BEST OF 2021: The Best Acoustic Guitarist pits some of the world’s finest players against each other, representing a list of some of the most astonishing pickers and acoustic innovators from across the globe.
This year’s list rounds-up established greats and exciting newcomers from the USA, Russia, UK and, of course, one long-standing Australian acoustic behemoth…
The Australian titan of acoustic guitar takes your top spot for 2021. He didn’t feature in last year’s list, yet has roared back to claim the crown. This year’s been relatively quiet for Emmanuel, in terms of releases, but he’s been touring and recently treated fans to a new EP recorded with UK guitarist Richard Smith.
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The British acoustic guitarist and YouTube icon has been busy launching a podcast (the excellently titled Mike Dawes Has A Podcast) in 2021. He also put out a killer collaborative single with your number one, Emmanuel, who appears on Dawes’ jaw-dropping instrumental cover of Somebody That I Used To Know.
The Italian fingerstyle guitarist was one of the finalists in Guitar World’s Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year competition in 2020. In 2021, he followed it up by releasing his spell-binding new album Moonshine.
Our 2020 number one hasn’t gone anywhere. We’ve not had a new album this year (2020’s The Faintest Idea will have to hold you for now) but the UK virtuoso and percussive innovator celebrated the 10th anniversary of his breakthrough track Passionflower in 2021.
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The original YouTube guitar crush put out his first new collection in almost 10 years in 2021, in the form of Symbol. A six-track EP of covers it included McKee’s reworking of Prince’s Purple Rain, as well as his first electric recording, a take on The Rocky IV soundtrack medley, featuring its composer Vince DiCola!
The bluegrass sensation has been busy touring and teaching in 2021, sharing some of the technique behind her astonishing picking in her column for our sister title, Guitar World. She also recently dropped a new single She’ll Change –an exciting taste of things to come in 2022.
The US player’s second album Urban Driftwood, released earlier this year, takes a ‘knock you down with a feather’ approach to acoustic playing. Her glassy, buoyant and innovative compositions have created a meditative escapism for listeners caught in another tumultuous year.
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Our 2018 Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year winner Alexandr Misko put out Take Your Time this year, an album of invivgorating collaborations with bassist Dmitry Toporov. He’s also been plugging away releasing some incredible acoustic covers of everything from Bomfunk MCs’ Freestyler to Rammstein and Toto.
The 21-year-old Polish fingerstyle guitarist featured on America’s Got Talent I n 2019, but caught the attention of some major names this year with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir. Tom Morello, Vernon Reid and Paul Stanley were all left open-mouthed at his robust take on the tune, which smartly borrowed the natural reverb of a car park.
Simpson released two albums of blazing bluegrass picking in the form of the Cuttin’ Grass records at the tail end of 2020. Since then, invigorated by those sessions, he’s put together a stellar new Western-style concept record, The Ballad Of Doom And Juanita, which smartly forges Kentucky mythology into heart-wrenching story songs.
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Roger Waters on his dramatic Dark Side Of The Moon Redux: It's been part of our lives for 50 years and yet we are still not yet breathing in the airSome of the acoustic guitar players in this rundown are the hardest working players we know – touring, creating, striving to maintain their craft. It's a difficult journey to maintain and especially so in this year. Which makes their achievements all the more impressive.
Just a cursory listen to Jon Gomm's new album The Faintest Idea is a reminder of the incredible level of detail and trailblazing spirit he brings to percussive fingerstyle guitar playing.
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Now signed to Kscope records after years as an independent artist, Gomm's ability to create an intimate and emotional performance regardless always shines through. An inspirational musician.
The British virtuoso released new music in 2020 in the shape of the short and very sweet William Shatner's Pants, but also gave us other highlights including the live release Shows and Distancing: Live in the USA, his wonderful tribute to Eddie Van Halen that you can see below – and the launch of the new nattily titled Mike Dawes Has A Podcast.
We're absolutely delighted to see the support Christie Lenée received in the poll this year – as the winner of our Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year in 2019, readers may have already been familiar with her incredible fingerstyle playing and uplifting songwriting. Now hopefully even more people will be.
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It's great to see a player who integrates classical guitar as well as steel-string but to really understand Maneli's depth of influences as a player, it's worth watching his documentary below. Born to Iranian parents in exile in Europe, his upbringing inspires his East-meets-West musical themes.
We're not surprised to see one of the world's greatest contemporary bluegrass players receiving your support, and her 2020 album, …but I'd rather be with you, saw a remarkable ability to fuse her roots influences to Tuttleize songs she grew up with by bands including Rancid, The National and The Grateful Dead.
Another Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year alumni; Karlijn was a finalist in our 2018 competition. She's gone on to consistently showcase her wonderful gift for atmospheric arrangements. The stunning Golden Hour above is a choice example.
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She'd already proved equally adept as part of a duo dynamic with Ladislav Pazdera for last year's Meraki and we eagerly await what the future holds for one of the greatest young acoustic players in the world right now
Yep, another GOTY winner – Alexandr was in the final alongside Karlijn and dazzled us with his fingerstyle percussive skills. This year saw the Russian virtuoso apply his talents to some unexpected Eminem and MC Hammer covers to great effect, but as he proves above with a looper pedal, his own incredible innovative compositions are where his reputation is founded.
This year saw the US firebrand return to his acoustic bluegrass roots after 2019's electric Sound & Fury, and he brought his back catalogue with him to the Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville for Cuttin' Grass Vol 1's often one-take interpretations with a stellar band.
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Simpson is such a talent as a vocalist and songwriter it's sometimes easy to overlook what a mean picker he is – but the affirmation is all here.
A startlingly mature musical talent even as a teenager, Marling's star continues to ascend at the age of 30. The parallels with Joni Mitchell stand, and the lyricism makes Marling's focussed and driving playing easy to take for granted.
No new album this year but John Smith did track a record at Real World Studios recently. If 2019's Burden Of The Road is the sign of things to come, it's going to be special. But then his fans already know what this man is capable of.
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A truly gifted acoustic folk and electric guitar player, the greater personal intimacy of Smith's songs in recent years is taking his music to a new level.
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Roger Waters on his dramatic Dark Side Of The Moon Redux: It's been part of our lives for 50 years and yet we are still not yet breathing in the airEven a cursory look at our list of the finest acoustic players of the last 12 months offers a cross-section of bonafide legends, established names and exciting young players –the level of talent on offer is, frankly, formidable.
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Our winner Tommy Emmanuel was a clear favourite, bagging almost a third of the total votes cast, but every musician on this list is capable of making your jaw drop and your heart ache.
The Australian wizard has long been hailed as one of the impressive players in the acoustic world and few will debate his position at the top of this list. Tommy kicked off 2019 by collaborating with another iconic player, John Knowles, on the covers album Heart Songs and has spent another year globe-trotting, taking in Europe, Asia and three stints across the US.
Thompson celebrated his 70th birthday in 2019 as many of
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