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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Obrecht, Jas, compiler, interviewer. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

Title: Talking guitar : conversations with musicians who shaped twentieth-century American music / Jas Obrecht.

Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the Southern Folklife Collection, the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016039783| ISBN 9781469631646 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469631653 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Guitarists—United States—Interviews. | Popular music—United States—20th century—History and criticism. | LCGFT: Interviews.

Classification: LCC ML3477.T35 2017 | DDC 787.87092/273—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016039783