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Perfection: Doug Raney - 'Lean Years' (1979)

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Marc Myers
Jul 10, 2025
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Guitarist Doug Raney was one of the greats. The son of guitarist Jimmy Raney, Doug spent much of his career in Copenhagen. Doug was a hard-wired addict. As his brother, Jon, told me soon after Doug's death in 2016, at age 59:

Doug was struggling with prior drug addiction and was on the program for a long time. But it was really his addiction to alcoh…

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