Well Big Al, I'll ignore the abuse,its a little harsh I thought especially when you can't know the first thing about me or my guitar playing. For your edification however,let me list a few guitarists, who I think might blow away the three names mentioned above, Brooks Robertson, Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Robinson, Richard Smith, Buster B Jones, Martin Taylor, Earl Klugh, Frank Vignola, Doyle Doykes, Pete Huttlinger, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Steve Hicks, and these are just the ones I can remember. All the above are instrumentalist pure and simple. I'm sorry but Messrs Simpson, Carthy and Gaughan are not even on the Radar.