country guitarists

vette6600 · #1 11-04-2005, 10:39 PM

anyone know of any instrumental country/bluegrass/etc albums or artists? i'm really digging all those twangy licks and all, lately. i know that vince gill is quite a player, does he have anything that features a lot of his playing? been listening to steve morse's stuff and he's got some great country tunes, i just need some more. thanks for your help

Flobanez · #2 11-04-2005, 11:30 PM

Jerry Reed has some good stuff. One of Eric Johnson's favs along with Chet Atkins. Keith Urban can rock too. Im not much into country but there are some real great players out there that play country.

**elcid** · #3 11-05-2005, 12:16 AM

Johnny Hiland

fettouhi · #4 11-05-2005, 03:57 AM

Don't the king of them all Albert Lee

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Regards

André

monkeyboy · #5 11-05-2005, 06:24 AM

Also have a look at Tommy Emmanuel and Brad (Buster Jones)

Worth having a look at the woodsongs archive (www.woodsongs.com) - loads of complete videos to download which have loads of those type of players.

As a starter though, go there and grab the Tommy Emmanuel vids - you will definately not be disappointed.

Haydn

pawel · #6 11-05-2005, 06:28 AM

Danny Gatton - not strictly country, but in that vein, with some jazzier elements.

monkeyboy · #7 11-05-2005, 10:39 AM

Oh - and you shouldn't forget Leo Kottke - a big amalgum of all sorts of country and bluegrass styles - brilliant

And the only guy who does crazy fingerpicking on a twelve string too.

Awakened Sleeper · #8 11-05-2005, 11:22 AM

What about The Hellecasters? 3 amazing guitarists.

**jim777** · #9 11-05-2005, 12:26 PM

All great guitarists mentioned so far, and all the early Dregs and Dixie Dregs albums have at least one counrty picking extravagana.

vette6600 · #10 11-05-2005, 11:52 PM

i have two of gatton's discs and am planning on buying some dixie dregs after having listened to steve morse quite a bit lately. thanks for all your other suggestions, i'll definitely look into all of these players. anybody else with input?

mi2tom · #11 11-06-2005, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elcid

Johnny Hiland

+1

Big Job · #12 11-06-2005, 08:51 AM

Brett Garsetd?

fettouhi · #13 11-06-2005, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Job

Brett Garsetd?

Not really a country guitarist but nonetheless the man can PLAY.

Regards

André

Scott Smith · #14 11-06-2005, 10:52 AM

Brad Paisley.

What did Guitar World call him? Oh yeah, "Eddie Van Halen on Cornbread". I'm not into country at all but he has some chops. 2 good instrumentals he has are "Munster Rag" and "Spaghetti Western Swing". Both pretty cool...