1. Jean Michelle Jare -- Second to no one. 2. Buckethead -- best one-man guitar band using special effects, loops, pedals and drum buttons on his guitar. 3. Tommy Emanuel -- super good electro acoustic finger style guitar player. 4. Henry Kaiser -- sophisticated guitars with special effects. 5. Bill Nelson -- similar to Henry Kaiser.
Funny you should mention Todd Rundgren. On his record A Capella, every sound is Todd's voice (often electrically manipulated). It's kind of an ultimate "one man band" in that he needs zero strings (or keys, or anything else).
That album also contains one of IMO the most beatiful ballads of the pop/rock era - "Pretending to Care". Ironically, the version on A Capella isn't my favorite, but it's certainly an ambitious take on the song.
I back HAROLD-NOT-THE-BARREL: Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield!!! Jean-Michel Jarre also but it is not quite the same, practically all Electronic Music is a "one man band", I have so many favorites here that dont know where to start: Jarre or Klaus Schulze, or Pyramid Peak, or Der Spyra, dunno
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