Great Guitarists

[Crank]

Bonnie Raitt - excellent slide player.

There are a couple of young female shredders around can't remember their names... Oriantha maybe.

Nancy Wilson is an excellent rhythm player.

Samantha Fish is a pretty good bluesey rock player.

Couple guys I missed in previous posts.

Junior brown and his home made "guitsteel" Penned some fun tunes too: On The Highway Patrol and, of course, MY Wife Thinks You're Dead.

Red Volkaert, another master of the telecaster.

+1 on Elliot Easton, some very intricate and original solos as well as great hooks. Freaking lefty.

 

[graham418]

Steve Dawson is a great acoustic player

 

[crgildart]

Best inversion guitar... (right strung guitar played upside down)
Doyle Bramhall with Roger Waters..


Best inversion bass

Waymon Tisdale (RIP). Also a hell of a basketball player.

 

[Snowfan]

Glen Campbell

 

[Crank]

Glen Campbell

Forgot about GC. He was a regular session player and member of the loose group of musicians in LA knows as The Wrecking Crew who played on just about everybody's records back in the 60's. Glen was probably the only one who could not read music. What they said about him though was you just had to play a song for him once and he had it.

Great book btw, The Wrecking Crew. Much better than the documentary.

 

[Steve]

No love for acoustic or classical?
Earl Klugh

And of course Andres Segovia..

Two of the best!!

 

[Andy Mink]

Charo plays guitar?!?

 

[Andy Mink]

And so does Dolly Parton

We saw her several years ago in Reno. She is a wonderful entertainer. You just want to go up and chat with her. She played, I think, 13 instruments that night and all at a high level. Her story telling is just amazing. And from everything I've read, she is just a great person.

 

[crgildart]

Anybody mention Roy Clark? He played guitar and banjo right? Probably so but don't recall seeing it when I quickly scrolled through.

 

[crgildart]

We saw her several years ago in Reno. She is a wonderful entertainer. You just want to go up and chat with her. She played, I think, 13 instruments that night and all at a high level. Her story telling is just amazing. And from everything I've read, she is just a great person.

Legit American Treasure!

 

[SpikeDog]

Eric Johnson. I don't know a lot about guitar playing but the tone and how clean this is blows me away. As one comment said, "I can play that. From the part where he said Thank You."

Had the privilege of seeing Eric Johnson this January in Salt Lake City at a small club (The State Room). It was his first date of a planned 2020 tour, so plenty of energy from Eric and his band. He played two sets, with over 20 songs total. Hearing "Cliffs of Dover" live was fantastic; at least 9 minutes long. First heard of Eric from the G3 album from about 1997.

 

[Andy Mink]

Had the privilege of seeing Eric Johnson this January in Salt Lake City at a small club (The State Room). It was his first date of a planned 2020 tour, so plenty of energy from Eric and his band. He played two sets, with over 20 songs total. Hearing "Cliffs of Dover" live was fantastic; at least 9 minutes long. First heard of Eric from the G3 album from about 1997.

I first heard of him on the Wii Guitar Hero. Cliffs of Dover was the song and it was like, whoa!

 

[Michael Kane]

Rodrigo y Gabriela

 

[Michael Kane]

 

[johnnyvw]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Joe Bonamassa. He did an interesting concert at Carnegie Hall, this song with an amazing cellist:

 

[Crank]

Molly Tuttle, another great bluegrasser who happens to be female.

Here she is demoing a new model for Fender.

 

[johnnyvw]

Don Felder and Joe Walsh guitar duels!

Don't know how many people know this, but Joe Walsh got his classical music influence from his mother, who was a practice pianist for the New York Ballet.

 

[Andy Mink]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Joe Bonamassa. He did an interesting concert at Carnegie Hall, this song with an amazing cellist:

Wow! That was some smokin' cello!

Why are cellos better than violins? They burn longer.

 

[johnnyvw]

That's terrible...LOL

 

[Tominator]

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