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Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith
American singer-songwriter
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Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
American musician
2
John Gorka
John Gorka
born 1958; American folk musician
3
Kate Wolf
Kate Wolf
American singer
4
Billy Joe Walker, Jr.
Billy Joe Walker, Jr.
American songwriter, record producer and recording artist
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Bucky Pizzarelli
Bucky Pizzarelli
American Jazz guitarist
6
Danny Kalb
Danny Kalb
American blues guitarist
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Tom Russell
Tom Russell
American singer
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Jack Wilkins
Jack Wilkins
American musician
9
Robert Quine
Robert Quine
American guitarist
10
Jerry Marotta
Jerry Marotta
American musician
11
The Smithereens
The Smithereens
American musical group; rock band from Carteret, New Jersey
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Lucy Kaplansky
Lucy Kaplansky
American folk musician
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Steve Morse
Steve Morse
American guitarist and composer
14
Dixie Dregs
Dixie Dregs
American band
15
David Hungate
David Hungate
American musician
16
Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers
American musician
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David Blue
David Blue
American musician (1941-1982)
18
David Massengill
David Massengill
American musician
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Gamma
Gamma
American band
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Delaney Bramlett
Delaney Bramlett
American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
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George Van Eps
George Van Eps
musician
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Paul Jackson, Jr.
Paul Jackson, Jr.
American musician
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Eric Gale
Eric Gale
American musician
24
Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine
musician
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Riot V
Riot V
American heavy metal band
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The Kennedys
The Kennedys
American folk-rock band
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Buzz Feiten
Buzz Feiten
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, session musician, and luthier
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Outlaws
Outlaws
American band
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Emory Gordy, Jr.
Emory Gordy, Jr.
American musician
30
Bill Mays
Bill Mays
American pianist
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Deliverance
Deliverance
American Christian thrash metal band founded in 1985
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Kevin Coyne
Kevin Coyne
English musician (1944-2004)
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Don Edwards
Don Edwards
American singer
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Anthony Jackson
Anthony Jackson
American electric bass guitar player, session musician, songwriter
35
Ron Asheton
Ron Asheton
American musician (1948-2009)
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Oz Fox
Oz Fox
musician
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Love
Love
American rock group
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Anthrax
Anthrax
heavy metal band from USA
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Clive Gregson
Clive Gregson
British singer-songwriter
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Dean Brown
Dean Brown
American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician
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Amazing Rhythm Aces
Amazing Rhythm Aces
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Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darrell
American guitarist
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Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton
American musician
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Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
American musician
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Cracker
Cracker
band
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Lonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack
American blues-rock guitarist and vocalist
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John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli
American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader
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Jeff Baxter
Jeff Baxter
American musician
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Inner Circle
Inner Circle
Jamaican reggae group
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Albert Lee
Albert Lee
English guitarist
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The Crickets
The Crickets
American rock and roll band
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Nada Surf
Nada Surf
American alternative rock band
Frank Christian
American singer-songwriter

Frank Christian

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Frank Christian (born Frank P. Caputo, October 19, 1952 – December 24, 2012) was an American, Greenwich Village-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. His best-known song, "Three Flights Up" was recorded by Nanci Griffith for her Grammy award-winning 1992 release Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Christian has also had much success as a sideman. He has appeared on dozens of albums, backing such performers as Dave Van Ronk, Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Nanci Griffith, and The Smithereens.

He began his guitar studies with the jazz guitarist Roosevelt Span.

He was a guitar teacher in New York City. Christian used to quip that if a person had studied blues guitar with Dave van Ronk and had absorbed everything Dave could teach them but still wanted to learn more, van Ronk would then send them to study with Frank Christian.