[Newbie] - Try to understand the style from a video

Hello,

I bumped into this performance of "All the best" by John Prine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBksI8zbhrg

[From 14:45 - 17:40] 

I can't understand how to obtain that sound: he uses the  clean right hand but it seems that he pulls up some  chords during the up strumming.
Can someone please, explain me?

Thanks

Thumb on the bass notes (E & A strings), fingertips grazing down & up on the upper strings.

|--------------------------------------------|
|-----5-5------5-5------5-5--------5-5----|
|-----4-4------4-4------4-4--------6-6----|
|-----6-6------6-6------6-6--------7-7----|
|-----7-7------7-7------7-7-----7---------|
|--7--------7--------7---------------------|

He's using a capo at the 4th fret to use C & F open chord shapes to play E & A chords.

Anders covers this technique in this tutorial from the acoustic course.

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson/29236

Hope that helps!

A unique voice - writing and singing - that I certainly miss.

I never did get to see him live, but I have watched live performances over the many years.  Nobody like him.

Rumble

thanks Christopher