James Burton's trademark "chicken pickin'" style – brilliant, fresh and compact – l is a standout amongst the most special sounds in down home music, and a gigantic impact on shake guitar also. Burton got his begin when he was 14, stating "Susie Q," for Dale Hawkins, and turned into a high school star when he joined Ricky Nelson's band in 1957. With Nelson, Burton made his unmistakable method: He utilized a fingerpick and a flatpick, and supplanted the four most noteworthy strings on his Telecaster with banjo strings, so his guitar snapped, popped and stammered.
"I never purchased a Ricky Nelson record," Keith Richards said. "I purchased a James Burton record." In the late Seventies, he gathered Elvis' TCB band and turned into a go-to fellow on nation disapproved of records by Joni Mitchell and Gram Parsons, and still visits today. "He was only a strange person: 'Who is this person and why is he on every one of these records I like?'" says Joe Walsh. "His method was allimportant.
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