Celebrating Herbert “Bert” Jansch (November 3, 1943 – October 5, 2011), a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist.
Bert Jansch
Ramón Montoya
Celebrating Ramón Montoya (November 2, 1879 – June 20, 1949), Flamenco guitarist born in Madrid, Spain into a family of Gitano (Romani) cattle traders.
Tim Sparks
Celebrating Tim Sparks (10/31/1954), a Twin Cities primitive, orchestral, post-modern, eclectic guitarist from Winston-Salem, NC. Sparks studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Jesus Silva. In the early 70s, Sparks visited guitarist Tony Hauser in the Twin Cities and eventually moved here. He covers jazz styles from Brazilian to Bebop, and in 1993 won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship for his adaptation of The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky. Tim is also immersed in Greek and Klezmer ethnic music and spent time studying Fado and Portuguese guitar in Lisbon. In association with American composer John Zorn, he has recorded four CDs of Jewish Klezmer music and earned a McKnight Fellowship.
Find Tim’s music here:
https://music.apple.com/lk/artist/tim-sparks/59287801
Peter Green
Celebrating Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum; October 29, 1946 – July 25, 2020) an English blues rock guitarist born in Bethnal Green, London. As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and was a major figure in the British blues movement.
Duane Allman
Celebrating Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) an American guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band until his death following a motorcycle crash at the age of 24.
Brad Paisley
Celebrating Brad Douglas Paisley (October 28, 1972), an American country music guitarist born in Glen Dale, West Virginia. He has sold over 11 million albums, has won three Grammy Awards, and is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Eddie Lang
Celebrating Eddie Lang (born Salvatore Massaro, October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) known as the father of jazz guitar. During the 1920s, Lang was one of the first single-string soloist while adding occasional chords.
Mother Maybelle Carter
Celebrating “Mother” Maybelle Carter (born Maybelle Addington; May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978) an American country guitarist born in Nickelsville, VA and best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s.
Steve Cropper
Celebrating Steven Lee “Steve” Cropper (born October 21, 1941), from Willow Springs, MO, the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor.
Merle Travis
Celebrating Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983), an American country and western singer and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky. He made an art form of his unique style of finger-picking.
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