Les Dudek

Oh, cool.

But this guitarist, his name is Les Dudek.

Oh, yeah, I know him.

Are you going to talk about his guitar style?

And there was just such a musical environment there, this sort of five-mile space between Auburndale And Winter Haven, you know, you had people like Bobby Braddock from there, the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter.

You had Les Dudek, great guitarist who ended up playing in the Allman Brothers, at least on their recordings after Dwayne Allman died.

Just a number of really noted musical figures.

And there was this wonderful environment that Graham grew up on.

I was working on Cher at Sunset Sound.

And, uh, her Black Rose record when she was, you know, for, for an hour she was trying to be a rock artist, right? Um, Les Dudek was her boyfriend at the time.

Mm.

And they, they did a album called Black Rose.

The song we're going to play, by the way, by them is Jessica, which Betts wrote, but...

We learned when we had Les Dudek on the show that he contributed quite a bit to that song.

Yeah, he did some of the acoustic guitar work in some of the bridges of the song.

I think it's called The Bridge.