Guitar Playing Heroes

Tommy Emmanuel... 😁

The one and only Mark Knopfler.



And the other one and only, Stefan Crossman.

Derick ,that second video was awesomeI And, it makes me, again!, regret not sticking with it when I was younger- so much to learn, so little time-

Jim ,my influences? In the early aughts (around 03, maybe 01 or 02) I heard a version of Willie's Midnight Rider- during the instrumental break, I swear, Trigger was talkin!It seems I could literally hear the words comin from Trigger-

Since then I just paid more attention to the guitar- no matter who was playin- and too, I think Willie is under rated as a player- if I could mimmick a style it would be his- then there is Waylon who could do a pretty mean lead when he wanted to- I have to say Mickey Newbury is a favorite as well- but, for sheer influence, in reference to what? I can't say anyone in particular drives me but I do like finger pickin, and flat pickin- it makes me feel good when I see a "name" using his thumb (which Waylon did a lot)instead of a pick-

Garland, I became a Willie Nelson fan in the seventies when I bought The Red Headed Stranger. As far as his guitar playing, Maggie and I saw him about a decade ago and he played a version of a Django Reinhardt tune, Nuages, that knocked my socks off.


blues90, I got that first Robert Johnson LP when I was in high school, but never heard the second one tillsometime in the nineties. I recall They're Red Hot made a big impression on me. It was so different than anything else he had recorded. I read later that he liked songs other than the blues, but no one wanted to record him playing them. My Blue Heaven was one of his favourites.

 Great player. I seems that size acoustic is one of most popular for finger picking. I could never play with my finger nails on my picking hand even if they were past the ends on my fingers by a bit, yet many do.