Spaw, JP is surpassingly competent on the ivories, and it has occurred to me that he calls himself "JustaPicker" only because it is not his primary virtuosity--

Merle didn't really get lessons from Ike Everly, but he watched Everly and his partner, Moses Rager, play a lot----According to Merle--the thumb and index style was the way that most of the players around the area of Muhlenburg Country, Kentucky played--most having learned it directly of Kennedy Jones, who apparently originated it--?