Best Acoustic Guitar Players Of All Time?

Doc Watson

Nice list. Hedges is easily my number one too.

I saw someone else mention Dave Evans, and that was nice to see. If you are into to acoustic fingerstyle guitar his album "Sad Pig Dance" is an absolute must have. It can be hard to find, but it is worth the effort of tracking that one down.

there are a few other people that I also dig but didn't see on the list:
Peter Finger
John James
John Renbourn
Leo Wijnkamp jr

Pat Metheny, Jerry Garcia (I love his style & tone) & John Carlini (one of Tony Rices' sidekicks)

Don't forget Alex Degrassi, William Ackerman and Andrew York

-Mantas Di Plata was pretty astounding (Paco fans will probably dig him, unfotunately the recording quality is generally not real spiff... still worth checking out)

-Uwe Kropinski, So Oder So and Berlin Concert are both way more psyco-active and head warping than most electric guitar records, (extremely percussive).

-Larry Coryell did some good stuff w/ Phillip Catherine and Steve Khan

-Derek Bailey may be tough to absorb, but was still a #$%^!! giant!

-Sylvain Luc, first Trio Sud disc is great

-Egberto Gismonti's use of harmonics alone on the Fantasia record sets him apart from anyone else.

-Bernd Steidl put out a good acoustic hair metal shred record

U.Srinivas/Dream w/ Michael Brook holds up pretty well

-Fred Frith has invented some cool acoustic things that got recorded

-Eddie Van Halen Spanish Fly does not suck, same w/ Allan Holdsworth's acoustic work on on Velvet Darkness and with Gong.