Cameron Knowler

Explores Pre-Bluegrass Flatpicking Guitar  Cameron Knowler, an expert on pre-bluegrass guitar styles, wants you to know that guitars have feelings, too. So much so that he’s written a brilliant guitar method book by that same name. To support that and his many other projects, Knowler created a private press and webstore called Rural Guitar to help you get in touch with your instrument’s deepest emotions and feelings. Along the way, the affable desert son will show you aspects of early flatpicking and thumb-fingerpick single-note styles, the original G-runs, and unique chording techniques from pre-bluegrass guitarists like George Riley Puckett and Lonnie Johnson that echo hauntingly through modern guitar breaks from Doc Watson, Del McCoury, Billy Strings, Norman Blake, and many more. Or he’s just as likely to play you an original instrumental on Norman Blake’s ornately decorated 1933 LC Century of Progress model Gibson guitar that is now in Knowler’s care. Knowler’