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Poor Boy Blues

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler · 1990 · solo by Chet Atkins
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Poor Boy Blues

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler, 1990, from Neck and Neck. Solo by Chet Atkins.

A duet where Atkins' clean fingerstyle meets Mark Knopfler's expressive picking, a meeting of two generations of fingerpickers.

Poor Boy Blues by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler is #5 in our ranking of the best Chet Atkins guitar solos. The solo is played by Chet Atkins and the song was released in 1990.

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    Who played the guitar solo on Poor Boy Blues?

    Chet Atkins played the solo on Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's Poor Boy Blues (1990).