Merle Travis performs "Lost John"

Country fingerpicking great Merle Travis performs "Lost John." From the DVD "The Guitar of Merle Travis" taught by Marcel Dadi. More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com/products/...

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[MilesPittman]

How surprised would we be if the country stars of today could hold our attention like Merle Travis just did? And cause our feet to tap with only an acoustic and thumb pick!

[daffydoug]

Man I LOVE this old classic stuff! This is TRUE American music!!!

[Spencer Thonn]

How did this man know all these chords? He's so masterful, and such a cornerstone for my fingerpicking style. I could do it if I could ever know which chords he's actually playing!

[Shin Adamski]

Marle is Thumb and index finger

Chet is not there sound is lost, but all fingers

[67Bigsby]

A brilliant guitar player a great song writer and a charismatic performer very inspirational.

[MrRastamon731]

Incredible. Reminds me of my dad with those facial expressions lol. God bless

[Henry Johnson]

Amazing talent!

[Kornhulio18]

He pulls it of only with in index finger WOW

[mrrhum]

Well, he did use his index finger, too ;-)

[JudgeSturdy]

The Bowling Green in question is in south central Kentucky.

[simpe zulu]

Realy I didn't now for Merle until I've heard TE played that Nine pound hammer song. That got me here..and I am not surprised to see that some little things that Tommy does with guitar Merle did in early days...

[iamdanielcash]

Hey, it's called a "Double Thumb Arpeggio". You roll/strum your thumb over the 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd strings then pick the 2nd string with your index finger then roll over 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd again and then pick the 1st string with your index finger and repeat that with each of the chords. Hope that helps!