The history of fingerstyle guitar in America is most often told as a story that begins with a phonograph needle dropping into a wax disc somewhere in the early 1920s, when record companies first began dispatching talent scouts into the rural South in search of musicians whose music might sell. From that moment forward, names, sounds, and styles became fixed, cataloged, and distributed. The story had, at last, a record. But the music itself was not born there. What the microphones captured was the s...
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