When record companies began recording rural American music for the emerging market of record buying country folk . The birth of County or "Hillbilly" music as they labeled it also brought to the recording microphone some innovators of te guitar - this episode will focus on a few of them - from the raggy flat picking of Riley Puckett, the amazing bass note simplicity of Alfred Karnes to the now forgotten virtuosity of Perry Bectel - tune in for some of hillbilly guitars early masters