Full-time musician and frontman of Leadbetter Band chats about his approach to making music, gives advice to younger artists and reveals his earliest inspiration: Marty McFly. I grew up working on my family's cattle ranch, and so every time I got done working, I'd run back to my grandpa's house and I'd plug in my amplifier and crank my little boom box that I had — some Allman Brothers, Santana, Grateful Dead, Hendrix — and I would try and play along with it, jam along with it, and try to see if I could absorb any of those licks," Eric Leadbetter tells. He loved Creedence and The Doors, teaching himself how to play guitar by ear…

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