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King Of The Mountain - My Cousin Rino brought this riff to me at our studio on our farm when I was about sixteen years old. He said, “check this chord position out. I can play the same fingering on about four positions on the guitar neck without having to move my fingers.” It was one of those hidden key moments that unlocks another drawer in the never ending quest of guitar knowledge. We never wrote anything using this configuration. I used it for warming my fingers up for shows through the years. But when this acoustic album presented itself, I decided to give Rino a call to finally do something with the riff. We sat down without an idea in mind, other than his original idea. After about ten minutes we had the skeleton of what would become an epic song. Rino played all the hooks in the recording and I would finish everything else, including the lyrics. Music is so timeless and this song is the proof.