• Guitar Town is the debut studio album from American singer-songwriter Steve Earle, released on March 5, 1986. It topped the Billboard country album charts...
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  • "Guitar Town" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle. It was released in June 1986 as the second single and title track...
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    first EP in 1982. Earle's breakthrough album was the 1986 debut album Guitar Town; the eponymous lead single peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country...
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  • Album, 'Guitar Town,' In Its Entirety". Cleveland Scene. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Rich Kienzle (May 1, 2017). "Guitar Town 30th Anniversary:...
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  • country and college rock audiences: He promoted his 1986 debut album Guitar Town with a tour that saw him open for both country singer Dwight Yoakam and...
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  • recording. Exit 0 is stylistically very similar to its predecessor, Guitar Town, and was Earle's final pure-country album before incorporating hard rock...
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    wrote a song titled "Hillbilly Highway", recorded on his 1986 album Guitar Town. Also released as a single, "Hillbilly Highway" recounts the story of...
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    A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than...
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    Nashville, where he co-produced Steve Earle's seminal releases Exit 0 and Guitar Town with Tony Brown. Gordy also produced George Jones' Walls Can Fall , which...
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  • Calgary) – 3:15 "Guitar Town" (live in Calgary) – 2:36 Steve Earle – vocals, guitars, harmonica, 6-string bass, mandolin Donny Roberts – guitars, 6-string bass...
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    2007). "Steve Rothery: Marillion's King of Guitar Town". MusicPlayers.com. Retrieved 18 June 2013. "Total Guitar July 2001". brianmay.com. Retrieved 27 August...
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  • from American alternative country musician Steve Earle's debut album Guitar Town (1986). As stated by Los Angeles Times in 1989, "Sean" was written for...
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  • self-financed record, White Town EP, on 7" vinyl. This featured Nick Glyn-Davies on drums and Sean Deegan on bass, with Mishra on guitar and vocals. Sean Phillips...
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    Johnny Guitar is a 1954 American Western film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine...
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  • song he wrote called "Hillbilly Highway" on his 1986 breakout album Guitar Town, later observed, "What we had in common is that we use the term 'hillbilly...
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    blues musician B. B. King (1925–2015) gave to his guitars. They were usually black Gibson guitars similar to the ES-330 or ES-355, and Gibson introduced...
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    2017, at the Wayback Machine. McNutt, Guitar Towns, Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 175. McNutt, Guitar Towns, Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 175...
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    is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. It is highly respected for its acoustic guitars and is a leading...
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  • him the nickname of the Poet of the Common Man. McNutt, Randy (2002). Guitar towns : a journey to the crossroads of rock 'n' roll. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana...
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    Cowtown Guitars was a vintage guitar shop located in Las Vegas, Nevada, owned by husband and wife, Jesse and Roxie Amoroso. The shop was well known having...
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    Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached...
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  • (self-released) 2015: Look Out Heart! (self-released) 1976: Silver (Arista) 1986: Guitar Town (MCA) 1986: Live from Austin TX (New West) released in 2004 1987: Exit...
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  • Earle. It was released in March 1986 as the first single from the album Guitar Town. The song reached #37 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
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    In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse...
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  • play pedal steel guitar in the 1970s. In the following decade, he met Steve Earle and played in the latter's debut album, Guitar Town in 1986. Baxter was...
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  • Northern Town" was written as an elegy to British folk musician Nick Drake, who died in 1974. Nick Laird-Clowes said he wrote it on a guitar that Drake...
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  • di Perna of Guitar World magazine noted Crazy Town were predominantly a rap-metal group, with their music containing the "streetwise guitar rage" of the...
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    The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or Lap Slide Guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument...
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    "punctuated [with] bone-crushing [...] guitar riffs." Due to looking more like a hip hop crew than a metal band, Crazy Town inspired more ire from metal purists...
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  • Bellville-based Fokofpolisiekar, in collaboration with Laudo Liebenberg (vocals and guitar) and Hennie van Halen (bass). The band's first studio album, Dutch Courage...
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