"For an instrument that’s so heavily dependent upon shredding scales and fancy chords today, it’s amazing that slide guitar still manages to blow the minds of listeners almost a century after being popularised by the American bluesmen of the early 20th century."
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Will Brewster of ' (January 13, 2025)
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