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Article: Dakota Dave Hull: Voodoo King of the acoustic guitar.(Biography)
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- January 1, 2006
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"Dave is a glassy-eyed caffeine junkie out of the howling wilderness of North (or is it South?) Dakota who happens to be one of the best guitarists in the world," another Dave once intoned in that distinctive tongue known to linguists as Van Ronkish.
The first Dave, the subject of that oracular pronouncement, is one Dakota Dave Hull. He hails from Fargo, which is barely in North (not South) Dakota, butting up against the northward-flowing Red River which divides Fargo from its twin city Moorhead, in northwestern Minnesota on the far-eastern edge of the Great Plains. In truth, the "Dakota" part is mere biographical relic and colorful handle. He's lived in another, ...