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When Lightnin' Strikes: Billy Gibbons and Dan Auerbach talk Lightnin' Hopkins

Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2012

BILLY GIBBONS AND Dan Auerbach are standing shoulder to shoulder on Easy Eye Studio's checkerboard floor, trading lazy blues licks through a battered old Gibson amplifier. As photographer Joshua Black Wilkins' camera clicks away – and Gibbons and Auerbach both eschew the V chord for an easy going return to the I – Gibbons breaks into a smile.

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