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If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

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Kevin Eubanks
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 15
Bandleader
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Jazz Guitarist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks
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