1.   All manner of musicians, ranging from jazz virtuosos to folk guitar pickers, dropped by.

2.   He was a great guitar picker.

3.   Michael Stone is an articulate and intelligent man, but he pretends to be an ignorant backwoods guitar picker who pretends to be smarter than he looks.

4.   Parsons played in high school bands with Carlton and an impressive guitar picker named Jim Stafford.

5.   They were nitpickers, I told myself, not guitar pickers.

6.   Weekends and some afternoons find local guitar pickers under shade trees with chickens pecking at their feet.

7.   Clarence Ashley, meanwhile, was still singing his old-timey version and teaching it to guitar picker Doc Watson.

8.   Country guitar picker Chet Atkins, who died last June, and Stax records co-founder Jim Stewart also joined the hall.