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Kelly Joe Phelps

NPR
Published August 11, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Noah talks to Kelly Joe Phelps. Phelps switched from jazz guitar to playing country blues and found even more space there for improvisation. His instrument is the lap slide guitar.

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