Favourite Guitarists

Pat Martino

Jim Hall

Louis Stewart

Bill Frisell

Billy Gibbons

 

Paco Pena
Andres Segovia
Julian Bream
Narcisco Ypes

“Carlos Santana”

Paco De Lucia

Earl Klug

 

Andres Segovia 

The GOAT:  SRV

New commer: Billy Strings

 

Lots of great lists (nice one @audi-owe!), many of my faves---but not all---already mentioned.

 

Al Anderson (The Wildweeds, solo, NRBQ)

Dave Edmunds (Love Sculpture, solo, Rockpile)

Albert Lee (Heads Hands & Feet, Emmylou, The Everly Brothers, solo)

Ry Cooder

James Burton (Ricky Nelson, Elvis, Emmylou)

George Harrison

Steve Cropper (Booker T & The MG's)

Paul Burlinson (The Johnny Burnette Rock 'n' Roll Trio), a fave of Jeff Beck.

Don Rich (Buck Owens Buckaroos)

Roy Nichols (Merle Haggard)

Richard Thompson

Kenny Vaughan (Lucinda Williams, The Fabulous Superlatives, solo)

Nokie Edwards (The Ventures)

Scotty Moore (Elvis)

Carl Perkins

JJ Cale

Buddy Miller

Danny Gatton

Evan Johns

Tony Rice

Albert King

Freddie King

 

There is a separate category reserved for three whose influence exceeds all others:

 

Grady Martin

Hank Garland

Merle Travis

 

I am tempted to bring up the subject of the large number of UK guitarists included in lists not containing the original guitarists the UK guitarists are emulating. But I won't ;-) .