Lyrical: “Guitar” (Part One)

These are songs that contain the word “Guitar” in their lyrics.

“Dear Mr. Fantasy” is a 1967 song by Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, and it became one of the defining songs of the band’s psychedelic-rock period. It first appeared on Traffic’s debut album Mr. Fantasy in the United Kingdom, where it closes the original album’s first side, and on the American Heaven Is in Your Mind configuration.

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Dolly Parton Dies

Her uncle Bill Owens recognized her extraordinary talent, gave her a guitar, helped her obtain early performing opportunities.

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains, the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton Sr., a sharecropper and laborer, and Avie Lee Owens Parton, who sang and played music for the family. The Partons lived in severe poverty in a small cabin, without many of the comforts that most families took for granted, but Dolly later

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Kris Kristofferson Dies

His deep, gravelly voice and evocative lyrics earned him respect as one of the key figures in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s.

Kris Kristofferson was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and former military officer whose contributions to music and film have spanned decades. Born on June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson came from a military family. His father was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer, and the family moved frequently during Kris’s early years. He excelled academically and athletically, earning a Rhodes Scholarship1 to study at Merton College, Oxford.

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