The godmother of bass: Carol Kaye remains one of our idols to this day.
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Born in 1935 in Everett, Washington, Carol Kaye began playing guitar at 13, gigging at 14, and was on the road with a big band at 18. “My husband was the bass player and I was the guitar player,” she told BP a while back. “We travelled and played in the nicest places throughout the country. I was young, but back then, at 18, you grew up fast. When you were born in the Depression years, there were no entitlements. If you wanted to eat, you got out and worked.”