John Fahey wrote this song, didn't he? His recording is the first I know of. He's masterful at it too, but in a very different style -- more blues, less country.

Here's that Fahey one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJmBZ9R-uZu8fKM.html

If you don't become one with the instrument, you will never play like Leo.

But then you watch his fingers and realize.

Unreal

Kris Sweeting judging by your profile pic, it looks like this music turned you to the acoustic side after all haha

@@joemac8694 lmao ikr

I saw a guitar session with Syn Gates where he said he was influenced by Gypsy Jazz. I went and researched it and now have a Django Reinhardt station on pandora. 😆Metal is my all time favorite but there is a lot of other good music out there and i love discovering unfamiliar stuff.

@@zacattack500 There's a lot of good music out there in many (not all, lol) genres.. I've been a Leo Kottke fan for years, but I listen to trance, rock, blues, my dad is a big Django Reinhart/Stephano Grapelli fan..

That's progress my man. Metal is fucking dope but these older styles have so much to offer. I bet even learning some of these techniques will improve your metal playing.

Curt Wynkoop wow jealous, you just beat the lockdown

The ONLY thing you can dislike about this video (possibly) is the poor quality. Maybe.

I believe all videos that have undeserved dislikes are done by Russian hackers. Unemployed ones.

Yeah. This is just the way TV used to look years ago. Should of seen in the fifties!

Trump voters

What a hateful, un american thing to say. At least he keeps his campaign promises, ya brain washed Nazi puke.

Interesting take. 15 years later I think I'd agree with you in all respects except soul, which Fahey exudes totally more than Leo.

Lewie McNeely Leo is worth checking into if you like "gee-tar" music. He's a phenom.

Yep! I've been a Leo fan for 30 years or better. He is amazing and Doc was too in his own right. I like Leo's "Whitey and the chicken" A bunch! Tommy Emmanuel is center stage now I'd say. But I like to go back to 3 Dog Night and the old good stuff. Don't care about the new stuff at all except Iron Hoses's remakes.

+Lewie McNeely Last Steam Engine Train is a John Fahey composition. It's on KZfaq here. I loved both versions, and thought it was a little easier to learn by the John Fahey version because it's slower, and in that same tuning. Which I can't get a handle on at all what with all the opinions about just wich "Open G" tuning that is.

I've listened to some of John's tunes too and I always thought that Open "G" was just Open "G". I went down with #1 and up with the rest if I remember right. I didn't do much open stuff though. I'd have to hear it and us get our heads together on it. I like Leo's "chugging" extra part.

+Lewie McNeely Thanks Lewie. I was just watching him show some 12 string tecniques from a video he did just this year, and he just said, tune down 1.5 steps. Someone else said it was the same as "low D" down two steps? THat makes it even more confusing considering so many people call DADF#AD low D tuning (I know I do) Slack Key, or Hiiwian Tuning (all the same thing), but many times people confuse "Drop D" whit this too. I do notice when I play it in regular 440, I don't use the same chords. Puzzling to me.

Just take it really, really slow to begin with. (And don’t start with this song!) The first song I remember learning with the alternating thumb bass technique was “stack o’lee blues” by Mississippi John Hurt

@@MrJMooreable i can play this song just cant do thay part in the beggininging

Just in standard

For a badass beginner yes

You just have to cut your brain in half and let one half operate the thumb, and the other half operate the fingers. 😄