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Tim Buckley Youtube – Morning Glory
Tim Buckley recorded a couple of legendary albums in the late sixties and early seventies. He died in 1975, and was also the father of the late Jeff Buckley. I thought it would be great to post about this video because a lot of players may not be...
Adrian Legg USA Tour Dates
English Acoustic Guitar Player Adrian Legg is touring the USA. Adrian is a great guitar player and I thought it would be good to inform readers where Adrian is playing . Here is a link to the web page with the dates Adrian Legg Tour USA Adri...
Don Ross Youtube Acoustic Guitar
Here’s a very interesting and slightly funky acoustic guitar o on Youtube of Don Ross. What I really like about this is there is no doubt about whether Don is in control of his guitar. The tune is called Afraid to Dance. Don Ross plays a lot...
Tommy Emmanuel Acoustic Guitar Blues Youtube
Here’s a very very good Acoustic Blues Improvisation by Tommy Emmanuel. It’s only about two minutes long but he plays a lot in that two minutes, it has certain elements of jazz and boogie in it. Back in the early eighties I used to wa...
Acoustic Guitar John Mayer Youtube
Here’s a solo acoustic guitar version of John Mayer playing ‘Waiting on the World to Change’. For me, hearing guitar players without all the production and all the other instruments. When we hear players without all the other fr...
Norman Blake – Youtube Flatpicking
Here’s the very brilliant Norman Blake who has influenced thousands of players across the globe with his awesome flatpicking. call into ...
Jose Gonzalez Youtube
I’ve always liked the texture of a nylon string guitar and voice together. One of my favorite acoustic nylon string singer songwriters is the Swedish based guitar player Jose Gonzalez. I find the nylon string guitar to be a very different instr...
Acoustic Guitar – Neil Finn Youtube
Acoustic Guitar – Neil Finn Don’t Dream it’s Over It’s always great to see musicians with a sense of musicality be successful in commercial music. It is about 35 years since I first saw Neil Finn perform live with Split En...
Jason Mraz Youtube – Acoustic Guitar in Commercial Music
In the 1980’s there was an incredible drought of male acoustic guitar players in commercial music. Fortunately the releasing of music by Eric Clapton and a number of others reopened the doorway for a lot of other acoustic guitar players ̵...
Acoustic Guitar Chet Atkins Mark Knopfler Youtube
It’s always great to see musicians of different generations playing together. Here’s (the late) Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler playing fingerstyle on big bodied acoustic guitars. This video is also an example of how amplification of ...
Acoustic Guitar Youtube – Uli Bogershausen
Here is a video of a nice acoustic guitar piece by Uli Bogershausen, it’s reasonably simple (if you can play guitar) but it’s a very likable piece which stands up. It’s important as guitar players, regardless of what style we pl...
Paul McCartney of the Beatles Youtube Acoustic Guitar
Paul McCartney without the Beatles playing Michelle on a drednaught acoustic, sweet as anything. A reminder that music does not need to have 24,000 notes and extreme mathematics to be valid. I love the sound of the squeeze box in there. Doing t...
Stephen Stills Youtube
Last night I was watching a football match on tele, the game was very one sided, so I flicked channels and was just in time to see Stephen Stills playing Helplessly Hoping. Listening to him, it reminded me how good he actually is. His voice was m...
Duck Baker Youtube – Acoustic Jazz Guitar
Many Acoustic Guitar players and enthusiasts know Duck Bakers Celtic and Blues guitar playing but are probably unfamiliar with his enthusiasm and love of jazz. I was fascinated when I first heard Duck playing this still in a setting with a double b...
DADGAD Fingestyle Blues TAB and Music Notation
I woke this morning and virtually everything I touched just didn’t happen, I set out to rework a blues variation in G as an educational piece and it went skewiff. So since I was in a Blues mentality, I decided to reposat a DADGAD fingerstyl...
