Guitar Styles of Western Kentucky Muhlenberg County, Kentucky is one of the great wellsprings of American music. Near the beginning of the 1900s, a handful of local guitarists such as Kennedy Jones, Arnold Schultz, and Amos Johnson began playing the guitar is a picking style that utilized the right hand thumb to play a heavy four-beat rhythm on the bass strings while the first finger played melody. Mose Rager and Ike Everly further developed the style, eventually known as thumbpicking, into a highly polished method of playing everything from Folk songs to Blues to Tin Pan Alley tunes. Rager and Everly were mentors to dozens of guitarists in and around Drakesboro, Kentucky. This video features performances by: Steve Rector, Paul Moseley, Pat Kirtley, Tommy Owens & Maurice Jones, Bob Saxton, Moon Mullins, and Larry Stone. 52 minutes, DVD