The most perfect and delicious version ever, too bad that it brought me to burn my guitar 🤣🤣

Wow, what a master full performance, you owned those strings my friend,. It's been 14 years since I last heard this , hope your ok and doing well, your friend Jim.

14yrs later still here watching and learning

Love your relaxed playing …excellent .😊

This is smokin HOT! From the music to the video editing and originality! Love this!

Quality playing here..

John, haven't see this or you in a while since I moved away. I just stumbled on it and had to write and say as everyone else has that this is fantastic and you are one of the best. Hope this finds you well and still playing. All the best, Paul

GREAT Job John.. Remember AFG Seminar I was honored to play with my duo Guitar Romantica and then you showed up. My mouth dropped - LOVE your playing..

Excellent performance.👏👏👏👍👍👍

Great performance.👍👏👍👏

I just recently got into thumb picking by learning doc watsons deep river blues, next up is gonna be sittin on top of the world or windy and warm... This song is going to come after though, beautiful arrangement. Also, that lick at the 1 minute mark is one of the smoothest moves on the guitar ive ever seen. Great performance!

I love it

John, i, just like you grew up on had ground. My family come from southeastern New Mexico, Hobbs, Carlsbad, El Paso and Borger Texas. We also made music to pass the time and because many family gathering were just for the joy of sharing that music. Some of the best memories of my life come from those times. I still play guitar and my children play music also, so we are making new memories for the future i am amazed that our last names are strikingly similar. My name is STANDIFER. I have kinfolks all over Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and bought we must be kin somewhere along the way. I enjoyed your video and wish I could play half as well as you do. Thanks for sharing.

bravo!!

The section at 00:57 seconds. Hits hard every time.

Haven't heard from you for a while john. Hope everything is good with you. Thanks for the music 🎵🎶 ❤️

Such tasty playing! I also enjoy how much it looks like you are enjoying playing. I’m right there enjoying it with you!

It seems easy, but your technique is perfect.

Bravo ! and the sound of your guitar is terrific. Could you give me the name of the brand ?

those smug looks do not add to your beautiful playing. lol

Wow! Just brilliant John. Great performance.

One of the most beautiful melodies for guitar ever written in my humble little opinion. Nato would be proud.

Well I never! I love it all expecially the grandstanding ;-)

Just to let y’all know who may not know, John is among many other things, a National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion (Winfield Winner). To win is no small feat, his playing shows the kind of musicianship that rises to the top!

Excellent! however can you do the same on a uke?

VERY NICE

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Very tight playing! The hundreds of hours of practice definitely show! Great job both of you 👍👍 and very nice performance!✨✨✨✨🐦

Very nice sounding ✨ and really interesting History !🎸🐦

Very nicely done!!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🐦

Sublime with wonderful variations.

Outstanding as always, John. I brought a cassette tape of Chet's version of Cascade to a guitar lesson, and you not only learned the tune in that hour, you taught me to play it as well. Yowzer. I'll never forget that day, 45 years ago in the Camas church. Thanks again for all you do.

just perfect rendition, with color and skill thanks John

Simply amazing

hi, i have a query. in the early noughties i studied in amsterdam and in the comp clusters i began lisnin to folkalley which back then had a track from '13 ways to live' as a staple piece. Over the years i tried a few times to track down the pedalsteel player for/on 'Cycles' ... He may have been a colleague of yours at Screen Door Music. Am i rite?

I have enjoyed your playing for years. I was wondering, you have your thumb pick fairly high on your right thumb. Does this enable you to use your bare thumb to play notes and also allow you to use the pick when playing "thumb style"?

Primo!! The tops! Thank you!!

John you be good .I love it me play but not that good

Grandioso. Dio ti benedica

John plays the most beautiful chords of anyone I've ever heard. They are a mix of jazz, blues, ragtime, country...and nuances...

SWEET

Spotless performance, Sir

Somebody should teach this guy how to play guitar! He straight-up murders it. I guarantee the guitar is more exhausted than he.

Still one of the nicest cleanest versions out there.

Beautiful playing, though a bit too upbeat arrangement for me. I find it a very sad song.

What a journey that was, listening to your version of this timeless classic! Subscribed.

This is smart advanced thinking and playing. Thanks John

Outstanding guitarist and a not only beautiful guitar… but one that rings like a bell. Thank you for your performance.

Never heard that hymn the deep love of Jesus but I am proud of you for honoring the saviour Jesus and not ashamed . Ok some great interpretations of Jerry's breakdown and wave ...excellent playing talents blends bends ...begins and the ends.

Thanks John for the video. I first heard your music on a record in the 70s in my late teens, early 20s in Vancouver, WA. My wife's uncle had Django records, Jimmy Rodgers, and Chet Atkins and taught me a lot about fingerstyle guitar playing. Thanks for the beautiful music and playing style. I love your videos too!