absolutely excellent acoustic guitar technique, plus has a GREAT voice. The combination is very pleasing to the ear. The guy’s not flashy, but it’s clear that he has a real command of his instrument, and that’s something that The Dawg looks for in a guitarist, so I wanted to recognize [...]

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Before the days of the Internet, the world of “known” guitarists was limited to what you heard on the radio or saw on MTV or by word of mouth. But today, we’ve got all sorts of sources for discovering great musicians. The Dawg often trolls the Internet in search of guitarists, and he’s found some [...]

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