Chris Dalla Riva (@chrisdallariva): "While rounding up my favorite acoustic guitar solos, I neglected to highlight one of my favorite acoustic players: Maury Muehleisen. Muehleisen played lead guitar for—and died in the same plane crash with—Jim Croce. Criminally underrated player, but I don’t think he has one defi…"

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While rounding up my favorite acoustic guitar solos, I neglected to highlight one of my favorite acoustic players: Maury Muehleisen. Muehleisen played lead guitar for—and died in the same plane crash with—Jim Croce. Criminally underrated player, but I don’t think he has one defining solo.

Last week, Rolling Stone published a list of the greatest guitar solos of all time. As I was opining on the topic, a question began to loom: Why is every list of guitar solos only made up of electric guitar solos? The acoustic guitar has a longer history than the electric. Surely, as much six-string genius has been played without amplification as with

Chris Dalla Riva

May 18

3:28 PM

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