Episode 152: “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Life of a Guitarist
In his early teens, stills became the drummer for a band called the radars. While he was drumming, he studied their league guitarist, chuck shwin. Stills taught himself how to emulate chet atkins's travis picking style. There exists a recording of him, aged 16, singing one of his own songs and playing finger pick guitar. And while the song is not exactly the strongest thing i've ever heard lyrically, it's clearly the work of someone who is already a confident performer. Then again, there's so many people lor just wandering here and there, they don't know where there are going. Lord and sides ting ther besideste the
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