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Tommy Keene at Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia PA, 2015. Photo by Chris Sikich. Used by permission.

I’m recalling a conversation in the mid-1980s with a friend, a member of a local band in Washington D.C., who was lamenting the fact that local star Tommy Keene wasn’t being given proper credit for his terrific guitar playing, which many placed third among Keene’s gifts behind his songwriting and singing. Onstage, his playing felt primarily rhythmic, despite his occasional searing solos, in service to ...