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Dec 26, 2022 · But the more she performed the track, which earned her a Grammy nod for Best American Roots Song, the more she discovered its tougher, blues groove. Re-cut for her 2021 Rounder Records debut, Wary + Strange, “Black Myself” became an electric guitar-driven blues rocker that shows Kiah’s deft ability to transform traditional folk and blues ...
- 50 of the best acoustic guitarists of all time | GuitarPlayer
Kaki King. The winner of GP ’s Best Acoustic Guitarist...
- 50 of the best acoustic guitarists of all time | GuitarPlayer
- Gabriella Quevedo. With an undeniable ear for a hit and unfailing rhythmic accuracy, Gabriella delivers some of the most crowd‑pleasing repertoire of any acoustic YouTuber.
- Kaki King. To think of Kaki King as just an acoustic guitar player is to sell her art short. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her soundtrack to Sean Penn’s Into The Wild.
- Molly Tuttle. Molly Tuttle’s picking hand is terrifying. She’s mastered clawhammer technique, but it’s her flatpicking that leaves us most breathless. Her string crossing is effortless.
- Clive Carroll. Clive Carroll is arguably the most accomplished fingerstylist in the world today – not a statement we make lightly. Our pals on Guitar Techniques magazine even call him the ‘acoustic Guthrie Govan’, which gives you some idea of the Essex-born virtuoso’s incredible skills.
- Best blues/jazz guitarist, 2021: Joe Bonamassa. JoBo released his new album Time Clocks in October and it feels as if he’s indeed conscious of time ticking by – that Bonamassa has things he need to do.
- Jared James Nichols. The Wisconsin whirlwind, Jared James Nichols feels like he’s everywhere in the world of blues rock, yet we’ve not had an album since 2018’s Black Magic.
- Billy Gibbons. In the year that we said goodbye to ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, Gibbons focussed his musical efforts on his solo album Hardware – a fine exercise in guitar-based grit and gristle.
- Eric Gales. Gales has spent much of 2021 teasing the arrival of his long-awaited 16th album Crown. The lead single alone (I Want My Crown, featuring producer and fellow teen-prodigy-done-good Joe Bonamassa) was enough to get him to fourth place on your list but we’ll have to wait until January for the full-length.
- Winner, Best Acoustic Guitarist 2021: Tommy Emmanuel. The Australian titan of acoustic guitar takes your top spot for 2021. He didn’t feature in last year’s list, yet has roared back to claim the crown.
- Mike Dawes. The British acoustic guitarist and YouTube icon has been busy launching a podcast (the excellently titled Mike Dawes Has A Podcast) in 2021.
- Daniele Mammarella. The Italian fingerstyle guitarist was one of the finalists in Guitar World’s Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year competition in 2020. In 2021, he followed it up by releasing his spell-binding new album Moonshine.
- Jon Gomm. Our 2020 number one hasn’t gone anywhere. We’ve not had a new album this year (2020’s The Faintest Idea will have to hold you for now) but the UK virtuoso and percussive innovator celebrated the 10th anniversary of his breakthrough track Passionflower in 2021.
- Jonathan Horsley
- Joe Bonamassa. The world’s most high-profile blues guitarist has spent 2019 packing out pretty much every large, red-plush seated theater he can find in support of last year’s masterly Redemption.
- Eric Clapton. For a player who made his bones in the ‘60s with Cream and Blind Faith, back when the color TV was still novel, Slowhand made a respectable attempt at breaking the internet when he played While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Peter Frampton at this year’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.
- Derek Trucks. Is there a better slide player in the world right now? Trucks is the highest slide specialist in our voters’ list, and perhaps that is because his sensibility is such that he never overpowers the jam, often positioning his Gibson Artist Series Dickey Betts SG somewhere in the uncharted frequencies shared by vocals and guitar, and as an enigmatic counterpoint to his wife Susan Tedeschi’s Strat or Les Paul.
- Buddy Guy. Profiled in the New Yorker as “the last of the bluesmen,” Buddy Guy might be 83 years young but he has more than plenty sap in the tree, and can presently be found, Strat in hand, at venues up and down the length and breadth of the United States.
Jul 14, 2021 · Kaki King. The winner of GP ’s Best Acoustic Guitarist honors in 2013, King has thrilled audiences with her astonishing two-handed tapping skills for more than a decade. She continues to push musical—and guitar performance—envelopes as a multi-instrumentalist, film composer, and multimedia artist. —JL/MM. Earl Klugh.
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May 2, 2023 · Check out this live version of ZZ Top’s ‘La Grange’, with a cool-as-cucumber Gibbons and the whole band incinerating everything in a 50-mile radius with their fiery talent. Overall, Billy Gibbons is easily one of the best blues guitarists of all time. 5. Jimi Hendrix. Date of Birth. November 27, 1942.
