John Fahey

John Fahey

male, deceased (2001)
John Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been...
Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke

male, 64 years old
Leo Kottke (born on 11 September 1945 in Athens, Georgia, USA, North America) is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his idiosyncratic...
Peter Lang

Peter Lang

male
Peter Lang (born ?) is an accomplished acoustic guitarist, from the same genre, American Primitivism, as the better-known virtuosos Leo Kottke and...
Ed Denson

Ed Denson

male
Eugene "ED" Denson (the capitalization of both letters in his "first name" is his own spelling that evolved from constantly using his initials) is...

James Blackshaw

male
James Blackshaw is a London-based guitarist. Blackshaw primarily plays a 12 string guitar in a similar style to Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans,...

Steffen Basho-Junghans

male
Steffen Basho-Junghans (born 1953) is a German guitarist and composer. He was born in North Thuringia in the former German Democratic Republic (aka...
Norman Blake

Norman Blake

male, 71 years old
Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee)) is a Grammy-nominated instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter who has played in a...

Don Kent

male
Don Kent is known as a collector and connoisseur of blues and bluegrass recordings, as founder and owner of record labels such as "Mamlish...