Martin Simpson has a touch that is unparalleled in folkstyle finger picking in my opinion. His albums tend to have a mix of instrumental and sung pieces. He's been around for ever and has a great legacy across British, Irish and American folk music.
Hadn’t even heard of him, but went to watch Satriani at the Manchester Apollo years ago.
About 40 mins before he came on this guy dressed in black came on stage with an acoustic guitar. I thought he was a guitar tech just doing a quick sound check.
Without a word, he sat down on a stool and just started playing. I, and suspect, most of the theatre, was blown away.
Yes, at the gig I saw him at he was telling us stories about how he came up with the tune he was about to play as he was re-tuning etc (he played in open tunings like John Martin). Also had banjo style tuning pegs on his Ovation so he could ‘solo’ as he was finger picking. I’d love to watch him live again.
Swedish trio that put out a single album about ten years ago. One of them is a climber, which is how I found them. The album was apparently recorded in a single session in a medieval stone church with the three of them sitting around a single microphone.
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