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Les Davidson brings you two full solos in the style of Room Full Of Blues’s Duke Robillard.

Duke Robilliard (born Michael Robillard, 1948) has said that when he was a boy, music took over his life and he became obsessed with recreating the sound of his early influences: Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Elvis and Chuck Berry and the singles that his older, guitar-playing brother would bring home. His first serious guitar was a Gibson Melody Maker but as a young boy for a science project, Duke and his father made a guitar that looked like a Telecaster. It was good grounding in learning to understand the instrument that has given him a successful career for over 50 years.

These early years learning his craft paid off as the young Duke was soon playing in various