Hi Iceboy. You already HAVE nailed Lemon's style. It's frustratingly difficult as a whole, but when you break it down into parts, it CAN be tackled. here's one little oddball trick. Find some recordings of the fine white blues guitarist (and contemporary of Lemon's) Dick Justice. His recordings are cleaner than lemon's and easier to learn from, and he plays the stuff virtually note for note (an amzing accomplishment)

Certain things have to be learned first though before you can apply them to a "lemon" song. That tremolo he does!! Yikes that's hard. Also you need to be fluent (I expect you are) in the "thumb-index" single string style. He's obviously big on "partial" chords, and as you mention, doesn't feel the need (always) to go from '6' to '2' before hittin' the '5'....or does he? Is he just playing some parts really quietly?

It's like a puzzle isn't it? Maddening, but great fun when you solve (parts of) it.

Cheers

Rick