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Artist: Bill Furner
I have played, recorded, composed for acoustic fingerstyle guitar for decades. [+] Read More
Artist: David Paul
At age nine, David Paul heard Chet Atkins' Guitar Genius album and his course was set. Years later, in 1982, Atkins himself said "David Paul could become one of best fingerstyle guitarists in the America." Paul has been turning heads in the fingerstyle guitar circles since the release of his first album (Picking Our Way) in 2003, and both... [+] Read More
Artist: Pat Shelby
Pat Shelby was born in Hampton, Iowa, and in 1990, began the study of fingerstyle guitar with Preston Reed. Not long after, he finished fourth in the 1993 Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Fingerstyle Guitar competition and narrowly missed winning an award as the 1993 Twin Cities Best Guitarist. The death of his father, however, changed Shelby's... [+] Read More
Artist: Max Rossi
All around composer, arranger, guitarist and keyboard player born in Siena (Italy) in 1969, now living in Paris (France). In the 90's, he founded the hard rock band CLOWNKILLER and he played as a fifth member with his all time mates MAD MICE (now MANTRA), scoring for them some strings arrangements for their first CD and playing keyboards and an... [+] Read More
Artist: Chris Bucheit
Acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Chris Bucheit began studying the six-string at the age of nine, later spending a decade as the frontman for the power pop band Big Citizen. He then turned to acoustic solo performance, drawing on an array of influences from pop to jazz to R&B to hone a style he dubbed "alternapopafolk; " in 1997, Bucheit released... [+] Read More
Artist: bwrash
Started playing guitar at 17, er...that was 1969. I wanted to be Bob Dylan, then I wanted to be Eric Clapton...Jimi Hendrix...Jimmy Page...etc. Then a funny thing happened. In 1974 a friend turned me on to Larry Coryells' "Restful Mind" album. I've never been the same. Stood me on my ear he did...Since then it's been Metheny, Benson,... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Ross
Canadian guitarist Don Ross has earned an impressive reputation for himself in the music world, both for his guitar composition and his techniques. He has even been listed by some as one of the world's top guitarists.
Ross was born in 1960. He inherited his love of music from his mother and father. When Ross was eight years old, he began his... [+] Read More
Artist: Rick Ruskin
Well-known acoustic guitarist Richard "Rick" Ruskin started crafting his remarkable skill with the guitar in 1962. He was born in Detroit, MI, where when only in his early teens he landed a gig opening at the Retort Coffee House for blues and gospel guitarist Reverend Gary Davis. The young Ruskin impressed Davis so much so that it became a case... [+] Read More
Artist: Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman is a pioneer in the art of the melodic clawhammer banjo. He has devoted countless hours to instructing other musicians, both through workshops and published works. Many of his peers regard his banjo instructional books as classics. Among these publications are Basic Clawhammer Banjo Solos, Melodic Clawhammer Banjo, and Clawhammer... [+] Read More
Artist: Richard Gilewitz
Gifted composer and fingerstyle guitarist Richard Gilewitz has trained with some of the best guitarists the United States has to offer. He learned well, and over the years, he himself has become the teacher to many others with his instructional video and songbook. Gilewitz has lived in Alabama, New Jersey, and Florida. He found musical... [+] Read More
Artist: Eric Roche
Fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Eric Roche was born in New York City on December 4, 1967, but raised in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He studied classical guitar in his youth but ultimately developed his own unique style, honing a percussive approach to polyphonic technique that embraced elements of folk, country, pop, and traditional Irish music.... [+] Read More
Artist: Edward Gerhard
Acoustic/fingerstyle guitarist Edward Gerhard is one of the genre's most gifted and highly regarded players. Although he currently resides in New England, Gerhard is originally from Philadelphia, where at the age of 14 he began playing guitar after being awestruck by the legendary Andrés Segovia. But it was another renowned guitarist, John... [+] Read More
Artist: Greg West
In the 70's I was influenced by two diametrically opposed influences: John Fahey and Robert Fripp. How one manages to merge those two influences has been the story of my music ever since.
