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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    thought I'd link this, not so much cos it's outstanding technical playing, but more just how good the guitar can be in the right context:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qomNoN7MCYg

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • BigLicks67BigLicks67 Frets: 763
    There's the usual stuff by Bert & Pierre but here's a couple of well executed covers on YT which I came across whilst working out these 2 songs this last couple of weeks.




    & another one I tried to learn a while back and failed.

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  • RoysterdoysterRoysterdoyster Frets: 607
    Eric Johnson

    Once upon a time in Texas

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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 29588
    pjf said:
    Chuck some John Martyn in there! "May You Never" and the perhaps not-so-appropriately titled "Easy Blues"...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZf-ptmi2U
    I popped in to say May you Never. There are plenty of others, but nothing moves me like that one. 
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  • TedTed Frets: 126
    p90fool said:
    pjf said:
    Chuck some John Martyn in there! "May You Never" and the perhaps not-so-appropriately titled "Easy Blues"...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZf-ptmi2U
    I popped in to say May you Never. There are plenty of others, but nothing moves me like that one. 
    Thanks! he really gives that guitar a voice.
    If he had done that 'live': simaltaneous on the acoustic and vocals that is additionally impressive.
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  • pjfpjf Frets: 304
    Ted said:
    p90fool said:
    pjf said:
    Chuck some John Martyn in there! "May You Never" and the perhaps not-so-appropriately titled "Easy Blues"...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZf-ptmi2U
    I popped in to say May you Never. There are plenty of others, but nothing moves me like that one. 
    Thanks! he really gives that guitar a voice.
    If he had done that 'live': simaltaneous on the acoustic and vocals that is additionally impressive.
    Here’s a live version, there are a few on YT! 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUv21JGaUw
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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5721
    Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 29588
    Ted said:
    p90fool said:
    pjf said:
    Chuck some John Martyn in there! "May You Never" and the perhaps not-so-appropriately titled "Easy Blues"...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZf-ptmi2U
    I popped in to say May you Never. There are plenty of others, but nothing moves me like that one. 
    Thanks! he really gives that guitar a voice.
    If he had done that 'live': simaltaneous on the acoustic and vocals that is additionally impressive.
    That album version was recorded "live" in the studio in one take with at 2am when the rest of the album was already mixed and mastered. That's why it's such a mesmeric performance rather than a compiled, constructed song.

    In fact the whole Solid Air album was done in eight days, having Danny Thompson and Rabbit Bundrick doubtless helped. 
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  • Danny1969Danny1969 Frets: 9752
    mmm Paul Simon is a brilliant acoustic player, massively unrated !

    What about John Mayer 


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  • xDottorexDottore Frets: 274
    I've got into bluegrass and flat-picking styles recently and, while there are many obvious guitarists to reference, I came across this guy, Bob Minner, who has beautiful tone and touch. Here is his version of the Missouri Waltz, which I first got to know from the musical gathering scene in Winter's Bone.



    You need an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

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  • TedTed Frets: 126
    Dottore said:
    I've got into bluegrass and flat-picking styles recently and, while there are many obvious guitarists to reference, I came across this guy, Bob Minner, who has beautiful tone and touch. Here is his version of the Missouri Waltz, which I first got to know from the musical gathering scene in Winter's Bone.


    Impressive - particularly if he was performing it faithfully from memory, without sight reading a sheet. His guitar looked like a Martin but did not appear to have the logo.
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  • pjfpjf Frets: 304
    Ted said:
    Dottore said:
    I've got into bluegrass and flat-picking styles recently and, while there are many obvious guitarists to reference, I came across this guy, Bob Minner, who has beautiful tone and touch. Here is his version of the Missouri Waltz, which I first got to know from the musical gathering scene in Winter's Bone.


    Impressive - particularly if he was performing it faithfully from memory, without sight reading a sheet. His guitar looked like a Martin but did not appear to have the logo.
    Could be a Pre-War
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    The AMAZING Gareth Pearson!

    https://youtu.be/9rCNQNDBAvY
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    From the British folk scene, check out Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, John Renbourn, Martin Simpson and more recently Sam Carter, Jim Moray and Alasdair Roberts.

    If it's jaw-dropping virtuosity you're after: https://davidyoungs.net/

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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3380
    Stuckfast said:
    From the British folk scene, check out Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, John Renbourn, Martin Simpson and more recently Sam Carter, Jim Moray and Alasdair Roberts.

    Davey Graham, Bert Jansch as well.
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4843
    Sadly he passed away many years ago but Eric Roche remains one of the few acoustic guitar players who played real music on a guitar.
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

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  • captainbeeffartcaptainbeeffart Frets: 343
    Anything by davey graham he was the man on acoustic imho
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5819
    Some random bloke on YouTube..





    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • Jimbro66Jimbro66 Frets: 2394
    viz said:
    The AMAZING Gareth Pearson!

    https://youtu.be/9rCNQNDBAvY
    Brilliant!!
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  • MagicPigDetectiveMagicPigDetective Frets: 2863
    Freebird said:
    Some random bloke on YouTube..





    Enjoyed that, a classic tune from a great album. Ride songs are amongst the handful of songs I’ve sung and played in public, I’m going to learn this one now 
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  • BigLicks67BigLicks67 Frets: 763
    Ted said:
    Dottore said:
    I've got into bluegrass and flat-picking styles recently and, while there are many obvious guitarists to reference, I came across this guy, Bob Minner, who has beautiful tone and touch. Here is his version of the Missouri Waltz, which I first got to know from the musical gathering scene in Winter's Bone.


    Impressive - particularly if he was performing it faithfully from memory, without sight reading a sheet. His guitar looked like a Martin but did not appear to have the logo.
    Hiroshi Suda Style 18.
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  • prlgmnrprlgmnr Frets: 3674
    One for the fingers:



    And one with a pick:


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  • Hurling_FruitmigHurling_Fruitmig Frets: 610
    This thread reminded me that I used to love listening to Michael Chapmans playing on his song Kodak Ghosts.
    I'll get a round to buying a 'real' guitar one day.
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  • stimpsonslostsonstimpsonslostson Frets: 5282
    Surely Clapton Unplugged deserves a mention. 

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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    stimpsonslostson said:
    Surely Clapton Unplugged deserves a mention. 


    I may be in an unpopular minority here but I think that's absolute shite.

    That's not great acoustic playing. It's mediocre electric playing on an acoustic guitar. He can't even fret the bloody notes cleanly.
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