JOE MAPHIS

Joe Maphis didn't name himself "King Of The Strings", he earned that title.
Equally at home on guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, Joe Maphis is best remembered for his outrageous electric picking on a custom-made Mosrite Doubleneck.
It's hard to talk about Joe Maphis without gushing.
Often credited with being the first country guitarist to flatpick fiddle tunes, Joe Maphis was an influence on Merle Travis, Jimmy Bryant, Chet Atkins, and all the hotshot country players that followed.
In addition to recording some incredible, speedy, and inhumanly precise guitar on his own LPs and with his wife Rose Lee Maphis, Joe backed countless country and rockabilly artists on stage and in the recording studio.
Joe's exemplary picking can be heard on tracks by Johnny Bond, Jimmy Boyd, Johnny Burnette, The Collins Kids, Don Deal, Bob Denton, Terry Fell, Ernie Freeman, Wanda Jackson, Rose Maddox, Ricky Nelson, Laura Lee Perkins, Jimmy Walker, and countless others.
Would it be an overstatement to call Joe Maphis a Total Guitar God?
Most certainly not. Joe Maphis IS a Guitar God, and don't you ever forget it.

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