Episode 135: “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel
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Folk Guitar - What's the Difference?
There are roughly three styles of acoustic folk guitar, to be clear. There's the simple style known as carter scratching, popularized by mother maybell carter of the carter family. In travis picking, the thumb alternates between two bass notes on the treble strings. And there's a third style, british barok folk guitar, which was largely the invention of davy graham.
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