I am 78yo, practicing for 65 of those years, and hope to learn to play that guitar someday. I am a lot better today, than I was at 18yo. All instruments take forever to learn, I enjoy practicing.
I’m 73 and started my guitar journey at 8. I’ve heard it said that the guitar is the easiest to play badly and the hardest to play well. I still practice around an hour a day. I hold no illusion of ever gaining complete mastery, but I still persist in my journey. That said, hang in there brother! 🎸
That's very encouraging for me to hear that. I'm 69yo and percentage-wise I've been "practicing" as much as you. A couple of years ago my focus shifted to 100% Jazz solo style guitar. (Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour for example). My brain and fingers don't react as well as they used to. I try and practice every night along with learning new material and it seems to take forever just to incrementally improve. Often times I become so discouraged and frustrated that I didn't start this new direction decades ago that I just want to hang it up. But I love it too much to do that and I can't NOT play. I get so stuck inside my head (Stinkin' Thinkin' I call it) about my age and the ultimate outcome that awaits us all that it affects my attitude and general outlook on life. So, (getting to the point of all this) it's nice to see your post. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, have mercy! This put such a big smile on my face. I had the privilege of playing piano in a band led by the late Freddie Russell, a member of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. He was a fine guy, too! Thanks, Paul and Michael and all of you.
Would you believe that they actually do mix these ? Not to take away from the musicianship at all. But every player is run through the soundboard into individual channels which are routed into a DAW as tracks then mixed down where digital enhancement is often done.
I've been practicing and playing in and out of Nashville, Texas tribudores and recordings and concerts or over 65. Yes, I play the piano. Many people say that they haven't heard the way I play piano since the 60's, And they were always wondering if they would ever hear someone played like that again?I continue playing that's the key !. and I know that all of you will understand this but it's like visiting an old frieno, once again, that's That's where you really find.The music is in between the note.S not how many notes you play?Good luck to all of you keep practicing.Keep playing and keep believing that one day you'll be really good.
Excellent job gentlemen. I’m happy to hear this style music again. I’ve always loved Chet’s style and you guys are awesome. Thank you for playing REAL American music
Did anyone happen to notice that there weren’t any big amps, foot pedals, distortion, echo, wah wahs shredding etc going on. Just pure unadulterated music. Everyone playing was a real pro. They were quiet, unassuming, ego less pro musicians doing what they do best
My dad played the guitar and he called this as runs and he was really good at the runs , he couldn’t read music but he could follow any of the old music , played on the radio during the 40’s. Dad lived to be 92 year,
I have seen Paul play many times at CAAS, and he was always one of my favorite pickers there...soooo smooth...Love this style of playing,,,I have been working at it for 60 years...still lots to learn !!
I have a feeling this will be great! AND I was correct! Real American music!!!!!!! LOVE it...... The buegrass state is well known for a few things -- darn good college basketball, beautiful and very fast horses, good music, and great whiskey! That was so good!!!! I liked the second tune the best!! Mountain music cannot be beat!!!! That coming from a man from West Virginia may not be right. But I know what I like. And I like this!!!!!! Saw that fiddle sir! This is our heritage boys & girls. Listen up!!!! This music should be in your blood... NOT only is Paul one fine guitar man, but he is FUNNY!!!!!!! Thank you whoever posted this!!!!!!!!.................
Tears of days gone by. Faded photographs weathered now with lines and creases. You wake up and time has slipped away, and now i think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs, but because of videos like this we will never die. What a dream i had pressed in organdy clothed in crinoline of smokey burgundy softer than the rain.
Glad my daddy taught me this style. Excellent picker and band. But we always used a heavier thumb, Iike Merle, Doc and Mississippi John Hurt. He had played with Doc, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker here in NC. Definitely love the style because you can just sit and be your own band.....
So amazing, forget a person's name but remember every note on a complicated guitar setup to play with an orchestra. Musical brains (67 years old) and still got it.
Grew up with those Chet records and have played for 55 years.. someday I will get better.. but Mr Moseley got it down , along with Mr Tommy Emmanuel , and a few great others..I was reading an article where some Irish players used an alternating thumb in the very early colonial days. Perhaps this is the early place it came from..
There are no better guitars for fingerpicking than those colourful Gretsches. His is a G6120 Chet Atkins with two Dynasonic pickups and a Bigsby vibrato unit.
