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How To Play Guitar Like Woody Mann

Woody Mann is a masterful American blues guitarist. He was born in New York and learned his early acoustic guitar chops under blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis. From there, he has become a tour de force in acoustic guitar music, incorporating jazz, folk, and international music in his oeuvre. Accomplishments

How To Play Acoustic Guitar Like Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton has

How To Play Like Tony Rice

Tony Rice (born David Anthony Rice, June 8, 1951) is an American guitarist. He is one of bluegrass' most inventive and influential flatpicking guitar players. Here are some helpful resources, especially if you're wondering how to play like Tony Rice. Tony Rice was inducted into the International

Top 25 Best Classical Guitarists of All Time

The challenge of listing the top 25 classical guitarists is that there is such a deep history in classical guitar, how far back do you go? Do you limit it to the current players? But then that doesn't work - I mean, how could you leave Segovia out

How To Play Like Keb' Mo'

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician. He's a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and four-time Grammy Award winner. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Keb' Mo' has been described as : "a living link to the seminal

How To Play Like Seasick Steve

Steven Gene Wold (born 1940/1941), commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. Wold has lived all over the world while composing, playing, and recording blues music. He tends to play very unique, modified guitars (see a few of the example below). His lyrics are often about

How To Play Guitar Like Chris Smither

William Christopher Smither (born November 11, 1944) is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, as well as modern poets and philosophers. Chris Smither's Guitars: Collings custom 12 fret cutaway Collings' Description: With softer contours and

Top 5 Acoustic Guitar Jazz Albums

Most of the greatest jazz albums have been recorded with hollow body or semi-hollow body guitars. However, do we consider these kind of guitars as acoustic guitars? Technically, they are acoustic guitars amplified by a magnetic pickup. Jazz and blues guitarists as Charlie Christian, with his Gibson ES 150, Lonnie

Acoustic Guitar

Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins was known around the world as as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman". He was not only a guitar player, but an occasional vocalist, songwriter, and a record producer. He helped to create the country music style that came to be known as the