My 10 favorite guitar players

• Blind Blake

  Traditional acoustic blues. Delightful lyrical interplay of voice and guitar.
  "Blind Blake : Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker" (Yazoo 1068)
  
  

• Lenny Breau

  Classical sound for jazz and beyond.
  "Mo' Breau" (Adelphi Records, AD 5012)
  http://www.guitarchives.com/guitarchives/lenny.htm
  http://www.enter.net/~paulkohler/lbreau.html
  
  

• Ry Cooder

  The legend of modern slide guitar.
  "Ry Cooder", "Boomer's story", "River rescue (The very best)" etc.
  
  

• Reverend Gary Davis

  Source of inspiration for generations of blues players.
  "Blues and Ragtime" (Shanachie 97024)
  
  

• Jorma Kaukonen

  Acoustic blues and modern folk.
  "Quah" (Relix Records 2027C) "Hot Tuna" (RCA & BMG 3864-2R)
  
  

• Leo Kottke

  The Beethoven of the guitar: he has broken all the traditional folk/blues forms by insisting on dynamics and development.
  From an interview: "How many voices do you hear? Three? Four? I only hear one: the voice of the guitar".
  "6- and 12- string guitar"
  Originally released on Takoma Records, reissued by Rhino Records (71612)
  If you have never heard of this album, I won't talk to you.
  
  Folk Book's Leo Kottke page
  http://web.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/folkbook/artists/biographies/Leo_Kottke
  The unofficial Kottke pages (OLGA)
  http://www.olga.net/acoustic/leo/
  An interview with Leo
  http://www.carleton.ca/~aprasad/kottke.html
  
  

• Wes Montgomery

  Bop innovator. The most inspiring jazz guitar player ever.
  "Incredible jazz guitar" (Riverside RLP 9320-OJCCD-036-2)
  http://www.glolink.com/WES/
  
  

• Joe Pass

  Jazz guitar master.
  "Virtuoso" (Pablo Records 2310.708)
  Title says it all.
  
  

• John Renbourn

  Blues baroque and traditional british music. Graceful.
  "The hermit" (Shanachie 97014)
  
  

• Stephen Stills

  Folk-rock legend. Haunting. Impossible to find an album spanning all the range of his talents. You've got to buy everything. Also, check out his playing in Joni Mitchell's records.
  
  

Some useful addresses for acoustic guitar players

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
	P.O.Box 802
	Sparta, NJ 07871, USA
	Tel. 1 (201) 729-5544
	Fax. 1 (201) 726-0568


Shanachie Records
	P.O.Box 208
	Newton, NJ 07860, USA
	Tel. 1 (201) 579-7763
	http://www.dmn.com/shanachie

The Crossroads Music Co.
	439, Newchurch Road
	Stacksteads, Bacup
	Lancashire, ENGLAND OL13 ONB
	Tel. 44 (1706) 875729
	Fax. 44 (1706) 877749


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