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Hybrid Picking

In the Artist’s Choice section of our September issue, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Georgia Anne Muldrow made a comment that kicked my nostalgia circuits into high gear. She was talking about “I Don’t Want Nobody,” a track on Eddie Harris’ 1975 album I Need Some Money, and she happened to mention that the tune features her father Ronald Muldrow playing … the Guitorgan.

Seeing that word in print instantly took me back about 30 years. In my mind, I was standing in my local guitar shop/home away from home

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