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Thanks NELA, but that double barre doesn't work for me.  I smashed my ring finger but good with a hammer and absolutely obliterated that knuckle.  It bends forward, but it just won't bend back enough to do that second barre.  I have to do the A shapes with middle, pinky, ring fingers.

Negative.  Kris Kristoferson wrote Bobby McGee, but it was about the receptionist at Sun Records where (at the time) Kris Kristoferson was a janitor.  Her name, not surprisingly, was Bobby McGee. 

- Zurf

Destruction is in the ear of the listener.  Play it your way.  If someone thinks you destroyed it, that's their situation to deal with, not yours.

Shoot, artists bring different styles to their own songs.  Eric Clapton did an acoustic version of Layla.  Eagles did a flemenco version of Hotel California.  James Taylor has done a few versions of Steamroller and Damn This Traffic Jam.  Jimmy Buffett did a reggae version of Knees of My Heart and a stripped down acoustic version of Son of a Son of a Sailor.  The Police did a remake of Don't Stand So Close To Me with electronics and mixing. 

Then we've all heard covers by Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Jimmy Buffett, Willie Nelson, and the list goes on.

Clearly, it's OK to do covers in your own style. 

For a TRIBUTE band, they've got to be exact reproductions.  This is a musical trend that I do not appreciate.  Not against it, because if it's their thing then it's their thing and more power to them.  I'm just saying I don't appreciate it using appreciate in the sense of "Theatre Appreciation". 

- Zurf

London.

I think chicken picking might be what I've heard called chicken scratch.  George Thorogood uses it, as do some of the old bluesmen (who called it "scratching my back").  I'm not sure how they make the sound, but it's a staccato, muted scratch.  I think it involves scratching the side of the pick against the low strings kind of like you might do with a wood block.

Country Style to me is that Johnny Cash Boom-chika-boom sound.  Bass note, strum, alternate bass note. 

No clue about Travis picking, and no confidence in the other two answers.  I'm just setting up a straw man that others can shoot rubber bands at. 

- Zurf

Add to arpeggio that you are picking out individual notes OF A CHORD in either ascending or descending order.  If you pick the notes of a chord out of order, it's called an inversion. 

- Zurf

Funny, my guitar came strung with Yamaha strings and I couldn't get rid of them fast enough.  I guess this is why there are menus in restaurants.  Not everybody wants the same thing. 

- Zurf

Well, here's my idea on walk-ups or walk-downs in a bass line, and this comes from my bass playing and not my guitar playing.  I'm not skilled enough with the guitar to do a reasonable walk-down.  So, bear that in mind.

Let's say you're going from G to D.  I'd use the second and third notes in the G chord and then jump right to D (the fifth).  If you're playing a blues song, use a flatted third.  That's a practical walk-up. 

Sometimes what I like to do is to jump to the octave, so I'll play a low G on the third fret of the E string then jump up to the fifth fret on the D string to hit another G and then use the flatted seventh, the sixth, and then on down to the fifth.  There's a practical walk-down. 

Another bit of advice is that if you play your walk-ups and walk-downs really fast and hit a wrong note that isn't emphasized, you can just shrug and say "That's the blues, baby.  That's the blues." 

Anyway, the point is that I pretend that the base chord from which you're changing is a scale, and then I use select notes from that scale - mostly the second, the third (or flatted third), the fourth, and the flatted seventh (and less often the seventh, but that has a very bright feel to it and I am usually playing bass for folk or blues and don't want so much of a "major" feel - it works good for Country though). 

I'm not saying this is "right".  I'm just saying it's what I do.

Hope that helps.  If not, a person with actual knowledge will be along directly to help you. 

- Zurf

It's called Scouting.  Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, or Boys & Girls Clubs, do a tremendous amount of good in the world.  For my part, I like to help kids learn to fish.  I expect that it would be hard to be a gang-banger when you've been taught that even the life of a fish matters and deserves respect. 

- Zurf

Keep the round side down and the people side up.  Otherwise, enjoy!

- Zurf

Old Doll,

That water isn't too deep at all.  Both pictures are of the New River in West Virginia.  That big pool behind the campsite is about as deep as it gets there.  Maybe ten feet (three meters) deep.  Much of the river is merely inches deep at that time of year.   In the second picture with The Pyro River-rat he is sitting in an area known as Musky Alley because it is a deep channel between shallow edges.  There, deep means about five or six feet (roughly 2 meters). 

Mostly when sitting I use a spinning rod or baitcasting rod to fish.  I greatly prefer standing to fly-fish.  I have rigged a large canoe that allows me to stand and use my fly fishing rods. 

I love fishing at the shore.  Wading out into the surf and getting off a long cast to a breaker.  Those sea fish work hard all their lives fighting surf, tides, and currents with hardly any structure to protect them.  When they hit a lure or bait, there isn't much mistaking it.  Not sure about what you catch over there, but over here, there's no telling what kind of fish you'll get in the surf zone.  Sea trout, bluefish, striped bass, pompano, red drum (aka red snapper), black drum, croaker, spot, mullet, and some I'm sure to have forgotten.  Even saw some dolphin (the mahi-mahi type, not the Flipper type) just a few yards further than I could cast one time when there was a storm at sea and they came close to shore following the bait fish.  How I was wishing for my kayak then!!! 

You are right that I am blessed, and don't think I'm not grateful to the One from whom blessings flow either!!  Good friends, good times, cold beer.  Tough to beat.  Awful tough to beat. 

- Zurf