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  "textContent": "When I was just back from my first year in college, I was staying in the house in Lexington on Hunt Road, and I was just getting things together and rehearsing and playing at the house. We had a big open basement and I had a great little set-up there with guitars, a turntable, and a collection of records I was trying to practice off of—and lift licks from—Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooperand Mike Bloomfield solos. So, guitars were a big thing for me, and I had a Fender acoustic and had just bought a beautiful Fender Stratocaster, white and in perfect condition. My parents had gone away […]\n\nThe post Tip Jar: A Tale of Loss, Redemption, and Fulfillment That Is All True and Uplifting first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.",
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