JAMES BURTON "TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN"

Here's a cool clip of Ricky Nelson on the "Ozzie and Harriet" show. A bit of tasteful "steel guitar style" backup from James on the first number (a ballad), but on "Truck Drivin' Man" you get to hear some of the earliest examples of Burton's chicken pickin' style. Unfortunately, there's some dated sitcom dialog obscuring part of Burton's solo, but plenty of great fills.

Here's my two cents-- if James Burton ever released a followup to his excellent first instructional dvd, and he demonstrated more of this kind of playing, I'd buy a copy and talk about it ad nauseam on this blog. If it will help, I'll buy two copies.