Who's your guitar daddy now?

Never had just one but Jeff Beck, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Green, David Gilmour, Mick Taylor, Mark Knopler, John Mayer, Richard Thompson, Jimmy Page, John Renbourn, Duane Allman, John Cippolina, Eddie Van Halen, Brian Setzer, Miller Anderson, Michael Hedges, Ry Cooder, Andres Segovia come easily to mind .... surely a partial list influenced only by my aging, fading memory.

I guess it really depends on what I'm wearing on a given day..............

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Newbee - Thank you for Sharon Isbin. I'm just listening to "Romances Latines". The energy is incredible. She has two Grammys but I've never heard of her. It's probably because Grammys presentation turned into hip-hop show.

Kijanki - two other Sharon Isbin recommendations, "Bach: Complete Lute Suites" and "Dreams of a World"

Sfar - "Dreams of a World" is one of the Grammys and I was planning to buy it next but I am always afraid of Bach. Many excellent guitarists like David Russell are not the best Bach players. I enjoy Stephen Schmidt - Bach "Lute works" played in original form on ten strings classical guitar (Schmidt's design). Glen Gould said onces that Bach is a volcano of energy - so Isbin might have an advantage - what do you think?

Kijanki - I'm certainly not as knowledgeable as you about Bach and I suppose I'm fairly uncritical (if that's a word.) I would describe her playing of the Lute Suites as restrained rather than energetic, more 'Sunday morning' listening than 'Saturday night.'

Thanks for the Stephen Schmidt recommendation. I really like having multiple versions of music I like, especially widely different interpretations. The first classical recording I ever bought, more than forty years ago when I was 18, was Julian Bream playing the lute suites.