THE RAGGED ACOUSTIC PURITAN

Julio Rey cites watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show as the moment he got hooked on rock and roll. “I wasn’t four years old yet,” he says. “I remember playing a toy ‘Beatles’ guitar to family members in our apartment in New York City. I raked the toy guitar and sang along to my two Beatles records.” At 14, he took up the guitar and wrote his first song; at 16, he became a Christian; at 18, he got an electric guitar and amp and proceeded to blow the amp’...