Quality Guitarists you have never heard of.

breakstuff · February 26

I saw The Hillbilly Moon Explosion last year. No idea who the guitarist is without Googling it, but he's a great player.

imalrightjack · February 26

WYNIR0 said:

Barry Shitpeas

Big fan of Jez North here.

idiotwindow · February 26

EricTheWeary said:

snowblind said:

Still waiting for Geppetto to come and carve a real live guitarist out of the blocks of wood on the end of my arms then I might have a name for you.

That said, still recall the first time I happened upon Junior Brown on YT, arrived at somewhat circuitously via a Frank Zappa video.

Probably the late 1990s we had cable TV and CMTV was bundled into that. MrsTheWeary liked her contemporary country and I was happy to have it on as occasionally they would play a Junior Brown track. Occasionally also a Shaver track, imagine sort of Jonny Cash with Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar but was multi instrumentalist Eddy Shaver playing with his dad Billie Joe on vocals. In-between there was a lot of saccharine shite but Junior Brown and Shaver excellent.

Yes, Eddy Shaver was excellent. Seemed to have a natural gift for playing. It's a shame he died so young but his father lived a pretty hard-living type of life so it's not all that surprising. I recommend Billy Joe's autobiography if you haven't already read it. He writes quite a bit about the circumstances of his son's death and some funny business with Eddy's Strat, originally gifted to him by Dickey Betts.

Stuckfast · February 26

Dustin Boyer
Dan Iead

NickB · February 26

Jimmy Herring from Widespread Panic

lustycourtier · February 26

Sean Costello. A day doesnt go by that I dont tell someone about Sean.

Philly_Q · February 26

lustycourtier said:

Sean Costello. A day doesnt go by that I dont tell someone about Sean.

That's today's notification done then.

CHRISB50 · February 26

Until very recently I’d never heard of Robbie Robertson (The Band).

I knew the song, The Weight, from Easy Rider. But I’d never heard much else.

Cracking band, and guitarist.

Guilherme Veronese.

Brazilian metal / fusion instrumentalist. His playing is bloody ridiculous!

Teleguide · February 26

Maybe not unknown to most but Pete Tolson of The Pretty Things went completely under my radar until recently, I could listen to this guy solo all day long!

EricTheWeary · February 26

idiotwindow said:

EricTheWeary said:

snowblind said:

Still waiting for Geppetto to come and carve a real live guitarist out of the blocks of wood on the end of my arms then I might have a name for you.

That said, still recall the first time I happened upon Junior Brown on YT, arrived at somewhat circuitously via a Frank Zappa video.

Probably the late 1990s we had cable TV and CMTV was bundled into that. MrsTheWeary liked her contemporary country and I was happy to have it on as occasionally they would play a Junior Brown track. Occasionally also a Shaver track, imagine sort of Jonny Cash with Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar but was multi instrumentalist Eddy Shaver playing with his dad Billie Joe on vocals. In-between there was a lot of saccharine shite but Junior Brown and Shaver excellent.

Yes, Eddy Shaver was excellent. Seemed to have a natural gift for playing. It's a shame he died so young but his father lived a pretty hard-living type of life so it's not all that surprising. I recommend Billy Joe's autobiography if you haven't already read it. He writes quite a bit about the circumstances of his son's death and some funny business with Eddy's Strat, originally gifted to him by Dickey Betts.

Oh I'll have a look. Billy Joe died a couple of years ago I think.

Gan_Ainm · February 26

lustycourtier said:

Sean Costello. A day doesnt go by that I dont tell someone about Sean.

I was also going to say Sean. I only discovered him last year - an amazing player and singer, especially live (going by the many YouTube vids). Such a sad loss.

I’d also add Paul Size (The Red Devils) and Rick Holmstrom (Mavis Staples band).

RocknRollDave · February 26

Rob Chapman

Ozzie744 · February 26

Josh Z. from an Austin Tx band called The Mother Truckers. They've been around for a while now, but I just recently discovered them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAD43hoL2p4

MagicPigDetective · February 26

Last week I bought Total Guitar. On the cover was a guitarist I’d not heard of. Still not read the interview, but I checked him out on Yotube the other night and was blown away… incredible talent and listenable tunes … his name is Matteo Mancuso.

Philly_Q · February 26

MagicPigDetective said:

Last week I bought Total Guitar. On the cover was a guitarist I’d not heard of. Still not read the interview, but I checked him out on Yotube the other night and was blown away… incredible talent and listenable tunes … his name is Matteo Mancuso.

Several threads on here about him, I think.

MagicPigDetective · February 26

Philly_Q said:

MagicPigDetective said:

Last week I bought Total Guitar. On the cover was a guitarist I’d not heard of. Still not read the interview, but I checked him out on Yotube the other night and was blown away… incredible talent and listenable tunes … his name is Matteo Mancuso.

Several threads on here about him, I think.

And I managed to miss them all. I’ll have a search for them

JerkMoans · February 27

RocknRollDave said:

Rob Chapman

The Smashing Pumpkins guy?

Kurtis · February 27

Well I was going to say I've not heard of any of these guys, but I suppose I have now

DrJazzTap · February 27

Not sure how well known he is... but I always recommend Pierre Bensusan

Habanero · February 27

About 80% of the people with signature guitars.

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