San Antonio Rose

Bob Wills' signature tune. I used to hear my dad play this tune on the fiddle when I was a kid. Then one day my mother came home with a record album, and one of the tunes was by Chet Atkins, picking it on the guitar. I went plumb outta my mind when I heard Chet playing it thumbstyle and spent the next several years trying to learn how. In those days, long before youtube and the plethora of tab books, playing that record over and over, picking up a few notes at a time is how most folks around home learned Chet's licks.