Rebecca Laird, Mojo Girl
20-year-old Katy guitar slinger could be a budding Bonnie Raitt.
During the competition, Laird will perform one song in which she plays electric guitar over a recorded backing track and another song on acoustic guitar.
"I'm sticking with the same backing track I've used in all the other competitions this year, a slow blues," Laird explains, "but I actually composed something of my own for the acoustic portion. Part of what we get scored on is originality, so I thought I'd make up an original piece of my own for that."
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One side effect of the competition Laird is already feeling has been her prizes. As the winner of the regional competition, where she shot down players from Austin, Dallas and Phoenix, she got a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, a Gibson acoustic guitar, two amplifiers, some Shure microphones and a year's supply of guitar strings. But the pot at the end of the rainbow waits in Los Angeles.
"First prize is $25,000, and on top of that is another $25,000 in gear," she says. "Winning that would be huge."
Noting the windfall she's already received from her wins in competition this year, Laird says, "Whatever happens in L.A., this year my taxes are going to be crazy."
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