I started picking at 8 years old and I am now 70 ,and I have learned a chord or two. I do know that taking banjo for a few years helped me tremendously.
I didn't know anything about all this thumb picking until I ran into Thom Bresh at a beach bar in Jacksonville and we talked a while about the whole thing. He was pretty passionate about it.
This is what they needed on CMT music awards show not that artificial synthesis music that drowns out the voice. The audience is not able to hear the words of the songs. That background music on TV is so discouraging, it makes me want to turn the show off. It really takes away the true talent of the performer.
Bravo from Namibia as well. Honest, soultouching, soothing.... real music by what I see as "true human beings". Not being familiar with BlueGrass, is this BlueGrass?
Years ago I went to a small town in Kentucky and cooked a couple of whole hogs. It was at the Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. Mr Paul was there! There was so much talent in that one place!!! Have a good one and May God bless y'all
I'd love to be on a back porch, in the country, late afternoon, sun goin' down, moon risin', spring or fall, with a tall glass of sweet tea, and my woman at my side, and this soothin' music just playin' non-stop.
Just love their music... great performance as I am 81yrs old and play guitar (and piano) so I appreciate their playing skills.... thanks for sharing.. cheers from Australia 🦘🦘 👍😄
I also enjoy how they take turns doing their part OR playing backing for the others. Paul I think after 57 years sir you may have this guitar thing down!! Plus Paul has a sense of humor. Love it!!!!!!
Beautiful music and I love watching and hearing techniques which are so different to theatre pipe organ which I've played all my life. This music makes me want to move my body, love it!
I learned this style in 1964, when I was eleven. The originator: Elizabeth Cotten. She was born in 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina. Now relatively well-known and celebrated for her “Cotten picking” style of fingerpicking guitar, Cotten was yet in her 60s by the time she became known as an important contributor to American folk music. Mother Maybelle Carter played a variation of her style.
Took lessons for 7 years as a kid from a guy in Sidney Ohio named Ed Ritter who was thumbpickin genius. He played that old Epiphone hollow through and Echoplex and a Champ, I had a dreadnought acoustic and a flat pick. He would say listen to this and keep up. Been keeping up for 50 years and still cant do that thumb deal, but I still try. You fellas got it down.
Wow! What an amazing performance, everybody and every bit. If you like music at all, are a fan of guitars and stringed instruments in general or just enjoy the human primate doing divine things, this video is for you! What a great counterpoint for all the nasty things people are capable of. Making beautiful music is, in my opinion, the single greatest ability we have. Science and language and math and all that stuff is inevitable and certainly comes from our brains, a result of intelligence and discovery, but such an abstract thing as music comes from the soul. I play various instruments and I can cite hundreds of good reasons for music. But really, I can't imagine, nor have I ever heard of any real evolutionary reason for music to exist. So, I like to consider us VERY fortunate that we can do it. Perhaps it is what will spur our evolution! Regardless, we have been blessed. What a great bunch of musicians. Thank you so much for posting!
I love hearing REAL music such as this. This man can sure pick and play! 👏 👏 👏 I also love Paul's gorgeous looking and sounding Gretsch guitar. It's a work of art.
This was some great playing! This group is 100% talented!
We love to hear Paul Moseley pick, and his quiet humor is an added bonus. On top of all that, he's a super nice guy.
I am 78yo, practicing for 65 of those years, and hope to learn to play that guitar someday. I am a lot better today, than I was at 18yo. All instruments take forever to learn, I enjoy practicing.
I’m 73 and started my guitar journey at 8. I’ve heard it said that the guitar is the easiest to play badly and the hardest to play well. I still practice around an hour a day. I hold no illusion of ever gaining complete mastery, but I still persist in my journey. That said, hang in there brother! 🎸
As a twenty year player of guitar I second that
That's very encouraging for me to hear that. I'm 69yo and percentage-wise I've been "practicing" as much as you.
A couple of years ago my focus shifted to 100% Jazz solo style guitar. (Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour for example). My brain and fingers don't react as well as they used to. I try and practice every night along with learning new material and it seems to take forever just to incrementally improve. Often times I become so discouraged and frustrated that I didn't start this new direction decades ago that I just want to hang it up.
