LeadPhotoID --> 0 Bill Kirchen Today’s featured event: Hear Grammy-nominated “Titan of the Telecaster” Bill Kirchen at 8 tonight at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The Michigan native, 65, is still best known for co-founding the influential 1970s country-rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. His signature licks powered the group’s souped-up cover of “Hot Rod Lincoln” into the Billboard Top 10 and helped their version become an enduring and instantly recognizable hit. “When people who are writing the bios are saying, ‘Well, you’re kind of one of the founding fathers of what’s called Americana,’ at first I kind of came up short and went ‘Ahhhh …’ and then...
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