My father played the guitar when I was growing up and always kept a stack of well-worn songbooks from Harry Chapin, Don McLean and John Prine nearby. When my parents gave me a Takamine acoustic guitar for my birthday as a teenager, I consulted those same songbooks for my first foray into guitar playing. I admittedly fell away from the practice over time, but during the coronavirus lockdown, a lot of people suddenly had the urge to pick up a new skill.
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