But I love it too much to do that and I can't NOT play. I get so stuck inside my head (Stinkin' Thinkin' I call it) about my age and the ultimate outcome that awaits us all that it affects my attitude and general outlook on life. So, (getting to the point of all this) it's nice to see your post. Thanks for sharing.
@@hamiltonburger4574 keep playing pal
@@hamiltonburger4574 'We are each our own worst critic'
- Ellen Hendriksen
BRAVO, good old style AMERICAN style music. It's the soul of our country.
Oh, have mercy! This put such a big smile on my face. I had the privilege of playing piano in a band led by the late Freddie Russell, a member of the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. He was a fine guy, too! Thanks, Paul and Michael and all of you.
Very cool.
I bet you radiate on the eighty-eight.
AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!
Authentic music played by real musicians. No mixing, no digital enhancement, no multiple takes. Just raw talent.
Would you believe that they actually do mix these ? Not to take away from the musicianship at all. But every player is run through the soundboard into individual channels which are routed into a DAW as tracks then mixed down where digital enhancement is often done.
Waynee you nail it❤
I started playing at the age of 71 I turn 73 this year playing more than ever Vernon slide laptop dobro rock and roll
Wonderful! I could listen to these guys all night.
My Dad was 84 when he died, yet he was still practicing the harmonica and singing up until a week before his death. I miss that man and his wisdom.
thank you so much for honoring the great chet atkins with your talent he would be so pleased as i am.
My thoughts exactly!!
Merle Travis
@@jimberlygridder183 Of course... but this is one of Chet's signature songs! Did it every time I saw him!
I've been practicing and playing in and out of Nashville, Texas tribudores and recordings and concerts or over 65. Yes, I play the piano. Many people say that they haven't heard the way I play piano since the
60's, And they were always wondering if they would ever hear someone played like that again?I continue playing that's the key !. and I know that all of you will understand this but it's like visiting an old frieno, once again, that's That's where you really find.The music is in between the note.S not how many notes you play?Good luck to all of you keep practicing.Keep playing and keep believing that one day you'll be really good.
Very high caliber of playing. Superb. Bravo to all.
Excellent job gentlemen. I’m happy to hear this style music again. I’ve always loved Chet’s style and you guys are awesome. Thank you for playing REAL American music
Did anyone happen to notice that there weren’t any big amps, foot pedals, distortion, echo, wah wahs shredding etc going on. Just pure unadulterated music. Everyone playing was a real pro. They were quiet, unassuming, ego less pro musicians doing what they do best
My dad played the guitar and he called this as runs and he was really good at the runs , he couldn’t read music but he could follow any of the old music , played on the radio during the 40’s. Dad lived to be 92 year,
Beautiful Jam thank you
I have seen Paul play many times at CAAS, and he was always one of my favorite pickers there...soooo smooth...Love this style of playing,,,I have been working at it for 60 years...still lots to learn !!
Thousands of pickers learned from Merle. I was one of them. Still working on it!
Oh boy, effortless, rolling along cool music.
This is true talent!! Real country. Thank you gentlemen.
Now this is what you call original country music.. all you need now is the banjo and the mandolin and the fiddle and you are in
Enjoyed..!🎉
Wow - I just found this - I’m just a beginner and I love his sense of humor❤
I have a feeling this will be great! AND I was correct! Real American music!!!!!!! LOVE it......
The buegrass state is well known for a few things -- darn good college basketball, beautiful and very fast horses, good music, and great whiskey! That was so good!!!! I liked the second tune the best!! Mountain music cannot be beat!!!! That coming from a man from West Virginia may not be right. But I know what I like. And I like this!!!!!! Saw that fiddle sir! This is our heritage boys & girls. Listen up!!!! This music should be in your blood... NOT only is Paul one fine guitar man, but he is FUNNY!!!!!!! Thank you whoever posted this!!!!!!!!.................
I love the pure artistry combined with genuine humbleness. This is music nirvana.
This is some FINE pickin men!! Smooth as good Kentucky whiskey! Thank you men!!
I’m 84 and just learning to play again and I love your music. Some day - but he is so good, and so funny! Thank you🎉
Tears of days gone by. Faded photographs weathered now with lines and creases. You wake up and time has slipped away, and now i think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs, but because of videos like this we will never die. What a dream i had pressed in organdy clothed in crinoline of smokey burgundy softer than the rain.
