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Nominated and selected by the TrueFire community, the following ten players join TrueFire’s 100+ Gifted Guitarists You Should Know list in recognition of their extraordinary talent and musical prowess. They are listed in no particular order. Click here to see the full list and learn more about this series.
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Jeff Scheetz
As a guitarist and songwriter, Jeff has been known internationally for his many instrumental CDs. However, when he started to play the guitar, his first love was blues and blues rock and the early “jam” bands. So he has always had that element in his playing, and now with his latest band he has brought that to the forefront – full circle. Featuring very hooky songs with aggressive guitar playing and soulful vocals, this material should please fans of both great bluesy rock songs and outright guitar nuts!
So if you like rock with a bit of blues attitude, and a touch of funk, with some “jam band” style live shows – Wrapped up in some catchy songs with emotional vocals, and rippin’ guitar, topped off with overall aggressive playing – then the Jeff Scheetz band’s brand of music is something you definitely need to check out. Catch them wherever fine music is served.
Jeff has continues to produce remarkable instructional guitar videos through TrueFire and is currently adding to those already available. Aside from being a phenomenal guitarist, Jeff has received other training from Master Towser, but you will have to visit his web page for that info!
Official Website: http://www.JeffScheetz.com/
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Jude Gold
The guitar has led Jude all over the world, and all over the musical spectrum. Since earning a music degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995, he has performed and recorded in countless genres—deep house with globally-renowned deejay Miguel Migs, the jam band scene with JGB (featuring original members of the Jerry Garcia Band) and Merl Saunders, electric jazz with bass phenomenon Jeff Berlin, classic rock with Eddie Money, raunch-rap with 2 Live Crew, modern orchestral with composer Anthony P. DeRitis and the Oakland Symphony, radio rock with Cathy Richardson and the Macrodots, funk/prog/fusion with guitar hero Greg Howe, experimental with DJ Spooky, acid jazz with Groove Shop, psychedelic ska with Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore, high life with Afro-pop legend King Sonny Okosun, Berkeley High School prog-pop with Electric Spaghetti, adventure rock with bass ninjas Stuart Hamm and Billy Sheehan, and much, much more.
Jude’s love for the guitar has also earned him professional appointments in the guitar industry, as he serves as Director of GIT (the Guitar Institute of Technology)—the renowned guitar program at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California—and as an editor and writer for Guitar Player magazine, a position he has held since 2001.
Official Website: http://www.JudeGold.com/
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Muriel Anderson
Muriel Anderson is now frequently touring with Germany’s famed duo, Tierra Negra, and has been met with great enthusiasm across the country. Their music together has been coined “New World Flamenco.” As a soloist, her obvious joy of music and facility across musical genres is revered by guitarists and audiences worldwide. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, is host of the renowned Muriel Anderson’s All Star Guitar Night® and founder of the Music for Life Alliance charity. Her music can be heard in Woody Allen’s film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” and her “Heartstrings” recording accompanied the astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery.
Chet Atkins said “Muriel Anderson is a good friend and a great guitarist. She deserves national recognition.” Les Paul said, “…she plays like we all wish to play.”
Aside from her many accolades as a performer and recording artist, Muriel has established herself as a very gifted instructor. She has crafted instructional guitar videos for TrueFire and written instructional books as well.
Official Website: http://www.MurielAnderson.com/
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Steve Wariner
Multi-talented even as a child, at age 9, Steve started playing bass, and later drums, in his father’s band. Discovered by Dottie West at age 17 while playing in a club in Indianapolis, he toured with her for three years playing bass. Steve went on to play bass in Bob Luman’s band. Through guitar virtuoso Paul Yandell, he met his idol, Chet Atkins, who hired Steve to play bass in his band. Chet eventually signed Steve to his first recording contract at RCA in 1977. Steve has had at least 14 number one singles and three gold albums. His discography is extensive and his awards include: 4 Grammy Awards with 11 nominations, 4 CMA Awards, 1 ACM Award, 16 BMI Country Awards, and 15 BMI Million-Air Awards, among others. The “Million-Air” awards recognize songs that have earned more than one million performances on U.S. television and radio. To date 11 songs written by Wariner have achieved Million-Air status.
In 2009, Steve won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance for the song Cluster Pluck on Brad Paisley’s Play CD and he was inducted into the National Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame.
According to wikipedia, Chet Atkins bestowed upon Wariner, John Knowles, Tommy Emmanuel, and Jerry Reed the honorary degree CGP, standing for “Certified Guitar Player.”
Official Website: http://www.stevewariner.com/
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Andy Aledort
Andy Aledort has been a significant figure in the international music scene over the last 20 years. As a senior editor for the top guitar-oriented music magazines Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Guitar Extra, Guitar Legends, and Guitar World Acoustic, among others, his work is unsurpassed as a music transcriber, instructional columnist and journalist.
He has authored over 200 books of guitar transcriptions as well as a series of guitar-related instructional guitar courses and books, all of which are distributed worldwide, for the leading music publishers Hal Leonard Corp., Warner Brothers Publishing and Cherry Lane Music.
Aledort is a performing musician as well: along with leading his own ensembles in the New York/tri-state area, he is often tapped for high-profile appearances with artists such as Buddy Guy, Dickey Betts, and the Allman Brothers band.
As a session player, Andy Aledort was called upon to recreate the Band Of Gypsys -era playing of Hendrix for recording sessions with the original Gypsys themselves, Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, where Aledort was required to recreate note-for-note renditions of Hendrix’s incendiary live performances of “Machine Gun” and “Power of Soul” from the classic Band of Gypsys album.
Official Website: http://www.AndyAledort.com/
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Johnny A
Johnny A. has one of the most eloquent voices in modern music – and he doesn’t sing a note. Instead, he channels joy, love, humor, sadness… every aspect of the human experience, through his guitar.
