Great Acoustic Guitar Players

Muriel Anderson - Widely respected as the premier woman finger style guitarist on the scene today, Muriel Anderson is the first woman to have won the National Finger Picking Guitar Championship.

Bert Jansch - An immense fingerstyle talent, an inspiration to many fine guitarists, including Jimmy Page.

Rory Block - The girl sure can play acoustic blues. A strong, emotive vocalist and a very fine guitarist. Acoustic blues doesn't get any better than this. Outstanding, raw, pure and powerful, Rory Block will play 'til her fingernails bleed. Literally!

Roy Bookbinder - One of the most outstanding acoustic blues performers on the scene today.

Pat Donohue - “Pat Donohue is one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today...” Chet Atkins. Enough said!

Doyle Dykes - A guitar legend in the making. Although influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and musicians from the country of Chet Atkins to the rock and roll of Duane Eddy and the Beatles, Doyle has developed a distinct, recognizable sound that amazes audiences with skill while capturing hearts with sincerity and soul.

Tommy Emmanuel - Australian genius of the acoustic guitar. Some say the best player in the world! Certainly his live performances are completely awesome. See him if you can or buy a DVD if you can't. His website is a treat too, including cool tips and wise guitar homilies delivered via real video. If there's one acoustic guitarist playing today you can't afford to miss, it's Tommy Emmanuel. A stroke of luck for fans is that Tommy's on a perpetual world tour right now. He is liable to turn up at a theatre near you at any moment.

Paul Geremia - Another performer in the top rank of acoustic bluesmen. Always playing, be sure to catch his act when he blows into a town near you.

Richard Gilewitz - A great teacher, communicator and a damn fine fingerstyle player whose work encompasses and embraces many styles from Bach to Fahey. Richard is a real treat for fans of acoustic guitar.

Leo Kottke - One of the truly great and seminal influences in fingerstyle guitar.

Franco Morone - In his homeland, Italy, Franco Morone has long established himself as one of the most important representatives of fingerstyle guitar playing. He is not only a musician with a sensitive tonal vocabulary and a solid knowledge of the craft, but has also made himself a name as a teacher and author of educational books on fingerstyle technique.

Kelly Joe Phelps - Kelly Joe spent his early guitar playing years as a jazz player. In the early 90's he made a life-changing discovery in the blues music of players like Mississippi Fred McDowell. Widely recognised as one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world today.

Willie Salomon - a truly authentic acoustic blues voice and premier picker, specialising in roots fingerstyle blues. His album "Country Blues And More" (Acoustic Music Records) is one of the best new acoustic blues CD's we've heard in a long while.

Jacques Stotzem - The six string maestro from Belgium. A fantastic contemporary fingerstylist whose early influences included ragtime and blues. Whether on tour or in the studio, Jacques is simply magnifique.

John Sheehan- American wunderkind of all string driven things. Has one of the best reasons for wanting to be a fingerstyle player: "At 16 years old, hearing John Fahey and J S Bach, I realised there was something more important to me than baseball." Great player whose tabs are now available on the net. Visit johnsheehan.net for details.

Tim Sparks - 1993 National Fingerstyle Champion for his extraordinary adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite for fingerstyle guitar. Tim is at home in a wide variety of styles and is quite simply an inspiration.

Rick Payne - Rick Payne -blues and slide guitarist extraordinaire. Check out his fantastic acoustic blues. Listen now. Rick also writes a lot of tuition for AGW, including the best-selling 60 Day Fingerstyle Blues Camp

Woody Mann - Student of the legendary Gary Davis. A great performer and also teacher. Woody passes on the goods learned straight from the horse's mouth!

Eric Bibb - One of the brightest stars on the new blues scene. Bibb's smooth blues voice and superb guitar work give his songs an extra dimension.

Chris Smither - Chris Smither is a consummate singer/songwriter. He's always on tour and always plays passionately for his audiences.

Duck Baker - An insanely gifted acoustic guitarist. At home in a dizzy variety of styles ranging from folk to Celtic to medieval to blues to avante garde jazz. He has performed with bluesmen Charlie Musselwhite and Jerry Ricks.

John Hammond - One of handful of White blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-'60s. Hammond combines powerful guitar and harmonica playing with expressive vocals.

Bob Brozman - King of the National guitar. Great Delta blues player and an authority of Hawaiian guitar.

Ari Eisinger - Ari Eisinger is a guitarist and singer who plays blues from the 1920s and 1930s. Ari tours extensively, playing blues from the golden age in the northeast, the midwest and the south.

Keb' Mo' - Keb' Mo' has once again been named Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year at the Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Awards. Not only does he hold this title for both '97 and '98, his self-titled debut won Country/Acoustic Blues Album of the Year in 1995.

Michael Messer - One of the best acoustic slide players on the planet and a great educator to boot.

Martin Simpson - A legend and true master of the acoustic guitar. A Simpson gig is a sublime experience.

Brian Robertson - A superb slide player and webmaster of bigroadblues.com.

Tom Yoder - Acoustic guitarist extraordinaire. Hedges, Kottke & Bensusan rolled into one!

Keith Christmas - Exceptional English singer/songwriter and fabulous acoustic guitarist.

Thomas Lorenzo - a great latin jazz musician and distinctive fingerstyle player based in Barcelona. A kind of cross between Pat Metheny and Paco de Lucia

Eric Lugosch has been praised for his stellar guitar work and wonderful compositions in the prestigious magazines of guitar playing, "Fingerstyle Guitar" and "Acoustic Guitar", as well as reviewed locally and nationally for his performances and his recordings.

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