Western Kentucky Pickers...

[dt414-kce]

Hey anybody out there from Western Kentucky/Southern Indy? I live in Owensboro and wanted to know if there were any other members close buy. Maybe we could get together for the Bluegrass Festival (Owensboro), W.C. Handy Blues Festival (Henderson), or BBQ Fest (Owensboro). I don't know if there any Taylor workshops coming soon but that would be a great place to meet and greet. I'ld drive just about anywhere to see Doyle Dykes or Chris Proctor play. I'm not a great player... I play contemperary worship music most of the time, but I love to talk about and look at guitars...especially Taylors or handbuilt luthiers. Hey... if anyone has a great shop around that might be a good place to get together. I'm sure the local owner won't mind. :D I know that Abba's Music in Henderson always has a pretty good selection of Taylors on hand. Let me know. I'm busy like the rest of you guys...48 hour shift job, 10 college hours, church, wife and two boys... but I'm sure I could get around to find some time for a good lunch and little playing on a Sat. afternoon.

[Manzanita]

Well, I don't get up thataway too often. You ever get near Murray? This area is supposed to be crawling with pickers but danged if I've found any.

[Pvee]

Do you know about the Kentucky Thumbpickers club in Louisville.

http://www.thumbpickers.org/

They have special guest from time to time and get together often.

Many of them attend the Mose Rager days and Merle Travis days celebration in Drakesboros,Ky.

They have the home of the legends Picking contest in August at Powderly Ky which is near Drakesboro and Greenville, Ky.

The acoustic Guitar Masters series runs through the winter months and is held in Elizabethtown Ky.

A bunch of great guys and good pickers.

I attend many of those events.

[dt414-kce]

Well, I don't get up thataway too often. You ever get near Murray? This area is supposed to be crawling with pickers but danged if I've found any.

I haven't ever been to Murray. This state is so darn long! :D

[dt414-kce]

Do you know about the Kentucky Thumbpickers club in Louisville.

http://www.thumbpickers.org/

They have special guest from time to time and get together often.

Many of them attend the Mose Rager days and Merle Travis days celebration in Drakesboros,Ky.

They have the home of the legends Picking contest in August at Powderly Ky which is near Drakesboro and Greenville, Ky.

The acoustic Guitar Masters series runs through the winter months and is held in Elizabethtown Ky.

A bunch of great guys and good pickers.

I attend many of those events.

Pvee,

Thanks for the link. Say..... you don't own a Pvee guitar do you? :D

[Pvee]

No, but I have a Peavey Classic 30 Amp..!!

I build tele style guitars with my logo on the headstock.


PTG,
a workin man's guitar !

[dt414-kce]

No, but I have a Peavey Classic 30 Amp..!!

I build tele style guitars with my logo on the headstock.


PTG,
a workin man's guitar !

Very cool... do you have any pictures? I had a Fender Custom Shop Tele about 12 years ago. I love those things! Very Vince Gill sounding.

[DeadHead]

I went to college in Murray.

There are a few of us AGF types up here in the Lexington, Louisville area as well. . ...

Someone organize a Ky get together dernit!

;)

[wingtip4]

I worked as a guitar player out of Nashville for 15 years, and Western KY. U. is my alma mater. As a folklorist and musician, I've enjoyed some encounters with thumbpicker extraordonaire Eddie Pennington, and some of my colleagues helped him get the National Heritage Fellows Award from the NEA.

Unfortunately, I'm living in Letcher Co., in Eastern KY right now or I'd join you. I get to enjoy banjo legend Lee Sexton's drop thumb style as his neighbor.

[wthurman]

I'm still (two years later) up for a Natural Bridge get together still in Slade... not only is it a beautiful, family oriented place, the Hemlock Lodge has a small meeting room that would be great for hanging out and playing. It's nice enough that it would even be worth it to people outside kentucky to travel to... truly.

[wingtip4]

Natural Bridge is doable for me.

[dt414-kce]

Wade,

Where is Slade, KY?

[wthurman]

Well, it's not in western Kentucky, but it's worth the trip.

If you take 64 East past Lexington and then the Mountain Pkwy south... it's on the edge of the Red River Gorge at Natural Bridge State Resort Park. It takes about 1.5 hours from Louisville... maybe a bit more.

Lots of nice hiking trails there for things other than guitar. They have cabins to rent as well as a lodge... thing is, it's kind of nice if you want to take a weekend and bring along family or others with interests other than guitars. I could see a couple of 3-4 hour sessions over an evening and a day.

But if we did that, we might be able to coax over some East Coasters and Ohioans... maybe a few more.

I can contact them for group rates if I get enough interest... I figure it would be kind of a loose thing, but it might really be a lot of fun to do something like that in such a beautiful setting. I'm thinking maybe something in September... so that we have time to pull people in and allow some planning. nothing like Monroestock... but my experience of these events is if you get more than five players, you really have something nice. If it turned out well, it could become an annual outing.

What say all you Kentuckians? :D

[deltoid]

I think that would be doable by most of us North Carolinians as well. Especially us northern, North Carolinians.

[DeadHead]

I'm in. ..

Wade let me know if there is anything I can do to assist.

I can bring a small PA?

Let me know. thanks.

[wthurman]

Well, it would sure be fun to see if we could get a few people, eh?

Let me call the park and see what they have to say about it - there are always other options, but it seems like this might be a nice one. Whether we need a PA is dependent really on what kind of get together it ends up being - whether it's sitting around a circle or having a kind of open mic event. My thinkin is at least the first time, it might be best to not, especially as the park is public and won't know quite what to think of us! :D

[DeadHead]

OK, sans PA (for now at least).

A sit in a circle guitar get together sounds nice.

I've got some friends that would probably want to come. They aren't AGF'ers but would probably become one following the event. Is that cool?

If I can assist Wade let me know.

[wthurman]

LOL - if AGF membership were a prerequisite, a lot of people would never have shown up at them!

[KyCabnetMkr]

I'd love to! I'm up at Auxier Ridge and Cloudsplitter on Trail 100 pretty frequently. Is this an acoustic only event or can the electric and line 6 come too???


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caesarstone@yahoo.com

[wthurman]

I'd love to! I'm up at Auxier Ridge and Cloudsplitter on Trail 100 pretty frequently. Is this an acoustic only event or can the electric and line 6 come too???


www.myspace.com/iraduncan
www.myspace.com/iralovesguitars
a1gp@excite.com
caesarstone@yahoo.com

Well, for the NBSRP folks, an acoustic event will probably be an easier sell... but I don't think there'd be a shortage of guitars to play. Email me and we'll talk. I'm headed out of town for a few days right now, but next week maybe a few of us can begin plannign in eanest. ;)