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If there is a form of music that I've been ingnoring based on ignorance I'm willing to give it a try. I'm sure that I can learn something from it.
@koneguitarist , I'm already looking forward to tonight's show.
But it if you enjoy it, keep on doing it. Don’t get hung up on the genre name. Country with a rock flavor? Why not?
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But about Country guitar, there is a misconception that it's all speedy chicken picking like Brad Paisley, Brent Mason the style made popular by believe it or not English guitarists Albert Lee and Ray Flacke, who stole from Jimmy Bryant and the Bakersfield guys James Burton, Roy Nicholls and Don Rich.
Country guitar solos in early days were more bluesy and jazzy than specifically Country, players from Hank Williams and Bob Will's bands generally played Gibson and Gretsch arch tops. Joe Maphis used Mosrite twin necks for example.
Merle Travis came out with his own style which Chet Atkins refined, again much more complex than most would think. But the most important aspect was solo must fit the song and not be a vehicle to show off, hence quite often solo would be shared between sometimes 2-3 players on different instruments, which made a short snappy solo lead into something else quite cool but as country bands slimmed down from 7-8 PC bands down to about 5 solos for the individual got longer.
Then you had the guys like Roy Clark tearing it up. He was a monster player.
But I digress nowadays on what we think of as real country not the shit that comes out of Nashville pop machine, the guitarists use Les Pauls, PRS, strats whatever they feel like as its not about the guitar it's about the feel again. Listen to Chris Knights first album, the guitarist is David Grissom on a PRS and a Marshall, as country as it gets but listen to the guitar playing, it's nothing like Albert Lee and co.
Harmony solos are back in style as they were in the 50's. Anyway here's a couple of vids for you.
Echoing what @koneguitarist says above, country is very broad church.
The very eary country pre-war country / Western swing players came from a jazz background and usually played archtops (there were no Teles!).
Most of the classic Nashville country was played on Gretschs or Gibsons, and there are some fabulous players, such as Hank Garland, Grady Martin and Chet.
I don't know if they eschewed Fender's because they were not "proper" guitars, or perhaps like the first generation of Chicago Blues players they favoured more expensive instruments.
The introduction of the Tele into country was really down to the West Coast based country players (not surprises there as Fender were a Calfornian company) starting with the fabulous Jimmy Bryant, and then Buck Owens and Don Rich were probably the archetypal Tele twangers.
I saw Dave Grissom with Joe Ely in the 90's and he was fantastic. And one of only 3 players I've seen using a PRS at a "proper" gig, and by that I mean a gig I have paid money to specifically the see a band on the bill.
We have a rule in one band I polay with that every gig should include at least one trucking song!