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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach

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Dan Auerbach
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 14
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Akron
Ohio
Daniel Quine Auerbach
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