Do you attribute great music making with some kind of abnormality? Riley wasn't a great guitar player because he was blind! He had a sense of pitch, rhythm and harmony...get it? And he knew great players who played a new twist on what people already dug. If you are made of cement, you don't like gravel. Don't look for musical pretension in the Skillet Lickers! That was a party band! I listen to them for different reasons than Bach! Why waste your time looking for techniques when you should be creating your own musical vision/message? What better lesson is so obvious in their music? This is not a diversion like watching lame sports shit on television, pick up an instrument and show us. Flatpick or fingerpick, really, who cares? Just get it right and to hell with nonsense! The object is to move people!