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  • The Things I Used To Do

    "The Things That I Used to Do" is a song written by Guitar Slim (aka Eddie Jones) and his 1953 recor

  • Texas Flood: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert Collins, and BB King

    Stevie, Albert(Collins) and BB!!! I am sure somewhere in the archive this video is lurking, but it i

  • The Robert Cray Band: New Album “This Time” Keeps You Rockin’

    Amazon.com Widgets Inside the Car I was anxiously tapping my fingers on the steering wheel… My wif

  • Albert Collins: Master of the Telecaster

    “I didn't record for six years from 1972 to '78. For about a year, I stopped playing completely. M

  • Blues by request

    Requested by Cheeto Recorded at Alberts Hall in Jeff Healey's hometown on 7/27/85, years before he

  • Biography Albert Collins

    Albert Collins
    Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. He had many nicknames from fans, such as "The Ice Man" and "The Master of the Telecaster". Career Born in Leona, Texas, Collins was a distant relative of Lightnin' Hopkins and grew up learning about music and playing guitar. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he absorbed the blues sounds and styles from Texas, Mississippi and Chicago. His style would soon envelop these sounds. He formed his first band in 1952 and two years later was the headliner at several blues clubs in Houston, Texas. By the late 1950s Albert began using Fender Telecasters. He later chose a "maple-cap" 1966 Custom Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucker in the neck position and a 100 watt RMS silverfaced 1970s Fender Quad Reverb combo as his main equipment and developed a unique sound featuring minor tunings, sustained notes and an "attack" fingersty

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