I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.
It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.
Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.
Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
Yeah, I'd always wanted to do a song with finger-picked, nylon-string guitar.
I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.
My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation.
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
