I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Nick Lucas, America’s first guitar star.
During the Roaring Twenties, Nick made stacks of 78s, beginning with 1922’s “Pickin’ the Guitar” and “Teasin’ the Frets,” the first notable guitar solos on record. Framing his warm, pure tenor with agile guitar parts, he scored his first major hit with 1924’s “My Bes…
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