Originally Posted by: DraconusJLMI can pick out the sound of the fiddle easily enough. It's some of the tones coming from the guitar that have me wondering.[/quote]
Got it!
[quote=DraconusJLM]
I suspect it's a combination of chicken picking and "the tone in the fingers".
Definitely. Lots of double stop diads & bending. And a Tele on the bridge pickup into a compressor (or some kind of treble booster) into the front end of a loud Fender reverb amp!
Mike teaches some of those style licks from a different Yoakam tune.
https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=22294&s_id=1790