76 years ago tomorrow, the first electric guitar patent was awarded to the Electro String Instrument Corporation. So let’s have some ax music.
Here’s Stevie Ray Vaughan covering Hendrix’s “Little Wing.”

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76 years ago tomorrow, the first electric guitar patent was awarded to the Electro String Instrument Corporation. So let’s have some ax music.
Here’s Stevie Ray Vaughan covering Hendrix’s “Little Wing.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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