Originally Posted by: William MG

Fun topic Jeff.

I just got into this band a few years ago - Big Wreck, and asked myself - why haven't I been listening to these guys all along?

^^^ My thoughts exactly. Not specifically about "Big Wreck", but generally so many names that I have learned about since (trying to) learning guitar. If I should ever just say "the heck with it" I will remain grateful for all the guitarists that I have found out about as a result of studying guitar and forums like this.

If not for learning my sphere would not have expanded, probably, beyond Santana and Clapton!

One name that has been criminally under exposed is Roy Buchanon. Maybe this is a bit of self-contradiction since there was, as I understand it, actually a documentary called (something like) "The Greatest Guitarist You Have Never Heard of". Do a Youtube search with his name and "The Mesiah Will Come".

A couple more guitarists that my wife and I are listening to a lot of late are Chris Cain and Michael Burkes.

Not a specific name but group are all the old blues guys. Any of those old delta guys, and especially the ones that migrated to Chicago, have become study subjects of mine. Again using Mr. Santana and Mr. Clapton as refence points, I just knew them as rock guys. But because of studying guitar I have learned that they are really blues guys.

Years ago my son took me to a Santana concert in Chicago. On stage Carlos made some reference to it being great to be in Chicago, "the home of Buddy Guy". That now makes sense.