Tree Trekker's Texas Music Collection - Volume Four:
Twelve on Six
From the days of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lightnin' Hopkins to the present, Texas has been a home for great guitar players. Click the following link to watch a video with clips of twelve Texas six-stringers, identify them, then follow the instructions below to find the cache.
Watch Texas Guitar Slingers
Label the clips chromatically, from A through G-sharp, in the order they appear, then assign each one a numerical value based on the featured guitarist. The musicians you will see (not in this order) and their associated numerical values are:
1. T-Bone Walker. Born in Linden, Texas, in 1910, Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed blues guitarist who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at #47 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
2. Charlie Christian. Charles Henry Christian, born in 1916 in Bonham, was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra. His single-string technique, combined with amplification, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument. He has been called the best improvisational talent of the swing era, and many consider him one of the founding fathers of bebop. In 1990, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
3. Albert Collins. Born in Leona in 1932, Albert Collins was introduced to the guitar at an early age through his cousin, Lightnin' Hopkins, also a Leona resident. An electric blues guitarist with a distinctive style, Collins was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to his title, "The Master of the Telecaster."
4. Willie Nelson. The "Red-headed Stranger" was born in Abbott in 1933. In naming Nelson number 77 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "Willie Nelson's guitar playing is deceptively laid back, playfully offbeat and instantly recognizable. Amazingly, Nelson has been playing the same Martin M-20 classical guitar, nicknamed Trigger, since 1969; it has defined his sound, a nylon-stabbing mix of country, blues and Django Reinhardt's gypsy jazz. Though the guitar now has a large gaping hole, Nelson still plays it nightly. ‘I have come to believe we were fated for each other,' he said. ‘The two of us even look alike. We are both pretty battered and bruised.'"
5. Freddie King. Born Frederick Christian in 1934 in Dallas and known as "The Texas Cannonball," Freddy King is often mentioned as one of the "Three Kings" of electric blues guitar, along with Albert King and B.B. King. He based his guitar style on Texas and Chicago influences and was one of the first bluesmen to have a multi-racial backing band on stage with him at live performances. King had a twenty-year recording career and strongly inspired musicians such as Jerry Garcia, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Chicken Shack. Named number 15 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists," he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
6. Johnny Winter. Born in Mississippi in 1944, John Dawson Winter III moved with his family to Beaumont while he was still an infant. A blues guitarist, singer, and producer best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
7. Stephen Stills. Stephen Arthur Stills, born in Dallas in 1945, is best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young). He was ranked #28 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield.
8. Billy Gibbons. William Frederick Gibbons was born in Houston in 1949. Best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top, Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. He is noted for formerly using an old five peso Mexican coin as a guitar pick and use of pinch harmonics in his solos. Gibbons was named as the 2012 Texas State Musician by the Texas Commission on the Arts and was ranked thirty-second in Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
9. Eric Johnson. Born in Austin in 1954, Eric Johnson is best known for his amazing electric guitar skills, but is also a highly proficient acoustic, lap steel, resonator, and bass guitarist as well as an accomplished pianist and vocalist. Guitar Player magazine has called Johnson "one of the most respected guitarists on the planet." His 1990 platinum-selling album, Ah Via Musicom, produced the single, "Cliffs Of Dover," for which Johnson won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
10. Stevie Ray Vaughn. Born in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas in 1954, Stevie Ray Vaughn ranked number seven on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists" and is widely considered one of the greatest musicians to come from the state of Texas. With a career spanning seven years, Vaughan and his band Double Trouble ignited the blues revival of the 1980s, consistently selling out concerts while their albums frequently went gold. Their 1989 album, In Step, earned the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Performance. In 1990, Vaughan died in a helicopter crash following a performance in East Troy, Wisconsin, with Eric Clapton and others. Vaughan's uniquely eclectic yet intense style was influenced by musicians including Albert King, Freddie King, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters, as well as rock guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack.
11. Monte Montgomery. Although he was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1966, where he learned to play trumpet and piano, it was only after moving to Texas at age twelve that Monte Montgomery took up the guitar, eventually becoming known as one of the best players to come out of Austin. He appeared on Guitar Player Magazine's 2004 list of "The Top 50 All-Time Greatest Guitarists" and won the "Best Acoustic Guitar Player" award at the SXSW Festival's Austin Music Awards seven years in a row (1998–2004), the only artist to have ever done so.
12. Dimebag Darrell. Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as Diamond Darrell and Dimebag Darrell, was born in Ennis in 1966. He was shot and killed by a mentally disturbed fan while on stage during a performance in Ohio in 2004. Best known as a founding member of Pantera and Damageplan, Darrell was considered one of the driving forces behind groove metal. He ranked number 92 in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists" and was ranked number 1 by the UK magazine, Metal Hammer.
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W 97° 24.XYZ
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