John Schofield Acoustic Guitar Youtube
Many guitar enthusiasts will know John Schofield from his electric jazz and jazz rock excursions since the 1970’s. I was fortunate enough to see John play duets in a great setting with another guitar player called Steve Erquiaga some years ...
Acoustic Guitar Youtube – Peter Finger
Here is a guitar player that I think a lot of players will like. His name is Peter Finger. He is an exceptional guitar player and also involved in recording great players like Ansgar Dalken To visit Peters Website go to Peter Finger Site And if ...
Neil Young Youtube 1970
Here is an old video recording of the Canadian musician/ acoustic guitar player / singer songwriter Neil Young. It was recorded live in 1970 at the Finjan Cafe. He is performing Loner and Cinnamon Girls. This is great treat for Neil Young an...
Gypsy Rover DADGAD Arrangement TAB
A year or so ago I published a simple but very musical sounding DADGAD Arrangement of the old tune Gypsy Rover. I have decided to republish it because the previous web page no longer exists due to a weird turn of we events. A lot of the music I ...
DADGAD Fingerstyle Guitar – Amazing Grace
This is a DADGAD Tuning of Amazing Grace for Fingerstyle Guitar which I wrote about two years ago but due to a web related issue, I have decided to repost the tune. I’ve written it a particular way, slow bluesy and soulful. It is a foundati...
Acoustic Guitar Youtube – Maneli Jamal
I was introduced to the acoustic player Maneli Jamal only a few minutes ago, and I think it is a worthwhile posted a brief article about him. He’s one of the Acoustic Guitar Players in Guitar Idol A quote from Guitar Idol site “Having ...
Howlin Wolf Youtube Blues Guitar
I’ve posted this short article with an Acoustic Blues Guitar Video on Youtube because a lot of younger playrs may not know of Howlin’ Wolf and some others may have only heard him and never seen footage. It’s called Shake it For Me ...
Crosby Stills and Nash Youtube
Every now and then it’s nice to go back to some acoustic music with harmonies which influenced many other acoustic guitar players and vocalist. Here is Wasted on the Way from 1982 If you are tired of suffering from poorly written Internet Gu...
Acoustic Guitar Youtube
This is incredibly beautiful acoustic guitar plaing by Antoine Dufour, the Canadian guitar player. It is called Ashes in the Sean of his Existence album. Candy Rat Records For another great Antoine Dufour Youtube Video go to Antoine Dufour...
Acoustic Guitar Blues Scales
I wrote a very simple and helpful guitar TAB and Music Notation of Essential Blues Scales for Acoustic Guitar some time ago. Obviously they are suitable for electric guitar. As there are many new visitors all the time to my acoustic guitar site...
John Butler Trio Youtube Slide Roots Rock
John Butler is one of the greats that has helped take the art of acoustic roots music to a broader younger audience. Although there have been brilliant players and singer songwriters around for years, a lot of the players have been obscurred by th...
Martin Simpson Youtube - Fingerstyle Guitar
Martin Simpson is one of the legends of contemporay British acoustic open tuning guitar. His roots are in folk but extends way past that. Martin Simpson is one of the most beautiful sounding acoustic guitar players you’ll ever have the pr...
Gibson Acoustic Guitars Youtube
This Gibson Acoustic Guitar Youtube Video is definitely worth a view, yes they are advertising but regardless of this the snippets of guitars in various stages of development are of great interest, especially to guitar players that don’t really...
Eric Clapton Youtube Blues - Outside Woman Blues
My introduction to the Cream featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker was in 1969, I was 13 years old and just discovering music. By 1970 I had inherited four albums, Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced, John Wesley Harding by Dylan, Hu...
Acoustic Guitar Youtube Jacques Stotzem playing Hendrix
It’s always good to see great guitar players interpreting other players work. This video youtube of Jacques Stotzem plaing the Jimi Hendrix tune Purple Haze is a perfect example of when it works. Keep in mind the original by Hendrix was o...
