Guitar Players Who Don't get Enough Credit

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Originally Posted by stealurface831

cortez the killer goes as hard as anything.

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I'll put this here mostly because Grace Potter makes me tingle...

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Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Terry Kath.

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Pretty good marksman too

Magic Sam has some shaky guitar playing too, but this groove is one of the best ever.


And he just happens to be playing this guys guitar in the above clip:


Otis Rush plays some weird, low key solos:


Not underrated by himself ("I'm the greatest guitar player in the world"):


T-Bone Walker:


Not underrated by maybe unfamiliar to people who ignore country:

I’ll also throw out Willie Nelson. I’ve always appreciated his distinct Django inspired style. Not a lot of notes but placed in a unique sense of time. One of a kind.

Ani DiFranco

Junior Brown!!!

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Originally Posted by irul&ublo

Pretty good marksman too

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Tasteless.

Junior Brown is smokin' on the git-steel.

Jack White made a lot more sense to me when I heard his self described guitar philosophy as "pick a fight with it".

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Originally Posted by buttahflake

Ani DiFranco

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Originally Posted by singlecross

I’ll also throw out Willie Nelson. I’ve always appreciated his distinct Django inspired style. Not a lot of notes but placed in a unique sense of time. One of a kind.

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Good calls.

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Originally Posted by buttahflake

Ani DiFranco

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This may come as a shock to you all, but I used to see her live somewhat regularly back in the day. She is INCREDIBLY talented. Super sweet person IRL too. Def some of the best shows I've been to.

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Originally Posted by MontuckyFried

This may come as a shock to you all, but I used to see her live somewhat regularly back in the day. She is INCREDIBLY talented. Super sweet person IRL too. Def some of the best shows I've been to.

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Nice. I’m a bit jealous...

Nanci Griffith plays some tasty guitar, imho she should get more credit.

im not sure hows the fucks you dont give neil credit
maybe listen to arc after weld or ebktin
dont be sleepin on wyclefs axe skills
turn his guitar up

This thread has waxed and waned over the years so I dont remember and I am not going through all the pages, but did anybody say Buck Owens yet?

Don Rich?
https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/bu...-up-your-heart

I went through the entire thread and I didn't see these two guitarists mentioned:

Bill Nelson

The Edge

I’m listening to a lot of Steely Dan the last couple days. He obviously used a lot of of great studio hired gunslingers but Walter Becker could also play. He also wrote all those great guitar parts, so there’s that.

Too lazy to weed through the thread, so apologies for repeats:
Phil Manzanera
Dug up a compilation of PM's work, The Manzanera Collection, and spun it on the hi-fi today. What a versatile chameleon. He is one of those adept and virtuosic axemen who just blends seamlessly into the background all the while laying down some fantastic and diverse textural riffs.

Two great guitar players on this - Big Al Anderson and Luther Dickinson. Third guitar is Nick Forster, another good player. Big Al's pretty damn old now but he can still play his ass off, and Luther is special. Music starts @ 1:00 Al goes crazy @ 5:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJow_amVON0

Knopfler is the man IMO. Song is a live rendition of Postcards from Paraguay, off his best solo album Shangri-La. Get it of you don't have it. Great start to finish.

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Originally Posted by dookey67

Too lazy to weed through the thread, so apologies for repeats:
Phil Manzanera
Dug up a compilation of PM's work, The Manzanera Collection, and spun it on the hi-fi today. What a versatile chameleon. He is one of those adept and virtuosic axemen who just blends seamlessly into the background all the while laying down some fantastic and diverse textural riffs.

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801 - Live

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Originally Posted by Vets

801 - Live

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Hells yeah!!!

Their version of TNK is almost better'n the original...

Vernon Reid
Alan Holdsworth (yeah, it's a repeat, but the guy was a blistering, unrecognized great).

Tal Farlow
Herb Ellis
Joe Pass

(I was just thinking of TNK by 801, beat the living shit out of that record in the mid 70s)

I know Steve Hackett has been mentioned, but this is one of my all-time favorites of his:

And Genesis's original guitsrist Anthony Philips is fantastic. I think he tends to get forgotten under Hackett's shadow, but the stuff he did on the first two Genesis albums, plus his more folk oriented solo work, is great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)

The ^^ group of session musicians with formal music training in jazz & classical none of whom you ever heard of but you would have heard them play on several hundred top 40 hits

for me the only familiar names are Leon Russel and Glen Campbell, I'm not a country person but as I remember form his show that I hated but my mom liked to watch Glen Campbell could play guitar