Scott Ainslie: BluesNotes

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(b. 1930-d. 2015)

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In the mid-1980s, I dove into Robert Johnson's tracks for a second time.

My first attempt, in the mid-1970s, just scratched the surface of Johnson's guitar techniques. A decade later, I had enough guitar experience to make real progress and in a few months, I had pretty much cracked the code.

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