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<\/a><\/p>\nHowever\u2026when I was six years old he gave me an electric guitar with cord, practice amp, and chord book. He had won it in a poker game. Not certain what sort of guitar it was. It was white, had 3 pickups and 4 knobs, a sunburst pick guard and a whammy bar. Me and that guitar were about the same size at the time. I didn\u2019t much care for the chord book and I had no idea how to tune it but\u2026I sure did like to feel the strings vibrate and that was enough.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always had a guitar around. I bought my first acoustic guitar when I was about ten years old. $25.00 from Western Auto. It was really hard to play. My mom used her Green Stamps to buy my next one\u2026a nylon string classical guitar. Much easier! I\u2019ve always been writing songs but rarely doing much with them\u2026 short of playing them for the cats and forgetting them a month later. That changed in 2000 when I wrote a song for someone and played it for her. I was encouraged to \u201cdo something with my music\u201d so I started playing with some friends and eventually was the founder of Blue Line Highway, which would be my band for the next 12 years.<\/p>\n
I seriously doubt I would have done much musically without all the players that went through Blue Line Highway. I\u2019m no solo performer and consider myself more of a \u201csongwriter singer\u201d instead of the other way around. I could never really tolerate lessons so I have little to no idea what I\u2019m playing. I needed a lot of help!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n