Did you come up with that or is it a quote? Either way it’s amazing!
@@bodarville2510 thank you. All my favorite songs and my firm belief there is a poet in us all.
Mr Moseley, he's good ! and such a nice man !!
Playing is just brilliant from all players.!! Thank you.😊
Awesome picking! So smooth! Love it. 👍❤️
Love Paul and the group. I was a great fan of Chet and all of his students who still are my favorite style of picking. Keep on picking😊
👍 It's hard to beat a few tunes from Chet and Knoffler. Mark had to be a reincarnation of one the old time pickers.
Неповторимый стиль и звучание, большое спасибо! Вы прекрасные музыканты, дай бог вам крепкого здоровья, чтобы люди смогли слушать вас еще много лет!
Paul, listening to this reminds me of my cousin Freddie Russell. Seen you play music with him several times. Miss ole Joe!
lovely relaxing music
My dad picked this style hes been gone 6 years. He took me to see Chet Atkins on my 21st birthday I never learned the style . Thanks for the Memories
Glad my daddy taught me this style. Excellent picker and band. But we always used a heavier thumb, Iike Merle, Doc and Mississippi John Hurt. He had played with Doc, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker here in NC. Definitely love the style because you can just sit and be your own band.....
I love Paul! One of the kindest, most humble pickers on the planet! Great job my friend! ❤
Sweeter than candy. Thanks, guys. Beautiful.
Just plan wonderful picking. Love the tune
So amazing, forget a person's name but remember every note on a complicated guitar setup to play with an orchestra. Musical brains (67 years old) and still got it.
Some my earliest memories musically are listening to my dad and he was a thumb picker too.
Did you know my Kentucky buddy Bill Beauchamp ? A Thumbpicker & big Merle fan. Unfortunately, he passed a few years ago. Great music !
Wonderful performance! This is what I call music.
I was first introduced to this style of playing when I was in Vietnam, loved it then and still love it today.
Now THIS is music you can enjoy around the fire with a few friends and some moonshine...STUNNING...
Grew up with those Chet records and have played for 55 years.. someday I will get better.. but Mr Moseley got it down , along with Mr Tommy Emmanuel , and a few great others..I was reading an article where some Irish players used an alternating thumb in the very early colonial days. Perhaps this is the early place it came from..
-- Hell of a fiddle . . . compliments to Randy Lanham!
I'm 81 still beating on my mandolin, hope someday I learn to play it
Enjoy every minute it's in my hands
Love music
That is so mellow and easy on the ear.
Thanks for sharing
That's a trip when someone younger than I am talks about being old!
Righteous fellow babies. Rich with tradition and a lifetime of practice. Heavy with effort and talent.
There are no better guitars for fingerpicking than those colourful Gretsches. His is a G6120 Chet Atkins with two Dynasonic pickups and a Bigsby vibrato unit.
I started picking at 8 years old and I am now 70 ,and I have learned a chord or two. I do know that taking banjo for a few years helped me tremendously.
Groovy Baby 10-4 Always Keep a Song In Your Heart
I didn't know anything about all this thumb picking until I ran into Thom Bresh at a beach bar in Jacksonville and we talked a while about the whole thing. He was pretty passionate about it.
Excellent.
I was very impressed by your
Performance.
Best regard from Japan.
Absolutely awesome playing so enjoyable
Paul is a true humble gentleman
That's just incredible!
This is what they needed on CMT music awards show not that artificial synthesis music that drowns out the voice. The audience is not able to hear the words of the songs. That background music on TV is so discouraging, it makes me want to turn the show off. It really takes away the true talent of the performer.
I dunno; I couldn't hear the vocals in this video, either.
Take it you lot are lucky enough to be in Nashville or Austin TX great great musicianship.". PICK IT BWOYS"
Yeehaw from Dublin Ireland
@@Dermot-ts5xx And *_sláinte_* from the USA.
Bravo from Namibia as well. Honest, soultouching, soothing.... real music by what I see as "true human beings". Not being familiar with BlueGrass, is this BlueGrass?
Awesome! I would love too hear him and Mark Knoplher play together.
Another les Paul . Soul music . His heart is good.
This is the kind of music I grew up with. Love it
Hey guy's, that's beautiful music to me, love it!!
