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Post by Riverman on Dec 5, 2017 14:58:49 GMT
Oh, and Brooks Williams. And Geoff Muldaur.
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Post by leoroberts on Dec 5, 2017 17:33:56 GMT
Also worth checking is Dougie MacLean...
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Post by jackorion on Dec 5, 2017 17:37:01 GMT
Bert Jansch
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Post by andrewjw on Dec 5, 2017 19:09:19 GMT
Many of the others already mentioned [some names new to me to investigate too! ]... Also...in no particular order Karine Polwart Mary Chapin Carpenter Steve Knightley Julia Fordham
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Post by thejamsinger on Dec 5, 2017 19:22:27 GMT
Forgot to mention Richard Smith also checkout The Kings of Strings on youtube. As for song writers there’s loads Paul Weller, Malcolm Young, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, to be honest there’s too many to list.
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Post by robmc on Dec 5, 2017 19:30:45 GMT
Surely the most important thing is to look cool, right? I therefore have to say Lenny Kravtiz Johnny Cash!
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Post by delb0y on Dec 5, 2017 21:08:50 GMT
Ted Hawkins!
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 6, 2017 8:16:54 GMT
Basically, you should go out and buy all this music. :-)
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Post by dreadnought28 on Dec 8, 2017 0:05:45 GMT
Lots of good names there, but not the one whose finger picking style I learned first. He’s no virtuoso but Tom Paxton meant a lot to a great many of my generation and earlier.
Paul Simon, Joan Baez, Dylan and Don McLean were my other main influences. A word also for Martin Simpson who remains the only person I’ve ever had a one to one lesson with, 3 hours at his London flat one afternoon in 1987. He taught me that afternoon about economical use of my left hand when shaping chords. Priceless advice I’ve used ever since.
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Post by stringdriventhing on Dec 8, 2017 1:29:03 GMT
Blind Blake, Skip James, Blind Boy Fuller, John Fahey, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne, Nick Drake, Alasdair Roberts
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Post by Cams on Dec 8, 2017 9:45:29 GMT
The first artist that made me think about acoustic guitar was Suzanne Vega. The one that sent me running to the guitar shop was Bert Jansch when I saw the Acoustic Routes documentary in 1991, so that would have included Duck Baker, John Renbourn, Wizz Jones, Martin Carthy, Al Stewart amongst others.
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 8, 2017 10:14:25 GMT
For learning ragtime guitar Blind Boy Fuller is a good place to start - reasonably accessible technique that sounds good. It’s all in the timing.
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Post by Phil Taylor on Dec 8, 2017 10:15:25 GMT
Far too many to list but when I sold my electric guitar and got into acoustic stuff it was due to Steve Howe, James Taylor then Stefan Grossman and the Kicking Mule stable of guitarists including Duck Baker, Leo Wijnkamp, Dave Evans followed Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn etc. moving on to Woody Mann, Martin Simpson, Gordon Giltrap and others. I have quite a few CD's by Tommy Emmanuel which contain some superb melodic music but I seem to have gone off him big time. I have seen him twice over the last few years and he was awful to my ears and hugely overshadowed by his guest Martin Taylor and Clive Carroll. The flashyness of him has become tiresome and his sound terrible. Anyway I digress, I am currently listening a lot to CD's by Clive Carrol, Eric Skye, Isato Nakagawa, Simon Fox, Julian Lage, Martin Taylor, Trevor Gordon Hall. No singers at the moment although I do quite like Sam Carter's acoustic stuff and I am getting Martin Simpson's new album for Chrissy Phil
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Post by jangarrack on Dec 8, 2017 11:04:27 GMT
Interesting comment regarding Tommy Emmanuel as I also have seen him live twice and while he is undoubtedly a brilliant guitarist and thoroughly engaging personality, for me once the wow had peaked, his style of playing seemed to be beyond my ability to appreciate. It did not inspire me as other guitarists do as I felt the music kind of got lost in all the tricks and wizardry. I thought I was probably in a minority of 1 with this.
Any way, back to favourite guitarists, here are a few of mine who I have not seen mentioned yet.
Fingerstyle players - Marcel Dadi, Jerry Reed, Buster B Jones, Michael Neverisky, Bobby Gibson, Julie Ellison (another recent discovery for me)
Electric players - Tim Renwick, Chris Parks (Any Trouble)
Also one of my long time all round favourites who often gets overlooked, but who plays a mean guitar and other instruments is Jo Brown, check out his Jiggery Pokery album. Another great all rounder of course is Mark Knopfler.
I would like to emphasise that my use of the word favourite simply relates to players I enjoy and does not imply any opinion on levels of skill or talent.
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Post by martinrowe on Dec 8, 2017 11:38:12 GMT
What I really liked, and used to listen to a lot, was Bob Dylan's acoustic playing on the Freewheelin LP. There were all sorts of styles and easy chords - not that I could play the songs. I read recently that his guitar playing has 'drive' - I think that's right. After that there was a really good acoustic guitar ragtime LP that cost a pound called Picture Rags that had John James, Peter Berryman. Rev Gary Davis and others. I still like both of those.
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