
Originally Posted by
roho
Veering a bit more off, but a couple deserved mentions. Les Paul, his work developing a solid body guitar is well known, but he was the first to develop multi track recording. Check out his work with Mary Ford, they owned the charts before Elvis took over. Worth a good google if you find that kind of thing interesting.
Even further back, Django Reinhardt, 2 fingered wizard back when the strings were heavy gauge only.
If your are not familiar, worth a look, and some good listening to history.
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