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Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

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Born in:United States of America
Year of Birth:1939
Year of death:2019

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Beverly "Guitar" Watkins (April 6, 1939 – October 1, 2019) was an American blues guitarist. Sandra Pointer-Jones wrote, "Beverly Watkins is a pyrotechnic guitar maven whose searing, ballistic attacks on the guitar have become allegorical tales within the blues community." George Varga, reviewing her debut CD, observed that Watkins “sings and plays with enough poise and verve to make musicians half her age or younger consider alternative means of employment.”
Watkins was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1939.... more

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