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"textContent": "The Knaggs signature artist has grown an international profile by importing heavy distortion into the blues and bending it to his will",
"title": "“Every modern guitarist from Joe Bonamassa to Jared James Nichols gets the same haters who say, ‘Everything you play is pentatonic’”: Meet Eric Steckel, the high-gain firebrand painting a new shade of blues guitar",
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