influences

RJ Ronquillo on The Ventures' "Walk, Don't Run" | Hooked

The Nashville-based YouTube sensation whoā€™s slung strings with Carlos Santana and Stevie Wonder digs into the surf and Johnny Smith jazz versions of this ā€™50s/ā€™60s classic.

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Andy Wood on Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" | Hooked

The hot picker recalls receiving a mix CD of must-know guitarists and the Grammy-winning track was the one that "hit him like a ton of bricks."

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Zach Person on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Texas Flood" | Hooked

The rising blues-rock riffmeister cops to his early obsession with SRV's iconic number that consumed his teenage brain and is still infused in his own guitar-playing vocabulary.

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