Favorite guitar players not named......


We all know there names Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck Stevie Ray. But who are your favorite guitar players that are not house hold names? Here are a few of mine not in any order.

Robert Fripp
Martin Barre
Richard Thompson
Roy Buchnan
Rory Gallagher
Mason Ruffner
Neil Young and Lindsey Buckingham know but not so much for the guitar work.
also Dave Alvin and Alvin Lee
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Bert Jansch

A musician buddy turned me onto this artist whose music DNA is embedded in a ton of artists from the last 50 years.

Bill Connors, Terry Kath (Chicago), Vernon Reid, Larry Coryell, Mick Taylor, Eddie Hazel (Funkadelics), James Mankey (Concrete Blonde), Oscar Moore (Nat King Cole), Jesse Edwin Davis (Taj Mahal), Bill Nelson (BeBop Deluxe), Shuggie Otis, Steve Cropper, Bill Frisell, Jeff Buckley, Magic Sam, John Abercrombie, Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam), Andy Gill (Gang Of 4), Hubert Sumlin (Howlin' Wolf), James Blood Ulmer, Janis Ian, Dave Davies (KInks), David Hildago (Los Lobos), Marshall Crenshaw, James Honeyman-Scott (Pretenders), Duke Robillard, Joni Mitchell and David Williams are all really interesting guitarists who sometimes get overlooked.  There are hundreds of others.