We can still catch all the fish we want," said Homer Fewox, 66 years old, "and we got good people to keep company with up here, some guitar pickers among them.

A flamboyant showman and guitar picker in the style of T-Bone Walker, Watson recorded throughout the 1950s and 1960s with some success.

A lifetime resident of Nashville, she was surrounded by the influences of early country music and the remaining vestiges of ragtime, particularly through the guitar pickers.

Without the street performers, the grifters and the guitar pickers, some people here say, the Quarter would be just T-shirt shops, restaurants, bars, strip clubs and art galleries that any street anywhere can have.

Every guitar picker in the country wanted to play like him, but none of them ever compared.

And there are more automatic slurs at any mention of Sarah Palin than there are guitar pickers in Nashville.

"Name McKinley Morganfield, nickname Muddy Water, Stovall's famous guitar picker," he proudly replied.

And in an addition built to house the Saturday night bluegrass show before the Everetts put up the barn, six guitar pickers are harmonizing with a mandolin.

Remember Steve Mann, that seminal 60's guitar picker?

The album contains a selection of traditional guitar pickers' tunes from Travis' native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and includes old standards, blues and rags.