Martin Taylor is an accomplished fingerstyle guitar player who’s won awards, fans, and even been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in his native England for his contributions to guitar jazz. If you want to check out some key Martin …
Maneli Jamal
Award winning guitarist Maneli Jamal has wowed audiences around the world with his visual style of playing acoustic guitar. He incorporates many musical textures in his performances while keeping rhythm with his two hands but you'll swear he has a …
Top 10 Best Acoustic Guitar Albums
First, a few qualifications about this list of best acoustic guitar albums: This list is intended to cover popular music rather than classical artists. That means that we won’t be diving into the world of Andrés Segovia or Christopher …
Andy McKee
Andy Mckee is one of the most well-known modern fingerstyle guitar players in the world. Hailing from America, Andy’s fame has largely spread through his amazing YouTube videos (check out the example below, 55million views and counting!). Originally …
Sungha Jung
Sungha Jung (Korean: 정성하) is a South Korean musician who specializes in acoustic fingerstyle guitar. His YouTube channel currently has more than 4.5 million subscribers. Jung creates acoustic covers and arrangements, typically by ear and/or by …
Phil Keaggy
Philip Tyler "Phil" Keaggy (born March 23, 1951) is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. …
Kaki King
Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King, August 24, 1979) 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 …
Thomas Leeb
Thomas Leeb (born September 14, 1977 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian fingerstyle guitarist. Thomas Leeb grew up in the small Austrian mountain village Turracher Höhe, Carinthia, as the youngest of four children of a hotel-owner's family. Over …
Adrian Legg
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 …
Igor Presnyakov
Igor Presnyakov (Russian: Игорь Пресняков) is a Russian guitarist who became popular on YouTube in 2007, for his unique song covers and virtuoso playing style. Born in Moscow, Russia, Igor Presnyakov studied classical music at a nearby academy and …
Adam Rafferty
Adam Rafferty (born New York City, January 26, 1969) is a guitarist and composer. He is known for his arrangements of pop songs by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and the Beatles and for the use of beatboxing while playing guitar. In 2007, a friend …
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included …
Don Ross
Donald James Ross, or Don Ross, (born November 19, 1960) is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist. He is the only person to win the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship twice (1988 and 1996). His album Huron Street reached the top ten on the Billboard …
Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor, MBE (born 20 October 1956) is a British jazz guitarist who has performed in groups, guitar ensembles and as an accompanist. He is best known for his solo fingerstyle performances, in which he provides bass and chordal accompaniment in …
