Ricky Byrd, who has played guitar with everyone from Joan Jett and Roger Daltrey to Paul McCartney and Ian Hunter, has been sober for more than 30 years now, but
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If you didn’t see a current picture of Daniel Donato, you’d swear he grew up in the parking lot of Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters sometime in the mid-‘70s, busking between
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