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From his twanging tribute to the Fender Telecaster guitar that he plays (and which he notes "was born at the junction of form and function") to the soulful closing of Arthur Alexander's "If It's Really Got To Be This Way," Bill Kirchen covers a wide swatch of musical terrain on his newest album, "Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods." Best know for his trademark big-rig guitar on the Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen single "Hot Rod Lincoln," which went Top 10 in 1972, Kirchen has amassed a respectable catalog of 7 critically acclaimed albums that helped crystallize the format now known as Americana. Kirchen has appeared on record and stage with a who's who of talent that includes Nick Lowe, Doug Sahm, Ralph Stanley, Gene Vincent, Link Wray and Elvis Costello (Kirchen shared the stage with him at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival here in SF in 2006 & Costello named his band for the event The Hammer of The Honky-Tonk Gods after Kirchen's most recent release.)
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