Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

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For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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"You want to play blues? Well, here's a better way to do it." Keith Wyatt: What I learned at GIT

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Keith Wyatt is one of the world’s most prominent guitar educators, specializing in blues and roots-based music.

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