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Valerie June Shines Bright

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How I Learned to Play Guitar

When the band broke up, I was like, you know what? I never want to experience this again in my life. And so I got a chord book and when you get a chord book, they show folk songs in there. A Crod-Ad song, which I was raised on, Tom Dooley,. So you learn the root. You learn the basic chords.You learn the foundation of music. It doesn't matter what style you play, you got to learn that root. The songs have always just told me what to do. They're the boss. If they want to be a blues song, they're a blues song. If they wants to be a country song,

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