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thucythucy

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4. Freddy King also used finger picks.

Reply to TEB (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:33 AM

Aug 2017

One of my all time favorite guitar players (his voice was awesome too).

He was Eric Clapton's mentor, and wrote "Hideaway," "Pulpwood," "Goin' Down" and lots of other great tunes.

Check him out, if you haven't already.

Sadly, he died young, in the 1970s.

One of the greats.

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