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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Andrew Daly

“I swear that guitar plays itself… Who’d have thought a 16-year-old girl like me could suddenly have this crazy connection with Jerry Garcia?” Meet Bella Rayne, the guitarist who jumped from Mom’s Strat to wielding Garcia’s ’Gator onstage

Bella Rayne.

Few 16-year-old guitarists can claim they’ve held a guitar once owned by Jerry Garcia, let alone played one. But Bella Rayne can.

Given that the Grateful Dead called the San Francisco Bay Area home, local resident Rayne’s infatuation with the band shouldn’t be a surprise. But her interest in picking up guitar in the first place came from a decidedly un-jam-band-like place.

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