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Earl 'Joaquin' Murphey

August 14, 2016

Here’s a 2001 article I wrote on the legendary western swing steel guitarist Earl ‘Joaquin’ Murphey, who played with Spade Cooley, Tex Williams, the Plainsmen, and other West Coast acts in the 1940s and 1950s. To merely call him the best steel guitarist of his era is to do his work a disservice. He is…

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Articles Western Swing

Larry 'Pedro' DePaul

August 14, 2016

Here’s a 1999 article I wrote on legendary Western Swing musician and arranger Larry ‘Pedro’ DePaul for the Journal of Country Music back in 1999. He was the architect behind the sound of the great Spade Cooley and Tex Williams bands of the 1940s. By the way, knucklehead that I am, I mistranscribed DePaul’s wife’s…

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