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Bill Harkleroad

Born: January 8, 1949

When Rolling Stone Senior Editor David Fricke published a list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, some readers might have been surprised to see someone called Zoot Horn Rollo outranking Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter, and Mick Ronson — not to mention pioneers like Lightnin’ Hopkins and Link Wray, bona fide rock stars like Neil Young, “player’s players” like the white-hot Danny Gatton, and dozens more. Zoot ... um, huh? What did one of America’s most respected rock critics know that legions of music fans didn’t? He knew that in 1968 an intellectually curious teenage guitar player in the L.A