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‘Cause I’m the ax man

By Alex Fiore | August 30, 2011

Tucked away in a dusty back room, R. Wesley Carr pulls out his scuffed-up 1959 classical guitar. The walls are lined with old guitar cases and a tattered Grateful Dead poster and the floor is cluttered with stools and amplifiers, but he appears completely...