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Best Betts

DICKEY BETTS GREW up listening to country, bluegrass and fiddle tunes, so most of his songs were born from acoustic seeds that sprouted into epic electric arrangements with the Allman Brothers Band. With that said, you can still rock classics like “Blue Sky” and “Rambin’ Man,” as well as most Betts material, unplugged.

Betts, who died this past April 18, incorporated more fingerpicking in his acoustic work than

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