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[ Friday, November 21, 2003 ]
Jerry Reed’s Drive In
A couple of folks have been encouraging me to post a video of some guitar music, so here goes. This is a tune I really love to play, by Jerry Reed, recorded by the late Marcel Dadi, called Drive In. It is a very simple tune, by Reed standards, and it's just really cool. To me it's like a proud Saturday morning jaunt down Main Street, with just enough of a hint of darkness to make it interesting. I also had to make up a couple of variations and an ending to keep myself challenged. The fancy stuff up the neck is my doing - hope you like it!
This style of guitar is something you don't hear all that much of in everyday life. I think it was really brought to a fine art by Merle Travis, and then elevated to true greatness by Chet Atkins. When Jerry Reed brought his genius and country jazz sensibility to it, it certainly got my attention, and I learned just about everything Reed wrote. I used to play with the thumb and two fingers, with picks on all of them. Now I like to play with no picks, and the thumb and three fingers. Anyway, I love the stuff.
At the end of the video, I say I'll write it down so you can play it too. So there they are, above right. One in TablEdit format (better) and one in ASCII. Enjoy!
Also, if you like this, please go rate the video on YouTube where I posted it in January 2007 (far in the future - considering the date of this thing)
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you are better at the guitar than I remember you from so many years ago, and i thought you were great then. i don’t know if i can learn that tune since you’ll rememebr i was never that good at fingerpicking, but i’m going to try. maybe i’ll make a “music video” too 
Amazing! You are awesome on the gee-tar!
