Appalachian fingerpicking

Wayne Henderson is the Appalachian guitarist the Nashville pickers talk about, the one who lives in a very remote area of the Blue Ridge and makes those acoustic guitars with the amazing tone, the ones that are so hard to get. Sometimes Wayne's playing is mistaken for flatpicking but actually he uses a thumbpick and fingerpicks to achieve amazing speed and fluidity, transforming fiddle and banjo pieces and even the occasional jazz standard into stunning guitar solos. Wayne was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in 1995 in honor of both his fine playing and his exquisitely fashioned steel-string guitars. Henderson was born, raised and still lives in tiny Rugby, Virginia, in the White Top Mountain area of Grayson County near the North Carolina border, where he works as a rural delivery mailman. An accomplished guitarist, Wayne has won over 300 ribbons at various fiddlers' conventions including first place at the venerable Galax (VA) event 12 times. He has toured internationally with the United States Information Agency and performed at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution and for "America's Reunion," during the 1992 Presidential inauguration. Most often, though, he stays at home where he plays at his guitar shop and for local events.

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