Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

When Buddy Holly recorded "It's So Easy," at Norman Petty's Clovis, New Mexico studio in 1958, he had session guitarist Tommy Allsup, a fellow Texan, play lead guitar. It was Allsup's first time playing with Buddy, and he wound up traveling as a "Cricket" for a while. Listen to Allsup's solo - it's brilliant. The song didn't chart until Linda Ronstadt recorded it in 1977, when it went to #5. This fingerpicking version, in E, has a Travis-style alternating thumb/bass, except for the boogie-bass line in the chorus.