Noam Dworman: evaluation

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…Who’s the most underrated guitarist in your view? The guitar players who are not fancy, like Paul McCartney, whose touch is magical. You can tell it’s him immediately. Like Paul Simon. James Taylor gets more credit, but is also not understood to be the genius that he is because he basically invented an entire style. Nobody plays like him, nobody sounds like him, and nobody played like that before him. Willie Nelson’s soloing. I know that people like Miles Davis. They get it because it’s so simple; it’s all phrasing. It’s something that anybody would think they could do, but they can’t quite do it like him. It’s like Sinatra singing. Nobody gets that, but yet, everybody can’t believe how good he is. He’s not singing like Ella Fitzgerald. He’s not singing like Tony Bennett. It’s almost approachable. You’d think you could almost sing like Sinatra, but you can’t. The guitar players like that — I’ve listed some of them — those are the people I really admire. I never did enjoy the fancy guitar players like the guitar gods because that’s not really my approach to music. I’m more song-oriented. I like the songs. I even like the solos that are not necessarily improvised. The fact that you mastered the oud, which is unusual — how has that shaped your understanding of rock and roll in popular music? What is it that you see differently?…

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