But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
