Not the biggest country guy myself, but I am a guitar player and lately I'm all about the chickin pickin.

Danny Gatton

http://www.youtube.com/wa...N3i89Va3HE

Albert Lee

http://www.youtube.com/wa...qcUBdNaHq8

Brad Paisley

http://www.youtube.com/wa...y-Ipi1dnng

Now Prince fans aren't usually country fans, but I know there are some closet fans out there!! Show yourselves!

And not many people know Vince Gill plays really well, too! I didn't!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

These cats can blaze. Always dug Albert Lee. The Hellecatsers are great too.

I'll add a little something from...







...The Hellecasters





...John Jorgenson, Will Ray, & Jerry Donahue



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Chet Atkins...



...Mr. Sandman



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Merle Travis...



...Cannonball Rag



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Almost all these guys play Telecasters, too.

Like every guy with a Flying V makes the evil tooth-bared scream face

Just shows that there's really not that much difference between all the styles of music.

Country & jazz speak the same language at times, who'd a thought?
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theAudience said:

that's great, I know the name but never gave him any listen.

Is he using a kebob skewer as a whammy bar?

NDRU said:

Back in the day, most of the studio cats who played on the country records were really jazzers. They'd cut country records during the day and then play at the jazz clubs at night.

I just started working in the country market a few months ago and I have to say, some of the finest musicians (particularly the guitar players!) to ever walk the globe play country music!

Ol' Glen Campbell can lay down some chicken pickin' vocals along with his guitar, just messin' about!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...I6lzOQW5k0

Some more Albert Lee! Killin it!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...OFpQd7aJ9U

NDRU said:

Got DAMN the boy can play! I'm outta breath just watching him!

HOW ABOUT ROY CLARK
AND FREDDIE STONE (SLY & THE FAMILY STONE)?????

'Ya gotta add the king of the Nashville studio cats, Brent Mason (joined by my man Vince Gill): http://www.youtube.com/wa...eJHnkUKg_M

While we're at it, gotta include one of the godfathers of chicken pickin', the great James Burton: http://www.youtube.com/wa...cH5RGirn0k

Scotty Anderson: http://www.youtube.com/wa...PVgqGHCI8o

Roy Clark: http://www.youtube.com/wa...59g3pX-C_s

Jerry Reed: http://www.youtube.com/wa...OGiW-y-Vhs

JesseDezz said:

Thanks for those! Names I know, but haven't sought out.

A "New School" picker...



...Johnny Hiland
(notice the fingernails on his right hand and the slide mount on the guitar)


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I think this thread sets an org record for number of Telecasters!

theAudience said:

They ought to paint those nails black


Do you think most of these guys use compression? Their attack is so perfect & smooth, and the notes seem to ring, rather than plunk.

I know that the MXR Dynacomp was a mainstay in many a country player's arsenal.

Here's a pic of Brent Mason's pedalboard:
http://www.tdpri.com/foru...se-up.html

Vince Gill's:
http://www.myguitarplace....hp?t=18212

The Boss CS3 seems to be a popular choice...

JesseDezz said:

Cool, I use a Sparkedrive, just like Brent.

Vince must be endorsed by Boss! or not very adventurous.

As someone who has quite a standard blues/ rock style of playing, I am in awe of these guys who can make their fingers dance across all of the strings and seemingly never pluck a wrong note or catch an open string..and all the while make it sound so fluid.

I have been looking on YouTube for ages for a clip from a British music show from maybe the early 90's called Rocksteady which had Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins doing an instrumental finger-picking duet of House of the Rising Sun. It was amazing, pure class but do you think I can find a video of the damn thing?!

I personally am trying to work out a nice finger-picked solo-guitar version of The Road To Hell by Chris Rea, using double-stops to mimic the keyboard line. So far it sounds cool but my playing is a little too restricted in this style so I am struggling to finish it off properly. I also segue it into Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac, which has a similar riff to it. Or rather, it does the way I play them!

rocknrolldave said:

Yeah. not only are they playing incredibly fast, they're playing incredibly clean. It's like bebop, incredibly challenging.

rocknrolldave said:

No duet with Knopfler but the same song (for a bit)...



...with Chet & some other pretty good players


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theAudience said:

There's something about that song or the chord structure to it that just lends it to so many different interpretations, isn't there? I have heard it done fast, slow, punk etc etc.

Actually the clip with Knopfler, if my memory serves me correctly, they played it quite fast - almost like a ragtime piano piece kind of speed, if that makes sense.

Listening to this kind of clean, graceful playing just reminds me of how many mistakes I hide behind distortion in my own playing