Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull. Perhaps the most overlooked acoustic guitarist in all of rock and roll. Reading him in interviews, he always seems rather humble about his guitar playing. I think I remember he called himself 'lazy' or perhaps even 'sloppy' - but some of his arpeggios, his hammer-ons/pull-offs, the way he can take a phrase and turn it into a breeze, and then that breeze becomes a hurricane.
His acoustic guitar tunes are as intricate as calculous, yet, they create a tapestry that you feel like you can just pull off that castle wall and fly out across the moors toward snowpeaked mountains.
At least, that's how I see it.
-VG
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