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So I went to see Tommy Emmanuel, and was promptly blown away. I'm going to buy a couple of his albums, but I'm also wondering what else to buy. I figure some Chet Atkins is a must, but I wouldn't know which albums to start with. Any other artists of similar caliber that you folks would reccomend? Albums to buy? Leo Kottke is a name that pops up from time to time, and Michael Hedges is another one of those artists that I've heard the odd song of, but don't own any actual albums by.

In short, reccomend me some artists and albums, peeps!

Segovia

I don't know if his music is available on CD but I'd suggest Rick Ruskin. He was the first finger style player I listened to back in the late 70's. He does a great version of "Good Vibrations" on his album "Six String Conspiracy". You might try a Google search. Another that has to be on the top of your list is Martin Simpson. Incredible guitarist. YMMV.

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Don Atwood
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Keith Hinchliffe - his album "Carolan's Dream" is, as the name implies, guitar arrangements of Carolan tunes. If you buy the accompanying book you'll realise virtually every one uses a different tuning, so there's even more to learn than you thought when you started!

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[QUOTE=bob J] Segovia[/QUOTE]



OK, let's rephrase: NON-CLASSICAL fingerstyle guitar. I've got some Segovia on CD, listen to it occasionally, and it's great stuff, but what I'm really looking for is steel-string, more modern stuff.

Michael Chapdelaine. One of the best classical fingerstylest I have ever heard. He is head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico. He studied under Segovia. He also a great steel string player and a very nice guy to boot. My granddaughter will be studing under him next year at UNM. You can check him out here.


www.michaelchapdelaine.com/

I can recommend a couple cd's. First I would say go over to the 13th fret and get a copy of their sampler cd. Then you get to hear a lot of handmade guitars as well as a lot of fine fingerpicking by some names you'll recognize around the fret.
I just bought a cd by Paul Asbell that is very nice and you can check him out right here on the OLF by going to the video page and watching Lance's video, he is the guy playing Lance's very first guitar.
If you are serious about learning to play in the Chet Atkins style, go to Home Spun Tapes they have several dvd's and videos on this very topic. I have several of their instructional dvd's and the thing I like is you can repeat your lesson as many times as is required. They are very well put together and very informative.

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Get some Laurence Juber(Collection & LJ plays the beatles are both excellent), Pat Donahue & Mike Dowling album is called 2 of a kind, is fantastic! Also Stephen Bennett is pretty good, he toured with Tommy Emmanual one year. I saw him in concert here in Denver, and he is really good. Happy listening!
Tracy

Hi,

I will second what Don A said about Rick Ruskin ... a monster fabulous player. He's still at it, I believe, in Seattle. Also very involved in the audio recording scene. I "discovered" him in the early 70's. His 1st album "Richard Ruskin" was one of the best.

Skip

Alot of good material is available at Stefan Grossman's website www.guitarvideos.com and Happy Traum's site www.homespuntapes.com Both have a good variety of lessons from some great teachers for all levels of players. One of my favorites is the stuff by Peter Huntlinger. You can find tabs for most of the players mentioned already at www.acousticpower.com

Joe Volin

I like Duck Baker and Guy Van Duser. Duck was one of the first Celtic finger stylists. Get "Kid on the Mountain"

Guy Van Duser is a whole class of music by himself though there is an obvious Chet Atkins influence. Get "American Fingerstyle Guitar".

I had an album once with Leo Kottke, Peter Lang and John Fahey that was dynamite.

Definately worth a listen if you can find it.

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Dave Rector
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Howard Emerson, Don Ross, and Muriel Anderson.

Monty

Woody Mann, Pepino D'Agostino, and everyone already mentioned.
-C

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If you like Chet your should look up Doyle Dykes. Just a killer fingerstyle player. Also if you have any interest in Celtic (or even if you don't) check out Tony McManus. I have seen Tony live a number of times and he is amazing!

Josh

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I don't know if this is your cup of tea or not, but I have become somewhat of a fan of Hawaiian slack key guitar. Specifically Ledward Kaanapala and Keola Beamer. Kaanapala did a few songs with Alison Krause in Nashville a while back. Good Stuff.

Another vote for Duck Baker; terrific player. I'd recommend "My heart belongs to Jenny." A guy to whom I sold a guitar takes lessons with Duck; Duck has asked him a few times if he could use that guitar for a show. I got a few pictures, I was thrilled.

Tony McManus is indeed another great one.

Acoustic music Resource sells at least 4 samplers at about $5 apeice, and each has 70 minutes of music. I bought three when they only had the three. They have a huge collection of great fingerstyle stuff. Also on the cover of their catalogs, they feature a handmade guitar.

GREAT value and selection. Highly recommend!

www.acousticmusicresource.com

Hedges - Try Aerial Boundaries - you'll want to give up playing.

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Lance@LuthiersForum.com

Thanks for all the tips, guys! I'll probably get a few of those sampler CDs, and whichever of the other reccomendations I find for a good price. Work my way through 'em all eventually, but I've only got so much I can spend on CDs in one go ;-)

I still think that Davy Graham sets the standard. He may not show the complexity that some of the later players do, (until you try and play his stuff and realise how hard some of it is) but he really makes a guitar sing. Anji is still the piece that shows you can play the guitar.

Colin

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