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The best 12 string songs


Phil O'Keefe

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OK, here is totally bizarre timing. I was just watching local evening news and apparently there is new showing of photographs of David Bowie opening in Seattle. They had the photographer on (this is Seattle, after all, and apparently a big deal) and in the back ground were flashing some of his photos. Up pops one with the glam rocker in a shear tee shirt making that captain marvel goggle eyes with his upside down hands holding a 12 string guitar (looked to be a Guild jumbo but the head wasn't quite right). Somehow I missed Bowie in the list of great rock and roll 12 string players but listen up boys (and girls?), you too can dye your hair red, put on you makeup and play a 12 string.

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I don't hear any jangles, do you?

 

It's funny how each of our experiences are colored differently.

 

Though I am familiar with each of the 12 songs listed in the original article, the first AND ONLY thing (songs) I thought

about when asked this question was LEO KOTTKE.

To me he and the 12-string guitar are synonymous. :)

 

When he plays the 12 string it sounds like an orchestra. All the others, it just sounds like a 12 -string guitar. :)

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