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Chet Atkins, Mr. Sandman, Mrs. Robinson
So one day, on a crummy radio in the 1940s, Chet Atkins was listening to Merle Travis play guitar. He thought for sure that what Merle was doing was picking with his thumb and two fingers, because if he was just using his thumb and index finger, it would have been impossible. It turned out…
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The Everly Brothers and John Lennon, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Cathy's Clown
Dreams are mysterious and crazy things. Sometimes you’ll have a dream and have no idea of what to make of it. Songs simply about dreams, even sort of romantic cliched ones, are sometimes enough just to trigger those feelings of the novel, the unexplained, and the otherworldly. Such is the case with the 1958 Felice…