Queering the strum

Amanda Riddell
Jul 13, 2023
1 min read

That wasn't really intentional; I was aware of the Howard Morrison quartet as a kid, but I didn't find out about the showband stuff until my twenties. It's just my style of guitar... Jane's influence.

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