Back in the fifties I first heard Les Paul on a local juke box and was hooked. Can't remember where I got my first guitar from, but it was an awful thing to play. I didn't know that at the time, so I bought some beginner books and learned to play while sitting in the barn at my folks' farm. For many years I could play a few country songs, but always wondered how Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Segovia, Johnny Cash and Charlie Bird could play their kind of stuff. Over forty years and several guitars later I still wonder. But with a nice Peavy Firenza and several years of lessons I think some of it is beginning to take shape. I'm sorry that I waited until my 60s to start digging in. Better late than never, and I'm having a great time with it.
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