Anybody remember Jimmy Rodgers? I barely do. I remember "Honeycomb" and this one:

[panader0]

It seems he only frets with his thumb.

[lovemydog]

1. Is he just fretting with his thumb for the 'slide guitar' effect?

I've never heard of him before now. I wonder if he played all his songs that way.

[panader0]

3. Not to be confused with Jimmie Rodgers, The "Singing Brakeman"

[melman]

10. He's using an open tuning so it only takes one finger to make a chord

Richie Havens did the same thing.

[lovemydog]

11. Thanks.

[panader0]

15. Yeah, but it severely limits what "chords" you can play.

No minors, sevenths, etc. It looks weird.

[Tom Ripley]

17. Richie Havens was the first though that came to mind when I read the OP

[Tom_Foolery]

2. Yep. I remember listening to him when I was a kid...

He was a pretty good entertainer.

[panader0]

4. Honeycomb--1957----I was 7 years old

[Tom_Foolery]

6. It was in the early 1960s...

Standing up in the front seat of a 1963 Chevy Impala as my dad drove us through the streets of L.A. with KHJ blasting "Honeycomb" from the little speaker in the dashboard. Of course, there are a lot of great songs that I heard for the first time in the same way. What memories!

[Art_from_Ark]

7. And a few years later, they used the song in a cereal commercial

[Tom_Foolery]

8. Man, I remember that like it was yesterday! n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

9. If the Honeycomb Kid had tried this today,

he would be arrested on two charges of child endangerment

[Tom_Foolery]

12. Exactly...

[RebelOne]

14. I remember it also. I was 18. n/t

[pipi_k]

13. My favorite

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. We loved him in our house. :)

I grew up listening to his albums. It was a happy surprise to hear one of his his songs in a recent commercial -- recognized his voice as soon as I heard it!