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Many of the older guitarists were classically trained. Bob Wills employed several excellent guitar players that could play arpeggios all day long. I sat down with Chet Atkins and Tommy Immanuel at a Chet Atkins appreciation society meeting and was blown away with their talent. Steven King is probably the most talented fingerpicker in the world and is extremely amicable. At the Chet Atkins meetings we used to see the pickers from all over in a small closed environment that would trade licks and techniques. I lost my interest in the meetings when Chet passed away. The list of talented guitar players would be pages long. Ironic that Jerry Reed, Vince Gill and Glen Campbell are not even mentioned but bets are anyone that picks will tell one that they are some of the best. Sebastians' Nashville Cats ode I thought was an honest rockers take on Nashville musicians. One other personal note, one of my clients recorded at Fame at the Shoals and thought Duane Allman was the most talented of all the guitar players she ever saw...and she sang backup for Clapton, Harrison, Elvis, Cher, Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks(the Band), Albert King, Willie Nelson, Boz Scaggs, The Box Tops, and Carl Perkins. What could have Robert Johnson done with a Strat or a Les Paul?