Share yours as well.. I just don't want to miss any good tunes...

My five all time favourite fingerstyle tunes:

Wu Wei - Pierre Bensusan
Nothing's too good "for a friend" - Doyle Dykes
Little Wing - Laurence Juber
Guitar Boogie - Tommy Emmanuel
Waltz for the lonely - Chet Atkins

Theres a lot more but the above five is the most played songs in my iTune Library.

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A lot of good tunes come & go, but tis 5 are my current favs.

1) Cobalt Blue - Laurence Juber
2) Summertime - Eric Skye
3) Moon Flower "Yie Lai Xiang" - Roger Wang
4) Windy & Warm - Chet Atkins
5) still..Windy & Warm - Tommy Emmanuel

Of course there are much more than 5 here... maybe we shud hv top 10 favs instead.

Great topic Ed. 5 is hard but these are some of the very best:
1. Anji, Paul Simon
2. Merrily Kissed the Quaker, Pierre Bensusan
3. The English Dance, John Renbourn
4. Jesu Joy, Leo Kottke
5. Windy and Warm, John D.Loudermilk

Loudermilk, who wrote the tune, has some sublime embellishments that the others seem to miss. I don't mean to drop names but when I was at Pierre Bensusans house (Paris) one day he played a tune for me called Jockey to the Fair, not yet recorded. This would definitely make the top 5. I was kidding him about playing a Beatles tune and he said he never plays "other stuff". I said come on try something and he proceeded to play THE best version of Yesterday I have ever heard, in DADGAD!!

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he said he never plays "other stuff". I said come on try something and he proceeded to play THE best version of Yesterday I have ever heard, in DADGAD!!

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I love Pierre Bensusan's music a lot!! He did play some "other stuff", I think he played a version of "Scarborough Fair" in his latest album. And it is also very nicely done!

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Ed, since you also like Pierre you ought to check out the acoustic guitar work on "The town that I loved so well". In my (and several friends) opinion it is the most delicious guitar sound ever. Ever. Since it is not a pure instrumental I did not list in in the Top 5. It was played on a Gurian, DADGAD, Capo 7, when he was 17 years old!! (It is on his Pres de Paris disc which gets my vote for best acoustic album in the history of mankind). I've been trying to convert him to Collings and have taken him to The Old Woodshed on Signal Hill Dr. many times. Maybe one day...... (sidenote: Jim Olson made him a guitar which he promptly returned).

My faves:

Martin Simpson: Banks of the Bann
Ed Gerhard: The Handing Down
Pierre Bensusan: 4 AM
Guy Van Duser: Seneca Slide
Eric Schoenberg: Sidh Beag Agis Sidh Mor

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Originally posted by collingscowboy:
Ed, since you also like Pierre you ought to check out the acoustic guitar work on "The town that I loved so well". In my (and several friends) opinion it is the most delicious guitar sound ever. Ever. Since it is not a pure instrumental I did not list in in the Top 5. It was played on a Gurian, DADGAD, Capo 7, when he was 17 years old!! (It is on his Pres de Paris disc which gets my vote for best acoustic album in the history of mankind). I've been trying to convert him to Collings and have taken him to The Old Woodshed on Signal Hill Dr. many times. Maybe one day...... (sidenote: Jim Olson made him a guitar which he promptly returned).

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I don't have his Pres de Paris CD, seems like I have to get one! I think Pierre Bensusan have Ryan built him a guitar last year as well.. a Pierre Bensusan Signature Model.. Did he returned it as well??!! I am curious to know how it'll be if Pierre plays a Collings with his gentle, melodic touch.

No, as far as I know he hasn't returned it. The great guitarists sound good no matter what they play. I have a "campfire" Ovation which Pierre played and made it sound like a Brazilian Collings. I have pictures of Pierre playing many Collings that I can send you!! In fact, I have a picture of Pierre playing his Lowden AT the Collings factory.......

Collingscowboy.. please send those pictures to me!! I would like to see them and if you allow, share them with the members here!!

So Pierre visited the Collings factory as well? How he find it?

Yes Ed, I have taken Pierre there a few times. He loves Collings but I feel he depends on his guitar giving him an open, "airy" tone which Lowden's have and Collings don't. When I play in dadgad I prefer to play my Lowden too. Although my good friend John Renbourn described one of my Collings, an OM in Brazilian/Engelmann, as the best guitar he has ever played, it doesn't have that wet Irish sound. I have played Pierre's guitar many times (personally made by George Lowden) and it's great, but for anything outside of dadgad, I'd take my Collings any day.
I am leaving almost immediately for an overseas trip for 5 weeks and will send the pictures upon my return. Keep up the good work.