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WANT TO BE A SESSION GUITARIST? READ THIS FIRST!

riginal session guys would carry a guitar or two, go to the studio where the session was booked, play and run to the next. We’re talking ‘40s and ‘50s and very jazz-based music. The next generation of session guitarists became very much like a gang in the ‘60s and ‘70s. More guitars were brought to sessions. Sometimes the

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