Your best/favourite/most admired player?

Kilgore

Robert Belfour

tomjax

Tough to pick just one...

Martin Simpson

Kelly Joe Phelps

Paul Simon

BlackbirdCabs

I love Ben Chasny AKA Six Organs of Admittance. School of the Flower or Asleep on the Floodplain are good starting points but it's all great stuff. If I had to describe his style I'd say..... Bert Jansch after a stay at a Buddhist retreat in California. It's that good

ESBlonde

Sadly now passed but Daryl Hall had a long term musician called T bone (Tom) Wolk in his band, Whose lead and rhythm acoustic playing I find inspirational. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolk

malcolmkindness

Duck Baker and Eric Skye.

bertie

as a guitar player........... I dunno,  Im not keen on slappy tappy playing  or those "celtic" alternate tuning types,  so probably Tommy E when he isnt going too mad   -  I do like Martin Tallstroms acoustic arrangements of "other songs" 

as an acoustic performer ?  Leon Redbone 

BigPaulie

bertie said:

as a guitar player........... I dunno,  Im not keen on slappy tappy playing 

I agree. There's nothing that makes me close the YouTube browser quicker than someone hitting their guitar. It's an immediate turn off for me no matter how much I've been enjoying the playing up to that point.

oh_pollo

I agree with @Winny_Pooh, it's got to be Django. Guy basically created an entire musical genre.

viz

Gareth Pearson

ditchboy

I’ve always been more impressed by the ability to write a good song than the ability to play the instrument. I could watch Pete Doherty play for hours but would get bored of John Gomm in no time. 

TheMarlin

Jim Cregan

VimFuego

for me the real magic of the acoustic is the singer songwriter thing, so that's what I'm drawn to. Players like Reg Meuross, Martin Simpson etc.

DavidR

Rev Gary Davis.

Brad

Alex De Grassi - The Water Garden is a masterpiece

https://youtu.be/Ss79ysvOPh8?si=hpyvGuGJo-f8o2g9 

https://youtu.be/oX7zqGni1a0?si=iOwEOkWD35II2DDf

Pierre Bensusan - saw him live, must be close to 10 years ago now and he had the venue in the palm of his hand. 

https://youtu.be/b23L99oBt_Q?si=2Aw0SnlQZxSvieQR

Teyeplayer

Richard Thompson for both best acoustic and electric player every time. Simply because he treads his own path and melds so many styles seamlessly within his playing whilst still knowing how to wring notes from the neck rather than becoming so fluid it lack soul. 

thecolourbox

I've a very limited palette for acoustic sounds so my favourites are not very varied or obscure or whatever.  I've never really found anybody I like more than Paul Simon and Bert Jansch to be honest, to listen to or to play.

Honourable mention to Laura Marling and Eva Cassidy though, I'd probably play more of their stuff if it was more in my vocal range (or in Marling's case, if it were more in standard tuning as my fairly rubbish acoustic doesn't like being retuned very much)

guitarjack66

There are so many brilliant guitarists,some famous,some not so. It basically comes down to what the listeners like and the 'flavour' or not applied to it. Some players are brilliant at both writing and performing while others are brilliant impressionists.

PC008

thecolourbox said:

I've a very limited palette for acoustic sounds so my favourites are not very varied or obscure or whatever.  I've never really found anybody I like more than Paul Simon and Bert Jansch to be honest, to listen to or to play.

Honourable mention to Laura Marling and Eva Cassidy though, I'd probably play more of their stuff if it was more in my vocal range (or in Marling's case, if it were more in standard tuning as my fairly rubbish acoustic doesn't like being retuned very much)

+1 for Laura Marling and Billie Marten too - great songwriters. 

digitalkettle

Brad said:

Alex De Grassi - The Water Garden is a masterpiece

https://youtu.be/Ss79ysvOPh8?si=hpyvGuGJo-f8o2g9 

https://youtu.be/oX7zqGni1a0?si=iOwEOkWD35II2DDf

Pierre Bensusan - saw him live, must be close to 10 years ago now and he had the venue in the palm of his hand. 

https://youtu.be/b23L99oBt_Q?si=2Aw0SnlQZxSvieQR

Nice choices @Brad ;

I don't see any mention of Michael Hedges on this thread yet!

thomasross20

Billy Strings & Molly Turtle have some good stuff out right now