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Renegades of Southern Rock. George performed his final performance with friend Candy Coburn on CW Network where he received a standing ovation. George was compiling songs for his next solo album which was to be titled "G=MC2" along with
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George McCorkle pursued music as a career after having been drafted into the Navy and serving from 1967 to 1968. Initially he had taught himself to play his older brother's guitar as a young teenager, mimicking the blues stylings of B.B. King and other artists he heard on the radio. At the age of
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