Country Chicken Pickers Compilation Volume 1

This collection displays some of the greatest country guitar players that utilize the style of "chicken picking" or "hybrid picking". Please comment on other chicken pickers you would like to see in volume 2!

Original Videos:

[rttrtt]

I have never seen so many Telecasters in one place !

[MattPedlar]

Love that Glen Campbell calls out to himself ‘play it Glen” 😂

[dnews]

No great picker list is ever complete without Jerry Reed. So glad to see him in this one.

[mechcavandy]

Glen Campbell. The general public doesn’t known how good he really was.

[timcole]

These guys should try this style on a Telecaster.

[aniquinstark]

That Tele twang will never get old. It's as integral to country music as the banjo or fiddle at this point in history

[jcm]

I’m primarily a rock guy but love the shit out of watching these guys chicken pick! Skaggs, Hiland, Gatton, hell all of em are good but no one beats Jerry Reed! Dude could run licks with Chet Atkins like it was nobody’s business and played the best portrayal of a truck driver ever put in the can.

[thejamnasium]

Redd Voelkart is a hidden gem of a guitarist.

[jimdandy]

It's a fine line between a good player and someone who just throws off a whole bunch of notes, quickly!

[WindEnergy]

Oh, man-you included Eddy Shaver with all those famous people-thank you. Once Kristofferson’s band complained to him that Eddy never played it the same way twice. Kris said, “Hell, Eddy don’t play it the same way once.”

[mytelecasterworld]

hey, no one told me there was a telecaster party goin' on in youtube....why didn't you call me????

[chrismudd]

I have always thought James Burton deserves way more recognition than he gets!!!

[TNTMan]

Love Johnny Hiland, pure country tone!

[oxygenable]

The Rory Hoffman clip at 7:25 is the sickest guitar virtuoso chicken picken I've ever seen/heard! Wow.

[michaelferreri]

Some of thee best playing you will EVER hear! I love this style of pickin’.

[robertbright]

You left out one ☝️ of the BEST The Great Junior Brown 🎸🎼

[sixstringcity]

Biggest surprise was Glenn Campbell killin it on that pretty blue stratocaster!

[brocklanders]

Gotta say - Glen Campbell is still the most musical and smooth with his solo phrasing.

[josefk]

I love almost all of these cats but that Brad Paisley solo was a train wreck.

[keithcunningham]

Albert Lee certainly belongs on this list. And while a contemporary of EC, I've always thought that Lee was faster than Slow Hand. So glad he's come out and started touring in his own right.