Who are your favorite guitarists?

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 09:07 PM

I know it was a technical fad but I thought Stanly Jordon was quite unique playing the guitar like a piano. (both hands fingering at the same time.)

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: 53
Date: 26 Sep 01 - 08:06 PM

refresh. bob

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Kaleea
Date: 03 Jul 01 - 02:03 AM

NOT in any particular order, Tommy Emmanuel, Les Paul, don't forget Mary Ford!, Chet Atkins, Charro (she's a highly trained classical performer), Andre Segovia, Joe Pass, George Benson, Merle Travis, Christopher Parkening, Laurindo Almeida, Django Reinhardt, Stephen Bennett-the harp guitar is breathtaking, Pat Kirtley, B. B. King, and a certain hawaiian man I once knew.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,dreoilin
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 12:03 PM

Steve Cooney - definitely!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: mooman
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 07:15 PM

Did anyone mention Jed Foley yet? I was very impressed with his playing when I saw him with Patrick Street recently. And Howard Lees, a very tasteful player indeed.

Geez...I have so many favourites it's hard to pick individuals out but I agree with most of those mentioned above and will be checking out those who've been mentioned that I didn't know of before.

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 09:36 AM

Pierre Bensusan.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 12:44 PM

Thanks Flatop and steve.

Since this is for "favourite" guitarists, rather than "best" guitarists, I can leave out Tuck Andress, and probably 25 completely anonymous pickers who got married, had kids, and stayed local.

Favourites? Joseph Spence, Estil C Ball, Tony Quarrington, Eldon Shamblin, Bob Dylan, Charlie waller, Doc Watson.

And the great Alton Delmore.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Ian Stephenson
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 06:04 AM

Ian Carr, and Ed Boyd, -both mentioned earlier,
but also Jack Evans, from "the easy club". A guitarist with some really great chords in the right places, and a fantastic swingy style for accompanying trad tunes.

Ian s.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: uncle bill
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 04:35 AM

Chris Smither

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Lucius
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 03:11 AM

Martin Simpson, Ian Carr, Pat Donahue, Tony McMannus, Jon Renbourne, Arty McGlynn, Martin Carthy and just about any guitarist brave enough to face an audience without tons of electronic tom-foolery.

Lucius

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Greycap
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 02:18 AM

Don Reno, George Shuffler, Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, Tone Rice, Norman Blake, Dan Crary, Steve Kaufman,James Allen Shelton, Jody Stecher, Doc, Scotty Moore, Willie ( for economy )James Burton, Ricky Scaggs, Mark O'Connor...they all make my ears & hearing a most precious gift...my 2 cents worth

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Brakn
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 08:24 PM

I'm not gonna read this whole thread!

Some that I didn't see. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Webb, Zal Cleminson, Andy Partridge, Dave Gregory and Django.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Pontiac Joe
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 03:24 PM

Steve Latimer's list Plus, Doc Watson's Grandson Richard, steady rollin' Bob Margolin, George Gritzbach Jimmy Vaughn,Ry Cooder

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 05:25 PM

Actually Matt, I meant the JP Cormier who led the standing ovation for Tony McManus at the Celtic Colors Festival in Nova Scotia some years back. But yes, they are one and the same.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Steve N.
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 04:23 PM

Yep, a whole bunch of great guitarists. Listen to them all, then when you want to hear THE VERY BEST, go get anything Clarence White ever did!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Dancing Mom
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 02:54 PM

Thanks, Jaze, I'll look for "Among Friends" S

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 12:18 PM

You mean the J.P. Cormier who plays piano, guitar, fiddle, bass, drums, sing, etc AND sings "The Island"?

Yeah I've heard of him!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Sam Pirt
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 06:05 AM

J P Cormier is Excellent, I just forgot about the poor lad!

Cheers, Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: mooman
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 04:27 AM

J.P. Cormier? I have seen him live while in Cape Breton and have a couple of his CDs and he is a magician! Well worthy of inclusion in the list!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 12:47 AM

His cut on 6 Strings North of The Border is spectacular.

"JP"
- who has indeed heard of J.P. Cormier

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: simon-pierre
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 12:47 AM

Dave van Ronk and Kelly Joe Phelps. And Norman Blake, of course. And Peter Rowan. And Michael J. Browne. I want to p^lay like any of these.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 11:17 PM

Well, yes, Jon, over a hundred postings and no mention of the man himself, actually I was more amused to see that nobody on Mudcat apart from me has ever heard J P Cormier.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 10:40 PM

Murray, since when has ROTFLMAO meant Tony McMannus?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 10:29 PM

ROTFLMAO

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 09:58 PM

AK Rick,

How about Jeff's Goodbye Porkpie Hat. Unbelievable. And I mentioned Wes Montgomery.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 09:01 PM

Not at all, I love many things. Especially folk music thats why I frequent this FOLK MUSIC site,

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Benjamin
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 08:16 PM

Which is close to everything. Right Kendall?

