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Dr. G.B. Burt
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Born: January 30, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama Repertoire Summary: Primitive guitar playing & haunting vocals—pure, raw Blues Current Location: Birmingham, AL “Lead Belly, he was the King of The Twelve-String Guitar, so I hope to make a name to be the Boss of the Twelve-String because not many peoples play that out there.” - Dr. G. B. Burt Standing at nearly seven feet tall, Dr. G. B. Burt mixes an imposing presence with a gentle voice and an otherworldly guitar sound. Born: January 30, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama Repertoire Summary: Primitive guitar playing & haunting vocals—pure, raw Blues Current Location: Birmingham, AL More about Dr. Burt: It was thanks to an argument with his wife – married to the same woman since 1957 with seven children – that Dr. G.B. Burt took up the Twelve-String. “My wife and I got in some kind of an argument and I just walked on out,” Dr. Burt remembers. “I went up the the Fox Theater there on Woodward Avenue in Detroit and the picture they were playing was the story of Lead Belly. I had never heard of a twelve string guitar in my life and that’s what he was playing. And I just so happened again and this was on Gratiot Avenue, walk into a pawnshop and there one was and I bought it.” Dr. G. B. Burt (named after his father known as Dr. G.B.) talks a lot about chance – the lucky showing of the Lead Belly film, the pawnshop with the twelve-string guitar – but his luck is also locked in with ingenuity. His Dad taught him to fix cars and that s
