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Subject: Re: Re: Guitarists
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 10:56:56 EST
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This discussion does sound like a good way to start fights, but anyway:

Some candidates in various genres:

Pop: Mark Knopfler, Jerry Garcia (I resist the temptation to call the Dead
	a category in themselves).  Knopfler's style is the tastiest thing
	I've heard from a rock band in recent years.

Jazz: John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Django Reinhardt if you want to count
	dead artists (I can't recall if the original poster said living
	guitarists), Al Dimeola.  Note these are mostly modern performers.
	I do listen to more traditional jazz sometimes, but I think recent
	times have yielded the good guitarists in jazz.

Blues: Mel Brown, Albert King (NOT B.B.), Earl Hooker (NOT John Lee, dead).
	lots of obscure artists that are very close in this category.  You
	may want to call Mel Brown jazz.

Bluegrass: Doc Watson.  Saw him live once, was impressed as hell.

Others (hard to categorize):  Steve Morse (What do you call that stuff
	the Dixie Dregs play).  Leo Kottke (musical methedrine).
	David Bromberg.  If there's anybody I wish I could play like, it
	might be Bromberg - he is able to play an incredible mix of
	things, and do them all well.