Hannes Coetzee - Tea Spoon Slide Guitar

Hannes is a soft-spoken 62 year old whose job is tapping the aloes that grow around his Karoo hometown of Herbertsdale, South Africa for their medicinal juice. Hannes composes his own songs and learnt to play the guitar on the side of the hill when the aloes were too dry to tap and to keep himself company on long, lonely nights in the mountains of the Kamiesberg. His right-hand finger picking style is called "optel en knyp" (which translated from Afrikaans, Hannes' home language, is "pick up and pinch") and combined with his unique teaspoon slide technique, he ranks as one of the most unusual slide guitarists in the world. If you shut your eyes, you would think that there were two people accompanying each other on guitars.

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