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PHJim Joan Baez: Folk guitar (39) RE: Joan Baez: Folk guitar 28 Sep 15

For Carter Family songs like Gospel Ship, she'd pick the tune and runs with her thumb and strum chords with her fingers (Carter's Scratch)
She would use a Travis-style three finger picking both with thumb lead (Butcher Boy) and finger lead.
For ballads, she would often use a four finger arpeggio style:
TIMRMI or TIMIRIMI or TIMIRIMI or some other patterns, usually starting with the thumb. She would sometimes use what Peggy Seeger called the "lullaby lick" in 3/4 and 4/4.

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