Photos of Les Paul's Life in Music

Born in Wisconsin in 1915, the
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Tinkerer
Born in Wisconsin in 1915, the "Wizard of Waukesha" played country music gigs at a drive-in restaurant as a teenager. He experimented with electric amplification to reach the outdoors audience by placing a pickup behind the strings of his acoustic guitar and wiring it to a radio speaker.

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