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in Artists, Guitarists, Music Theory And Songwriting, Singers & Songwriters, Tutorials “Warner Brothers wanted another Layla. I thought, ‘well, if you sit down and write a song in a formatted way, it’s not so hard’”: The Grammy-winning hit that Eric Clapton wrote to order, with a little help from Foreigner’s Mick Jones
in Artist Lessons, Lessons “I wanted to come up with a hypnotic riff and had the Rolling Stones’ Miss You in mind”: Jared James Nichols on how Keith Richards and ZZ Top influenced one of his most memorable riffs – and what Eddie Kramer told him about songwriting
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