there are so many people who play acoustic guitar that the idea of determining a "best" seems absurd to me. generally i agree with tophat--for every guitarist you know about there are probably a hundred who could wipe the floor with him or her technically, conceptually....
over the past couple years, i have been listening to lots of recordings made "in the field" by musicologists or just people with travelling with recording equipment--of people who do not operate in a space where "musician" in something seperate from being alive in general--and some of these folk are astonishing players, just astonishing, doing things that run way outside of the four chord 4/4 crap that ciruclates as "pop music" and its derivatives in the states....
it keeps you humble.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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