Jose Feliciano, Carnegie Hall, 1st Row Center
He is totally blind, his brother walked him out to a stool near the front of the stage.
We were 1st row center, not the best for good stereo listening, but the sound was excellent and there was no imaging, just him playing and singing.
Visually it was amazing. The stage is high, you are looking up, the stage monitors, many small ones, but still they obstruct your view a bit when that close, especially for Donna who is 5’ tall, we couldn’t see his feet, but everything else was right in front of us.
Watching his small hands fly around those strings, and, the real treat, was to see him purposely flash up to the string’s tuners, not to correct tuning, but to retune various strings several times during a long number, to get a slightly different sound. It was like watching lightning strike he was so fast (or so it seemed).
Once I noticed what he was doing, I started to listen to those subtleties, it was something I’ll never forget.
I’ve seen Bruce Cockburn and Tommy Emmanule (Carnegie Hall also), but Jose is the best guitarist I have ever seen.
A long 9 minute version of Hey Jude, he gets going around 3:30 in a place similar, with a few supporting instrumentalists. Maybe others were with him when we saw him, we were mezmerized watching/listening to him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmZfm-TPi8
Maybe I should look for a book, perhaps he has written an Auto-Biography.
"“His love affair with music began at the age of three, when he first accompanied his uncle on a tin cracker can.”"
A version of Hey Jude is on this album 10 to 23
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0077NEDVA?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=dm_ics_us_dps_ds_mu_t1