She by Andy McKee (1979-) Andy McKee is an American fingerstyle guitar player. His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable international fanbase. In late 2006, a live performance of his signature song “Drifting” became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace, achieving over 40 million views on the former to …
Climbing In Geometry by William Ackerman (1949-) William Ackerman is an American guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential New Age record label Windham Hill Records.On guitar tunings, William Ackerman has said that none of his songs use the standard guitar tuning
The Keel Row by Martin Simpson (1953-) Martin Stewart Simpson is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in the British Isles, America and beyond. While best known as an acoustic guitarist, Martin originally started out as a banjo player, and also plays the …
Guitar Rag by Merle Travis (1917-1983) Merle Robert Travis was an American country and Western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. Merle Travis is famous for his masterful guitar playing and his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky “Travis picking”, a syncopated style of finger picking, is …
Mrs Jacks Last Stand by Adrian Legg (1948-) Adrian Legg is an English guitar player who has been called “impossible to categorize”. He plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic, and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the “best acoustic fingerstyle” …
Embryonic Journey by Jorma Kaukonen (1940-) Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist. Kaukonen was a founding member of the popular psychedelic San Francisco-based band Jefferson Airplane
3 Hands by Don Ross (1960-) Donald James Ross commonly known as Don Ross, is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist noted for the emotion and intensity of his playing as well as his use of extended technique. Ross’s music borrows from blues, jazz, folk and classical music creating a style that he describes as “heavy wood”
Deep River Blues by Doc Watson (1923-) Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won 7 Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson’s flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded.
Yellowcake by Kaki King (1979-) Kaki King is an American guitarist and composer. King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres. King’s fingerstyle playing combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using the guitar for …
Nakagawasan by Andy McKee (1979-) Andy McKee is an American fingerstyle guitar player. His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable international fanbase. In late 2006, a live performance of his signature song “Drifting” became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace, achieving over 40 million views on the former to …
