Chick'n Pick'n can be done well on quite the assortment of electric guitars, actually.

Its been done by the greats using guitars as diverse as the old Gretsch Country Gentleman, just about all of the original 'planks' and there are even some examples of the jazzbox guitars being used as well.

There are quite a few guitars available these days that can fill the bill without breaking the bank account, and, of course, there are many tele clones out there.

The Gibson Blues Hawk guitar, with its own pickup selection with tone EQ on the rotary switch, is a sleeper in this regard that has the ability to do a lot more sounds, making it a studio session fav here.

Also the Epiphone "kat" series of guitars, my fav being the Alley Kat, which is now out of production but can sometimes be found used at attractive prices. I won't sell mine, it covers too much good territory in sound and can Chick'n pick better'n I can.

We live in fantastic times as far as guitars for the working musician go, I'm sitting here thinking about the young fella I saw in a band locally who was doin' the job as a Country lead guitarist quite well, actually, with a Yamaha Pacifica, of all things. And a Crate tube amp. He sounded great, not only on the chick'n pick, but with every other example found when doin' country covers.

So I think that what this grinds down to are two issues, actually.

One issue is the need to have a guitar that will turn in a good performance on the style at hand. That can cover a lot of territory, actually.

But there is the OTHER aspect of the thing, which may be more important to the individual player, and that is fulfilling whatever vision the individual may cherish as to what the type of guitar that will make them happy would be.


--Mac

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