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    <![CDATA[The New Complete Guitarist]]>
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    <![CDATA[Whether learning the simplest cords and choosing the first songs you want to play to learning more complex styles and advanced improvisation, The New Complete Guitarist is the easiest-to-follow reference for people just picking up a guitar. Including the most up to date fingering, chords, notes, scales, modes, and sequences, this is the only all-visual approach to learning all styles of guitar.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Les Paul: In His Own Words]]>
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    <![CDATA[The first and only Les Paul autobiography!]]>
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    <![CDATA[Les Paul: In His Own Words]]>
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    <![CDATA[At thirteen, he took the tone arm from his father's phonograph, jammed the heavy needle into the top of his five-dollar guitar, and filled it with Plaster of Paris to quell feedback. The guitar didn't survive, but his idea worked, essentially creating the first solid-body electric guitar. Les Paul went on to alter guitars in his quest to create the perfect sound, making one breakthrough after another along the way. Nonstop experiments in his homemade recording studio led to the invention of sound-on-sound, multi-track recording, echo, and a host of other discoveries that revolutionized the recording industry, while he and wife Mary Ford dominated early 1950s pop charts with a continual string of hits. Taken together, the enduring influence of his unique contributions to recording technology, instrument design, and American popular music are unsurpassed. He truly is the man who changed the music, and now, Les Paul tells the whole story as only he could, in his own words.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Best of Les Paul]]>
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    <![CDATA[Before the Wizard of Waukesha became a household name for his monumental contributions to the multi-track recording and guitar-designing worlds, he was a master jazz guitarist. This collection gathers 16 of his classic songs transcribed note-for-note with tab, including: Blue Skies * Caravan * Dark Eyes * Guitar Boogie Shuffle * Honeysuckle Rose * How High the Moon * It's Been a Long, Long Time * Lazy River * My Melancholy Baby * Out of Nowhere * Somebody Loves Me * Stardust * and more. Features an extensive interview of this living legend by Dave Rubin, a detailed biography, and fantastic photos!]]>
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    <![CDATA[The New Complete Guitarist]]>
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    <![CDATA[Strum it like Satriani and pluck it like Page! Breaking new ground with an all-visual approach to mastering the guitar, this is the most comprehensive playing manual ever devised. From simple chords to more complex styles, future rock gods and jazz princesses will be inspired by this guide.]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;In this appealing book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than sixty intimate black-and-white portraits of guitar masters playing their instruments. Focusing his expert lens on musicians who have lent their unmistakable voices to virtually every musical genre—jazz, funk, rock, acoustic, blues, fusion, classical, and experimental—Gibson reveals in each photograph the intense relationship of the player with his beloved “axe.”  The musicians in turn offer individual meditations on the guitar and insights into the passion they share for it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;<em>State of the Axe</em> features guitarists across several generations, from early jazz greats to hip modern rockers, as they play their widely varied guitars, including traditional six-strings, double necks, ten-strings, and fretless models. Gibson’s images capture the enduring appeal of the instrument and the intense, often rapturous expressions of those who pick, strum, amp, bottleneck, and bow the axe. Fusing his own passions for photography and music, Gibson generates a rhythm of words and images that creates a compelling view of the “state of the axe” today.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Among the featured artists:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Adrian Belew&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Nels Cline&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Jim Hall&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Mary Halvorson&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Allan Holdsworth&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Bill Frisell&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;John McGlaughlin&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Lou Reed&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;John Scofield&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Mike Stern&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;&gt;Andy Summers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;James Blood Ulmer&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Anne Wilkes Tucker]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[Les Paul]]></name>
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