Tommy Emmanuel. Great technical guitarist.
for me:
JJ Cale
Paul Kossof
Micheal hedges
Now:
John McLaughlin
Grant Green
Kenny Burrell
John Scofield
Younger me:
Jimmy Page
Carlos Santana
Jimi Hendrix
Zappa
Leaving aside the obvious Clapton, Gilmour, etc., I’d nominate:
Glen Campbell
Bill Nelson
Dan Fogelberg
Malcolm Jones (Runrig)
We’re just writing down the names of guitar players, lads.
Yep, as opposed to footballists, cricketingers, egg chasists, political twats etc etc yadadda yadadda
Yeah you’re right, just listening to Dead Souls, his guitar riff is wonderful.
I’m at the caravan with very little internet cover. I put Tommy Emmanuel forward. Look up his guitar tutorial for Lady Madonna. He shows how to play first bass, then rhythm and then lead at the same time on his acoustic guitar. Very clever.
Carol Kaye is superb
Sean Costello.
Albert Cummings.
Melvin Taylor ….very well regarded in the music world as a guitarist guitarist.
Danny Gatton
Bert Jansch
Noel Gallagher
Danny Kirwan
Peter Green
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Charlie Patton
Robert Johnson
Hubert Sumlin
Elmore James
Robert Jr. Lockwood
Chuck Berry
Bo Diddly
Frank Zappa
Jimi Hendrix
Peter Green
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Dave Davies
Pete Townshend
Brian Setzer
Steve Hackett
David Gilmore
I could keep going and going, every player does something that makes me say “Fuck yeah”,
I was always impressed by the work of Phil Free