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:23 PM

My favorites are mostly blind guys like

• Blind Blake
• Rev. Gary Davis
• Willie McTell
• Doc Watson
• Riley Puckett
• Merle Travis, who wasn't blind
• Blind Boy Fuller
• and a modern guy who isn't blind at all, Pat Donohue
• and another modern guy who definitely isn't blind, Stephen Bennet

I guess that about does it.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: mmm1a
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:14 PM

All of tthe above and Joe Perry

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Kim C
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 05:37 PM

Y'all don't make me come over there now...

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,AKRick
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 05:36 PM

I love so many of the previously named guitarist. Here's a few more ... Skip James (totally unique), Wes Montgomery (I can't believe he's unmentioned), Duck Baker (One of todays premier acoustic composer/performers), Jeff Beck ('Cuz We've Ended as Lovers'), Allan Holdsworth (also totally unique and unbelievable 'live'), John Scofield (Funky AND Soulful), and Steve Vai (Sure he's a shredder, but he can play beautiful ballads ... and I loved him with Zappa).

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: SDShad
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 04:00 PM

How dare I forget? Jody Stecher!

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 03:53 PM

Matt, I only hate the things I cant stand!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 03:51 PM

Two moreand I'll shet my 'tater trap! Two West Virginians - - Carl Rutherford and Richard Kessinger ( related to ther great old time fiddler, Clark Kessinger ).

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Codfish
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 03:48 PM

If you are talking bluegrass, the best are Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Doc and Ricky Scaggs.

If you mean country and rock, the best are James Burton and Albert Lee.

and if you mean the blues, Eric Clapton is in a class by himself.

The late Merle Watson was the best I ever heard on slide. Bonnie Raitt is great as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 03:46 PM

And Elizabeth Cotton...

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 03:45 PM

Hello [e-mail]

Gordon Quinton, I haven't heard that name in ages. He is quite good. I really liked his theme for "Land and Sea". How do you know his work? Are you a Newfoundlander?

Rob

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Erica Smith
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 02:41 PM

oh, Tony Rice . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 11:47 AM

Have another look, Walking Eagle; the great man's mentioned.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Walking Eagle
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 11:36 AM

What? No one has metioned John Lee Hooker! Unfortunately, the late JLH. How about Les Paul? Also for jazz, Monette Sudler.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 11:24 AM

Look at this! Kendall is telling ME about expansion! Kendall, everyone knows you are very narrow-minded in your musical tastes...expansion is something you know very little about. As for knowing as much as you do, I may get there someday, but I hope to go I don't learn to hate as much as you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Kim C
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 11:21 AM

But these go to eleven.....

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 08:38 AM

Matt, you are a reasonably bright young fella, so, I'll bet that when you have been around as long as I have, you will probably know almost as much as I do! BUT, you will have to get out of that ELO rut to expand! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 08:28 AM

A few names that haven't been mentioned - Charlie Patton, Freddie Roulette, Henry Townsend, Curley Weaver, Memphis Minnie and Skip James.

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 08:04 AM

English Jon . . I'd second that Ralph Jordan suggestion (Ralphie of Mudcat) . . Are you familiar with his days with Eric??

Damn them guy, he's also possibly the best duet 'tina player I've heard . .

Was Pierre Bensusan mentioned somewhere up there too?

G.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: jaze
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:26 AM

Dancing Mom, Have you heard the "Among Friends" cd by local Richmond folkies? It's great.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: English Jon
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:15 AM

That bloke in Metalica, yngwie malmsteen, blaze bailey from wolfsbane, martin carthy, Richard McGuire (lovingly crafted in fine bone china), john williams, paco pena, bob brosmann, jim correlli, napalm death, martin brown, kev duffy, I hear that loomes fellow is O.K. , nic jones, ralph jordan, jamie patterson, segovia, jake thakray, martin carthy again, those two miserable sods in fields of the nephilim.

EJ

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Finny
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 05:57 AM

Tommy Emanuel and Mark Knopfler (and myself...well, not really myself, but I love playing the guitar and getting absorbed by music...)

Finnabhair

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 05:06 AM

add one UK folkie, the master of "Celtic Flamenco": Mike Raven.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 12:44 AM

A very cool and unorthodox guitarist named Lee Van Leer is also one of my faves. He plays blues lead guitar using only the thumb of his fretting hand to shape the notes the right hand hits. And he pulls it off just great!