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You can hear him trade red-hot blues leads with co-guitarist Rick Derringer
on the 1971 cover of B.B. King’s “It’s My Own Fault” (from Johnny Winter
And Live).
Figure 13-6 is an example of a typical blues line as Winter played it —
aggressive and authoritative, but just as much of a blues figure as a rock
one. To play like Winter, develop the best blues vocabulary you can and
work on making any phrase fit in any groove — straight, shuffle, or 16thbased,
fast and slow.
Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top,
giving rock some soul
The power trio ZZ Top is a powerful mix of Texan music and the blues.
Guitarist Billy Gibbons wasn’t a high-speed player like Johnny Winter (see the
previous section), but his slow, smoldering solos helped set the standard for
“soulfulness” in the rock guitar world.
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Figure 13-6:
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