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'- Foster McGinty With his rolling, curly brown hair and intensely dark eyes framing a hippie-vintage-rocker look, Foster McGinty shines in his life's role as both a 'knowing nod' to the wah-wah drenched days of old and a hopeful, promising look forward into the future of Rock & Roll. Foster's deep rock roots stretch from small town midwestern beginnings all the way to California and back to The Big Apple, where he now calls home. Long before Foster was a Guitar God to-be, he started by 'diggin' out my Dad's guitars in the basement, and bending the strings at five years old.

' Born in Memphis and raised in Missouri, Foster grew up in a family where several members played instruments and sang, but it wasn't until seventh grade that he ended up in the family music room and started 'fiddling around with the guitar.

' 'I think I actually wrote a song. I had no idea what I was doing, and it just gave me an incredible feeling,' he says of his childhood initiation to the world of Rock & Roll singer/songwriters. Foster's new 'feeling' was an all-consuming love for classic rock music and old blues that washed over him like a river overflowing its banks. Hendrix, Clapton, Dylan, and old blues legends like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters! all the greats filled Foster's head, heart and soul. It wasn't long after he stumbled headlong into music as his life's path that friends and family within Foster's circle joked that he was the skinny white-boy reincarnated spirit of Jimi Hendrix and Cream's love child. Foster's teen years were spent rehearsing for countless hours under the roof of his parent's tin barn with numerous bands, but Foster says he 'always preferred spending my time writing my own music and traveling down a path of musical expression.

' Foster co-wrote songs with his best friend in their junior and high school years but disbanded shortly after their first recording. Foster's dedication to music was on a much higher level, and he knew a change was coming. I Must Be On My Way 'To grow into the performer and songwriter I wanted to become, I had to leave my small town roots,' Foster says. 'I moved to St. Louis, formed a few different bands. I was still writing the music and having others do the lyrics and singing, but mainly we wasted time.

' Wasting time must have been what inspired Foster to head back home to Missouri less than a year later. Once settled back home, Foster's love for the artistry of Jimi Hendrix blossomed. In his apartment on the banks of the Mississippi River, Foster started to examine the guitar on a whole new level. 'I started exploring beyond songwriting,' he says. 'I wanted to be able to express myself on the spot.