Only the finest musicians have the ability to capture the nuances of life in sound, which puts Johnny in a very exclusive group of six-stringers that includes Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, and Jimi Hendrix. The secret is his blend of melody, sonic definition, technique and that indefinable-yet-tangible quality called “soul.” And he’s eloquently shared that secret on the CDs Sometime Tuesday Morning (2001), Get Inside (2004), and the instructional DVD Taste, Tone, Space (2006), which are approaching combined sales of 150,000 copies. All the virtues of Johnny A.’s playing are in abundant display on One November Night, a brand new DVD/CD set recorded live at Scullers in his hometown of Boston, MA.
On December 5, 2010, Johnny A. won the Blues Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards. For years, Gibson has been making a signature guitar for Johnny.
As Johnny explores various genres from song to song, melody remains as the unifying backbone of his voice. And the way he plays those melodies is highly personal. His blend of a hybrid picking style and an unconventional approach to playing chord-based melodies helps create a sound that’s absolutely his own.
Official Website: http://www.JohnnyA.com/
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David Hamburger
David Hamburger has appeared at Merle Fest and the Kerrville and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, toured with Joan Baez, and performed with Tony Trischka, Duke Robillard, Freedy Johnston and Cindy Cashdollar, among others. His guitar, slide guitar and dobro playing can be heard on his solo albums Indigo Rose and David Hamburger Plays Blues, Ballads and a Pop Song and with the Grassy Knoll Boys on their debut CD, Buckeyed Rabbit.
David is also a contributing editor to Acoustic Guitar and the author of a dozen books, including the award-winning “Beginning Blues Guitar” and “The Acoustic Guitar Method,” also available on DVD from Homespun Tapes. He lives in Austin, Texas.
In 2006, Guitar Player magazine launched a new site, GuitarPlayerTV.com, which includes a Blues Alchemy channel featuring clips from David’s video of the same name. David released all-instrumental solo CD David Hamburger Plays Blues, Ballads and a Pop Song. David has crafted a number of excellent instructional guitar courses for TrueFire including Blues Alchemy, Blues Architect, Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 1, Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2, and more.
Official Website: http://www.DavidHamburgerMusic.com/
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Warren Haynes
Adding up the raw data – solo performances, participation in multiple bands (The Allman Brothers, Government Mule, The Warren Haynes Band to name a few) invitations to sit in with friends’ bands, and studio sessions – it’s fair to conclude that Warren Haynes is among the hardest working performers in music today. But for the 23rd greatest guitarist of all time (as determined by Rolling Stone), music doesn’t feel like hard work. Haynes is just doing what he loves, being what he is. He’s a man who loves music. Everything about it, really: creating it, playing it, singing it, experiencing it, appreciating it, sharing it.
“Musicians are the biggest fans,” he says. “That’s why they become musicians in the first place.”
This love of music has led Haynes to some extraordinary collaborations that have defied the laws of genre labeling and propelled his reputation far beyond the notorious boundaries of jamband scene quarantine…
For audiences, to see and hear Warren Haynes perform in any capacity is to witness his love firsthand. To catch him alone on stage, with only his voice and acoustic guitar, drives the point deeper still. The unadulterated emotion he pours into and gleans from music – any music, his own or another’s – takes on the prominence of a lead instrument, sharing in the delivery rather than just inspiring it.
Official Website: http://www.WarrenHaynes.net/
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Frank Gambale
Grammy winning guitar virtuoso, Frank Gambale, exploded on the L.A. scene in the early ‘80’s. His meteoric rise to fame is a testament to his passion powered playing – a style “Rolling Stone Magazine” calls “ferocious!”
Gambale is the undisputed genius who propelled sweep picking from a technique to an art form which continues to inspire generations of musicians. Jazz, rock, metal and prog artists alike are united in their awe of Frank as both an amazing technician and an unsurpassed musician.
As jazz legend, Chick Corea, describes Frank: “Everything you touch with your guitar turns gold – always has.” While John McLaughlin’s tongue-in-cheek response to his finesse is “I’d like to cut his hands off.”
A musician’s musician, gifted composer, brilliant innovator and author of numerous instructional books and DVDs, Frank continues to reach unprecedented sonic and technical heights. His six string prowess and seemingly limitless vision point towards an exciting future of ground breaking music.
His newest release is “Soulmine,” the first collaboration with lyricist/musician and beloved wife and muse, BOCA. “Soulmine” features seriously catchy tunes punctuated with shining vocal harmonies, unexpected sass, funky rhythms and saucy guitar lines. The delicious tones that tie the new tracks together are complimented by the combination of the new Frank Gambale DV Mark Signature line of amps firing up the incredible Gambale Signature FG1 Guitar by Carvin’s Custom Shop.
Official Website: http://www.FrankGambale.com/
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Mimi Fox
Internationally renowned guitarist/composer/recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic’s polls and has been recognized by writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists on today’s scene. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as “a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them.”
Mimi has performed/recorded with some of jazz’s most commanding players, including fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe, Grammy-nominated saxophonists Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez and Houston Person, and the late Don Lanphere, vocalists Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany and Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), B3 organ masters Joey DeFrancesco, Barbara Denerlein and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and powerhouse drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. She has also performed outside of the jazz world with legends Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian and with Patty Larkin’s Vanguard Records-produced La Guitara project.
Mimi has released eight highly acclaimed albums as a leader, including her two most recent on Steve Vai’s Favored Nations label. 2006′s double CD, Perpetually Hip, received rave reviews from scores of publications including the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a glowing Cadence Magazine review, Jim Josselyn said: “…This is simply some of the best guitar music I have heard.”
Official Website: http://www.MimiFoxJazzGuitar.com/
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