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Wah-Wah Watson
Legendary funk guitarist Wah Wah Watson was born Melvin Ragin in 1950 and raised
in Richmond, Virginia. Ragin moved to Detroit in the late 1960s and became a
member of The Funk Brothers, a group of session musicians who were Motown's
house band and collectively became one of the most successful bands in music
history, albeit anonymously.
While working in The Funk Brothers, Ragin developed his distinctive guitar style
defined by his creative use of the wah wah pedal, a guitar accessory which had
risen to prominence during the 1960s as the must-have piece of kit for funk and
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