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Doyle Dykes

Inspired primarily by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, in addition to bluegrass-style banjo, guitarist Doyle Dykes started executing around Florida along with his gospel-group family when he was only an adolescent; he was shortly touring using the Crusaders and J.D. Sumner’s Stamps. Dykes briefly give up music to come back house to Jacksonville, marry his senior high school sweetheart, and pursue what he sensed were legitimate, nonmusical jobs. Disappointed, he came back to your guitar and, through a pal in Nashville, guaranteed a job within the support band of nation vocalist and Hee Haw superstar Grandpa Jones. Nevertheless, after 3 years, he give up music again to become pastor, although he used his musical abilities by organizing traditional hymns for single electric guitar. But Dykes basically was not content without producing music his vocation, and he produced a second come back being a solo instrumentalist. He documented two albums of religious music for THE FIRST STEP, titled Fingerstyle Electric guitar (1996) and H.E.A.T. (1997), respectively, and scored a cope with Windham Hill, for whom he debuted with 1998’s Gitarre 2000.

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