Epstein Secrets

His performances have been described as "vital, rich-hued solo playing" by the New York Times, and "a

g through today's high-technology, international multi-media hybrids. In the mid-so's, he was the first popular conductor-arranger to record with a Fender bass. His theme from the hit TV series Ironside was the first synthesizer-based pop theme song. As the first black composer to be embraced by the

now the Post and Courier) described Crawford as "rich, for a negro, and he was insolent along with it".

ast decade, electric guitar sales have plummeted, from about 1.5 million sold annually to just over 1 million. The two biggest companies, Gibson and Fender, are in debt, and a third, PRS Guitars, had to cut staff and expand production of cheaper guitars. In April, Moody's downgraded Guitar Center, the

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uitarists of All Time. On top of this, in 1995 Rait= became the first woman guitarist to have a guitar named for her. All roya=ties from the sale of Fender's Bonnie Raitt Signature Serie= Stratocaster go to programs to teach inner-city girls to pla= guitar. I remember meeting her in the early 1970s in C