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Jackson Maxwell

“Country Nirvana, I’m here for it”: The nylon-string guitar riff that has taken TikTok by storm – and been covered by John Mayer

Screenshots of John Mayer (left) and Hudson Freeman playing the latter's song, If You Know Me.

The video seems pretty unassuming at first glance – a guy standing in a field with an acoustic guitar; a dramatic, open blue sky behind him. Sure, he's holding a nylon-string, not quite your typical campfire acoustic, but it's a scene that can be found, say, in many a music video.

But Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Hudson Freeman, with the idyllic vista of rural Southern Indiana behind him, then digs into If You Know Me, an understated lament with a bulls-eye riff; one of those magic ones that hits you like a hammer from bar one.

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