Rick, brilliant and insightful as he is in every endeavor, has brought something really important out, when he connected Bach with folk lead guitar, and it ought to be reemphasized-- The melodies that folk musicians work with are the same kind of melodies that Bach worked with, and he took these sort of musical ideas and developed and expanded them in ways that can be easily used in playing folk, rock, blues, and Jazz music.

The odd thing is that folk musicians (who are also composers, because they create a lot of the ideas that they play) can draw much more directly from Bach than classical musicians, because classical composers have another 300 years of musical ideas that they have to deal with--