Fahey was the father of fingerstyle guitar. Everyone from Leo Kottke to Michael Hedges owes Fahey. Before he came along, acoustic guitar was for... [+] Read More
Artist: Adrian Legg
East London-born Adrian Legg first learned to play the oboe as a youngster and then made a fateful switch to guitar during adolescence. Since then, he has established his reputation as a unique and highly technical fingerstyle guitarist with shades of classical, jazz, folk, country, and rock coloring his work. Though he has released several of... [+] Read More
Artist: Doyle Dykes
Influenced primarily by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, as well as bluegrass-style banjo, guitarist Doyle Dykes began performing around Florida with his gospel-group family when he was only a teenager; he was soon touring with the Crusaders and J.D. Sumner's Stamps. Dykes temporarily quit music to return home to Jacksonville, marry his high school... [+] Read More
Artist: Dan Schwartz
Musician Dan Schwartz is a prominent figure in the little-known instrument world of finger-style guitar. Schwartz grew up listening to a hodgepodge of music that included Keith Jarret, Tower of Power, and Devo. His curiosity and devotion lead him to Milwaukee, WI, to study at the state's University, the only collegiate school in the world to... [+] Read More
Artist: Billy Novick
Billy Novick is the penultimate woodwind and reeds player. Equally comfortable playing traditional Irish folk music (on the pennywhistle), New Orleans jazz (on clarinet and soprano sax), straight-ahead jazz, swing (on alto and soprano saxophones), and acoustic folk music (on clarinet and saxophone), Novick has maintained a seemingly impossible... [+] Read More
Artist: Badi Assad
Badi Assad (pronounced bah-jee Ah-Sahj) is one of Brazil's most talented performers. A heartfelt vocalist who sings in English and Portuguese and is known for her Bobby McFerrin-like improvisations, Assad is also one of the country's truly accomplished guitar players. In 1995, Assad was voted Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist by editors of... [+] Read More
Artist: Peter Siegel
Political commentary is set to a global range of musical influences by Northfield, MA-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Siegel. A finalist in the songwriting contest at Solarfest and the River (WRSI-FM) singer/songwriter contest, Siegel continues to balance both sides of his musical persona. His debut album, Move the Mob... [+] Read More
Artist: E.C. and Orna Ball
Husband-and-wife team E.C. and Orna Ball never matched groups like the Carter Family in popularity, but the Balls nonetheless made a significant, though quieter, contribution to the development of old-timey music and gospel. Unlike the Carters, the Balls seldom ventured far from their home on the Virginia-North Carolina boarder (in Rugby, VA)... [+] Read More
Artist: Laurence Juber
Acoustic guitarist, composer, and producer Laurence Juber, known by many of his fans simply as LJ, was born and raised in London. By the time he was 13, he began to earn money by performing at local get-togethers. A couple of years later he took up the study of classical guitar and then went on to earn a music degree from the London University,... [+] Read More
Artist: John Renbourn
Guitarist John Renbourn is one of the fathers of contemporary British folk music and is one of the finest fingerstyle players in the world. A founder of the seminal group Pentangle, Renbourn's music fuses British and Celtic folk with blues, jazz, British early music, classic guitar and Eastern styles.
Born and raised in Torquay, England,... [+] Read More
Artist: Al Petteway
Fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Al Petteway has been playing in bands since the early '70s. By the time he launched his own solo recording career in the '90s, Petteway had created an original playing style combining Celtic tunings and phrases with American themes. Petteway was bitten by the music bug at an early age due to the British Invasion... [+] Read More
Artist: Tim Sparks
Guitar virtuoso Tim Sparks was born October 31, 1954 in Winston-Salem, NC, taking his first music lessons from his moonshiner uncle; while attending the North Carolina School of the Arts, he also studied classical guitar with Andres Segovia protege Jesus Silva. Upon graduating in 1973, Sparks went on tour with an R&B band, and during a stop in... [+] Read More
Artist: Jean Bosco Mweda
A pioneer of African finger-style acoustic guitar playing, Jean Bosco Mwenda recorded more than 150 tunes between 1952 and 1962. Although he retreated from the recording studio for more than a quarter of a century, his return in 1988 showed that he had continued to grow as a guitarist and singer (in the Swahili language) during the hiatus.... [+] Read More
