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Country blues artist Eric Bibb talks about his finger-picking guitar preferences.

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/eric-bibb-one-mississippi-interview

'But I play electric guitars like I play my acoustic guitars, I fingerpick them. I’ve never played with a plectrum, you know? I’ve never really mastered or even really been attracted to that style of playing, although I have band members who are wonderful players on electric guitar and who play with their fingers but also are masters of the pick.'
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Did the tensions between Dave and Steve Winwood held the band back fulfilling its potential?

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/dave-mason-obituary

'“After cooking an amazing dinner with his wife, Winifred, he sat down to take a nap with his [pet dog] at his feet. He passed away peacefully, in his favourite chair, surrounded by the beautiful Carson Valley that he loved so much. A storybook ending. On his own terms. Which is how he lived his life right up to the end.”'
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You can upload music created with artificial intelligence, but you can't make money from it and it will be clearly tagged as AI.

https://tidal.com/ai-policy

'Tidal’s priority is ensuring royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by people. We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated.'
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How Robert Smith came to write "Friday I'm in Love".

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/the-story-of-the-cure-friday-im-in-love

'“We were recording the [1992] Wish album in the Manor studio, which is about an hour west of London. I remember driving home one Friday afternoon to have the weekend off. And I started to think of this really great chord sequence.

“I was about 20 minutes away from the studio. So I turned around, went back to the studio and everyone was still there. We actually recorded it that Friday night.”'
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MTP · 1w
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@nprofile1q... Eventually. It was so cold I had a real task getting the flute up to pitch. For awhile I was sure I'd have to tune it down and play everything a semitone higher, which is something you don't want to have to do when you're playing by ear with occasional glances at what chords the performer's left hand is shaping. But the weather warmed a little, and by dint of blowing persistently into the flute between songs I got there.

I had a good time. I think we all had a good time.
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Turned up early at an open mic afternoon in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. There are still six empty slots on the board, but I'm only here today to play some flute riffs when called on.