PSG players using a flat pick?

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 30 Aug 2023 5:20 pm

Anyone stand out? Youtubes? ... or sans picks?

I think I know the answer...but I'm a lifer non pedal guy, faking it with my guitar chops.

I have a pile of picks...even the $30 Sammy Shelor...but those were used back in my banjo days 20 years ago when I could bend over and lift it out of the case.

I'm enjoying sit down console steel...but I go back to beginner level using the finger picks as it seems totally alien to banjo picking.

Andy Vance · Post by **Andy Vance** » 30 Aug 2023 5:35 pm

Mike Bourque is probably one of the best examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3NUSmcWQ0

You can find lots of him playing on AJ's Goodtime Bar YouTube channel.

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 30 Aug 2023 6:24 pm

Boogie Sherrard was a flatpick user and also a great guitar player. There was several YouTube videos with him playing steel. I seen him in St Louis ISGC and Knoxville Tennessee. Seriously great musician.

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 30 Aug 2023 6:29 pm

Jerry Guy used a flat pick. He also played a Tele. I haven't seen or heard anything of him in over 40 years. Don't know if he's playing somewhere or passed away?

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 30 Aug 2023 9:01 pm

See if you can find a video of the late Sid Hudson, He was one of the best if not the best.

When I was a kid there was a guy on one of the syndicated 30 minute country shows. They always showed close ups of his left hand. Can’t remember the show. It wasn’t The Wilburn Bros or Porter Wagoner but one of the others with a similar format.

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 30 Aug 2023 9:14 pm

Seems to me Dick Meis played steel with a flatpick.

I tried it a couple of times. Found I needed my index finger
more for picking notes.

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 30 Aug 2023 9:14 pm

thanks for all the replies to date. I'm finding some great stuff...and stuff I realized, that I had no idea existed. Just amazing you can find when pointed in the right directions.
Sid and Boogie are two, amazing stand outs! Finding plenty of stuff and giving me confidence to keep on my path of flat picks...for now at least

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 30 Aug 2023 9:30 pm

OMG Sid Hudson...rest his soul. Not being knowledgeable of the Nashville A team specifics and intimates..., back when...he had to be part of it. Tell me so.

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 31 Aug 2023 5:01 am

Sid was definitely from another planet. What whizz on guitar and steel. Boogie was also amazing. Mike Bourque is one of the younger hot pickers using a flatpick. Most of the guys doing this are also serious guitar players. Seems be adopted from that. I play guitar as well but decided early on to use fingerpicks because all my early heroes did. Plus I had already developed fingerstyle guitar in the Chet Atkins style so it was more natural for me.

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 31 Aug 2023 5:44 am

I saw vids where both Sid and Boogie did use finger picks....but those seemed to be the exception. It was glorious to hear their flat picking technique on the steel however. Definitely not a limitation that I could hear.
I think Sid may have been a better guitar player. There's a young gun named Tom Bukevac that has a resume and a never ending list of songs out of Nashville, that he played on. He's very good but yes; Sid is on another level while Tom is more rock oriented I would imagine. Was Sid more a session or a road player?... or probably both I'd guess?
Any rate...some excellent replies.
I also stumbled on a YouTube channel where a huge collection of 78 and some 33rpm records have been uploaded. Huge amounts of classic Hawiian steel and everything from Krupa to Goodman to everything in between. A pure gold mine of yesterday's music.

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 31 Aug 2023 5:47 am

Here is that YouTube channel, that might be of anyone's interest. Easily another lifetime could be spent just listening to clips on this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@konidolfine/featured

Chris Harwood · Post by **Chris Harwood** » 31 Aug 2023 5:47 am

EDIT: oops..double post

Might as well use it for a pic of my studio mates! (shameless photo dump!)

Larry Baker · Post by **Larry Baker** » 31 Aug 2023 3:15 pm

I thinkk that Bobbe Seymor played with finger picks.

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 31 Aug 2023 5:19 pm

Yes Junior Brown plays flat pick and two finger pics on his Guitar and Git-Steel and Hawaiian STeel and Pedal STeel; on all his albums. Here's the intro to his latest Git-steel with the steel being "Shobud" pedal steel>
https://youtu.be/m9Pjpi8Jv4s
Yes Junior played ShoBud pedal steel on all his albums with pedal steel also; with his Git-Steel.
Ricky

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 31 Aug 2023 5:40 pm

I told Sid once watching him had convinced me that the rest of us were doing it wrong. He got a good laugh out of that.