Eddie at the 2005 CAAS

Eddie Pennington, Folk Musician: Keeping alive the music of Merle Travis and the sound of traditional thumbstyle guitar

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The 2005 Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, provided pickers with a little taste of almost every guitar style imaginable, from flamenco to jazz to thumbstyle guitar. The only drawback to the convention was that there just wasn't enough time to see, hear, and do everything!


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Wayman Vickery enjoys thumbpicking and doesn't care to show it. Everybody loves Wayman!

Julian Smith plays with that Chet touch.

Roger Hardin picks one for the photographer.

Jason Simpson poses with his dad.

Jason makes beautiful guitars. Check him out at simpsonguitars.com

Michael O'Dorn shows off his Irish green R. C. Allen.

Michael shows a Travis chord in his workshop.

Craig Dobbins performs on stage two, playing a beautiful Beatles tune.

The Big Guy at work.

Eddie shares the history of the Muhlenberg sound.

Scott Taylor (left) was a big help with the sound. He's a great picker, too.

Rick Allred put on a show in the lobby with his Sands guitar.

Bob Saxton could be found playing in almost every corner.

Richard Kaiser picks a gospel tune.

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Eddie and Michael O'Dorn share a Travis tune.

It didn't take long for the room to fill up when the Travis pickin' started.

David Duncan and Paul Moseley played after Eddie and Michael.

The vendor's room

The Two Rivers Room was full of guitars. Here, we have Ken Miller Guitars.

The Hollenbeck Guitar table

Kunkel Guitars

Sands Guitars

Marge Rhodes and Tommy Flint share a tune in the lobby.

Richard Hudson picks one with Eddie.

Wayman shows off his Gibson Super 4000.

Tommy Emmanuel performed with Eddie during the Big Guy's show on the main stage.

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Eddie and Tommy pose at the end of the show

The infamous Rip poses with Eddie.

Tommy, Rip, Eddie, and Paul

Our friends from Muhlenberg County

Moon Mullins and Ben Hall. Ben got to perform on the main stage this year.

Billy and Gary Denham

John Standefer gave a tablature workshop on Saturday morning

Shane Adkins performed in the Wallace guitar room, and asked EP to help him out.

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