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Fave Acoustic Guitarists

chrismacmanus	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 11:06 AM I see there's plenty in this forum on the usual fave guitarists: Clapton, Steve Vai, Hendrix, etc., but give a thought to us simple folk with just a bit of hollow wood and strings to strum on. I'd have to list Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Mississippi John Hurt, Nick Drake, Paul Simon and Neil Young as a few great acousticers and fingerpickers...
Intergalacti...	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 11:08 AM hmm for finger pickin it has to be chet atkins or tommy emmanuel i honestly think those two are in a league of their own
Arthen	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 11:24 AM Neil Young and Noel Gallagher, though he plays electric, i just love the songs he writes on acoustic.
chrismacmanus	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 12:28 PM hmm, wouldn't necessarily say he was a good guitarist though
kredd	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 3:50 PM chet atkins rocks!!! ummm....ok, now that i think about it, i don't listen to any acoustic players. i guess i can't play. next...
DevonPowell	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 8:26 PM Adrian Legg, Doyle Dykes, Leo Kottke, Brooks Williams, Charlie Byrd, Ani Difranco, John Mayer, there's too many to list...
kingo	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 9:35 PM Richard Thompson. Unbelievable. Ian Anderson.
robbydadrummer	Date: May 13, 2004 @ 11:43 PM halaka, did you mean martin barre instead of ian? he is jethro tull's guitarist... and a good choice. i dig steve howe's acoustic guitar stuff a lot...
woodhead	Date: May 14, 2004 @ 1:15 AM robert johnson comes to my mind,
chrismacmanus	Date: May 14, 2004 @ 6:35 AM I'm in agreement with many of these, I didn't mention Kelly Joe Phelps, he played here in Belfast last year and blew me away, I just don't know how he plays what he does, he really is in a league of his own. If you haven't heard it you might wanna check out Paul Simon and Bert Jansch's recordings of Anji, nice use of a descending bassline on the A and E strings with harmony played over the rest, impressive if you can pull it off, annoying if you can't
kingo	Date: May 17, 2004 @ 8:53 AM Robby: no, I meant Ian. Ian plays acoustic guitar on pretty much every Tull record and on his solo stuff. Generally speaking Martin likes to stick to the electric, and he kicks ass in that regard. On early Tull stuff there was fantastic acoustic interplay between the two, but later on it's usually Ian on Acoustic and Martin on electric. Don't be arguin' with me about Tull trivia.
smooka	Date: May 19, 2004 @ 2:27 PM Leo Kottke, Joe Henry, Doc Watson, SRV, Jack Johnson to name a few. here on DM: devonpowell.dmusic.net chrismacmanus.dmusic.net ryanw.dmusic.com johngarza.dmusic.com countyfarm.dmusic.com clematisbros.dmusic.com blubat.dmusic.com mad props
smooka	Date: May 19, 2004 @ 2:37 PM notserp.dmusic.net I don't know how I slipped up on top dog
robbydadrummer	Date: May 19, 2004 @ 6:58 PM cool, halaka. i was wondering because martin did some really sweet acoustic stuff on the solo instrumental album he released last year. i really need to see JT live when they come through here again. they are one of the few i have always wanted to see, but haven't yet.
kingo	Date: May 20, 2004 @ 9:21 AM Robby: Tull's definitely worth seeing live. They're still really kicking ass that way. Unfortunately, though, for me it gets a little old seeing them repeatedly, because they ALWAYS do a bunch of their classics/standards/whatever, and there's only so many times a person needs to see Locomotive Breath/Aqualung/etc. done live. But definitely worth checking out a couple of times when they're around. I don't have Martin's solo instrumental album. Need to get it at some point. No doubt he's good, too.
chrismacmanus	Date: May 20, 2004 @ 10:39 AM too kind smooka
dkeifer	Date: May 21, 2004 @ 9:09 AM John Fahey did a bunch of really cool stuff. "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" is certainly worth looking into.
synthsect	Date: May 21, 2004 @ 10:31 AM robert johnson
jeddak	Date: May 21, 2004 @ 10:53 AM Ian Anderson, for sure. Richard Thompson - amen. Pete Townshend. hmm..guess I like the Brits... And [now my shredhead kicks in] John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Steve Morse, Strunz & Farah...
KirillGurtov...	Date: July 2, 2004 @ 3:31 AM Im very much inspired and listen to a lot of what Nick Drake does, also, the band Renaissance, Cressida, Camel, Eric Clapton, and if no one here has heard 12:5 by Daniel Gildenlow and Co., well, it's just a really beautiful live acoustic album.
mystery-machine	Date: July 3, 2004 @ 3:06 PM Robert Johnson is awesome! I like to listen to John McLaughlin, Neil Young and Stephen Stills. Ian Anderson-for sure! My FAVORITE is Jimmy Page.
chrismacmanus	Date: July 3, 2004 @ 3:11 PM If you're a Jimmy Page fan, check out Bert Jansch- it's who Page had a habbit of 'borrowing' from
mystery-machine	Date: July 3, 2004 @ 3:39 PM I'll do that.
rhthesinner	Date: July 4, 2004 @ 5:53 PM John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Paco Pena, Tim Buckley - to name but a few.
Smokindog	Date: July 27, 2004 @ 1:29 PM Robert johnson, Michael J. Hartman