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“He was a very melodic player. He wasn’t always just pulling things out of his bag of licks”: Duane Betts pays tribute to his father and shares what he learned from him

Dickey and son Duane Betts jam together onstage back in 2007.

Duane Betts has been speaking publicly for the first time since his father, Dickey Betts, passed away in April, paying a warm tribute to his father's talent as a guitar player and sharing some of the advice he received from the late southern rock icon.

Speaking to Guitar World, Betts said his father’s playing was all about being “in a zone” and the kind of situational awareness that a player needs to play the right part.

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