Years ago I went to a small town in Kentucky and cooked a couple of whole hogs. It was at the Thumbpickers Hall of Fame. Mr Paul was there! There was so much talent in that one place!!! Have a good one and May God bless y'all
That’s one gorgeous guitar. Beautiful. And the play no doubt
That there is some really beautiful music played by some exceptional musicians. What a treat! I really enjoyed that. Thank you so much !
I'd love to be on a back porch, in the country, late afternoon, sun goin' down, moon risin', spring or fall, with a tall glass of sweet tea, and my woman at my side, and this soothin' music just playin' non-stop.
That Gretsch country gentleman sounds sweet though don’t it? At least I think that’s a CG model. My dad had one way back when I was a youngin’😁
Great music ❤
Just love their music... great performance as I am 81yrs old and play guitar (and piano) so I appreciate their playing skills.... thanks for sharing.. cheers from Australia 🦘🦘 👍😄
Beautiful!
Listening is music is nice and joyful “ballade” to remember the times we were happy
Excellent. Just too good. This group is too good. Thanks for the music.
Simply wonderful,thx
I also enjoy how they take turns doing their part OR playing backing for the others. Paul I think after 57 years sir you may have this guitar thing down!! Plus Paul has a sense of humor. Love it!!!!!!
Wow! He's great!
Beautiful music and I love watching and hearing techniques which are so different to theatre pipe organ which I've played all my life. This music makes me want to move my body, love it!
Old school I love it
The first time I heard Chet Akins play thumb pickin, I was hooked
Beautiful
Sheer elegance, brio and delight!
I learned this style in 1964, when I was eleven. The originator:
Elizabeth Cotten. She was born in 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina. Now relatively well-known and celebrated for her “Cotten picking” style of fingerpicking guitar, Cotten was yet in her 60s by the time she became known as an important contributor to American folk music. Mother Maybelle Carter played a variation of her style.
Much needed in present time, awesome music,age no bar for lovely music
I'm 67 and love that plucking,sounds so pretty.
Why do you mention your age? What's plucking got to do with your age? 🙄
@@SweetChicagoGator when your younger,you don't appreciate plucking.
Very well played, these beautiful tunes! Thank you all.
So awesomely smooth which is rare!! Beautiful pickin!!!!
I'm 56 yo but I'm enjoying the picking please keep it up
Love the music. Thank you.
Loved this! I grew up listening to Chet and this brings back fond memories of my parents listening to the records in the evening.
Seriously good sounds here.
Absolutely brilliant, what talent!!!
Took lessons for 7 years as a kid from a guy in Sidney Ohio named Ed Ritter who was thumbpickin genius. He played that old Epiphone hollow through and Echoplex and a Champ, I had a dreadnought acoustic and a flat pick. He would say listen to this and keep up. Been keeping up for 50 years and still cant do that thumb deal, but I still try. You fellas got it down.
Such a treat. Thanks.
I love this music ,,,,first heard in a Singapore market 60 years ago played by Chet Atkins ....thanks guys !!
Wow! What an amazing performance, everybody and every bit. If you like music at all, are a fan of guitars and stringed instruments in general or just enjoy the human primate doing divine things, this video is for you! What a great counterpoint for all the nasty things people are capable of. Making beautiful music is, in my opinion, the single greatest ability we have. Science and language and math and all that stuff is inevitable and certainly comes from our brains, a result of intelligence and discovery, but such an abstract thing as music comes from the soul. I play various instruments and I can cite hundreds of good reasons for music. But really, I can't imagine, nor have I ever heard of any real evolutionary reason for music to exist. So, I like to consider us VERY fortunate that we can do it. Perhaps it is what will spur our evolution! Regardless, we have been blessed. What a great bunch of musicians. Thank you so much for posting!
Kudos ro every player. You done good. So enjoyable.
I love hearing REAL music such as this. This man can sure pick and play! 👏 👏 👏 I also love Paul's gorgeous looking and sounding Gretsch guitar. It's a work of art.
Wonderful
Good to hear the memories of the past,like that old Indian movie,,,hope to jam with you guys......
I love it ! Just GREAT MUSIC.....Thank you !
Dayuuum i just luv this style of bluegrass. Tap, tap, smile. Tap, tap ,sigh. Rinse and repeat.
Absolutely great. Thanks!