Guitarist myself, passionate about the music of my time and this magical instrument. The guitar is a rather difficult instrument to play. I discovered this instrument around the age of 14, since I always wanted to play it and find my own style. Unfortunately I am not a Vertuose, but I really appreciate those who have a unique talent. I absolutely had to share my favorites with you and draw up a list of my best acoustic guitarists who inspired me. Since I like blues, finger picking, folk Celtic music. I simply wanted you to discover his unique talents which for those who appreciate the guitar will find a great source of inspiration.
Kelly Joe Phelps
Kelly Joe Phelps (born October 5, 1959, Sumner, Washington, United States) is an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.
Tommy Emmanuel
William Thomas Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known for his complex fingerstyle technique, energetic performances, and the use of percussive effects on the guitar.
Mike Dowling
Mike Dowling is an American roots music guitarist and songwriter who is best known for his solo arrangements on the Grammy Award-winning composition CD Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar. In 2005, Dowling was ranked as one of the twelve best fingerstyle guitarists in the United States.
Martin Simpson
Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voice on a spare picking style.
Tony McManus
Tony McManus (born 1965) is a guitarist from Paisley, Scotland who plays finger-style acoustic guitar arrangements of tunes from Celtic music, classical music, and other genres.
Pete Huttlinger
Peter John Huttlinger (June 22, 1961 – January 15, 2016) was an American guitarist.A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Huttlinger was a Nashville studio artist. In 2000, he won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. He performed around the world with such artists as John Denver, LeAnn Rimes and many others. As a solo artist, he performed across the U.S. and Europe.
Laurence Juber
Laurence Juber (born 12 November 1952) is an English musician who played guitar in the rock band Paul McCarney and Wings from 1978 to 1981. He has also worked as a fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician.
Kirk Lorange
Kirk Lorange is the one of the most successful professional guitarist and online guitar tutor in Australia. Kirk started playing guitar back in 1961. He was a 12 year old Canadian kid living in Belgium. He was already experimenting with home made drum kits, playing along to his dad’s big band LPs, but it was The Shadows’ instrumental Apache that triggered his life long obsession with the guitar.
Doyle Dykes
Doyle Dykes (born May 23, 1954) is an American country acoustic guitarist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is influenced by a wide variety of musical styles and musicians such as Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Duane Eddy, to the Beatles and U2.
Stephen Bennett
Stephen (James) Bennett (Known as Stephen Bennett) is an English musician, writer and film maker born in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. He plays various keyboards, drums and the guitar. He first came to public attention in the band LaHost in the 1980s as part of the New wave of progressive rock who had headlined at the Marquee Club in London.