re: #55 Picayune

Thanks, I missed your reference. I met Chet Atkins in the men’s locker room just before playing golf at a Nashville country club in ‘73. We we alone, and when I asked him about those that had influenced him, he named Les Paul first, though not the only source.

Merle Travis was one of Atkins’ earliest influences. He developed his finger picking style based on lestening to Travis. He didn’t do it the same way as Travis did (I think Atkins used three fingers instead of one or two on the right hand) but he came up with his own style because of that. Another innovator, both as a musician and recording engineer.