The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

His skillful guitar playing and impressive vocal ranges opened the door for a new generation of male solo blues performers such as Furry Lewis, Charlie Patton, and Barbecue Bob.

Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently in disco than in rock.

In the 1970s, McLean usually toured solo but from 1981 to 1996 was accompanied by John Platania on guitar.

In the 21st century, European avant garde composers like Richard Barrett, Fausto Romitelli, Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang, Claude Ledoux and Karlheinz Essl have used the electric guitar ( together with extended playing techniques ) in solo pieces or ensemble works.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

A traditional concert has only a singer and one guitar while a dance concert usually includes two or three guitars, one or more singers singing solo in turn and one or more dancers.

Montoya also created a new palo as a solo for guitar, the rondeña in C sharp with scordatura.

The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerpicking technique.

The shows feature Brooks performing solo with his own guitar accompaniment, and include his own hits as well as songs that have influenced him.

Asturias ( Leyenda ) in particular is heard most often on the guitar, as are Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Cataluña, Cordoba and the Tango in D. Gordon Crosskey and Cuban-born guitarist Manuel Barrueco have both made solo guitar arrangements of six of the eight-movement Suite espanola.

Selections from Iberia have rarely been attempted on solo guitar but have been very effectively performed by guitar ensembles, such as the performance by John Williams and Julian Bream of Iberia's opening " Evocation.

It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII period that the guitar took as a versatile instrument, which was used both in the rhythm section and as a featured melodic instrument and solo improviser.

Pieces for solo kora, duets with cello, viola, guitar and koto, suites for flute, guitar and three koras.

Common effects are hearing the reverberation effects on the voice track ( due to stereo reverb on the vocals not being in the center ); also, other instruments ( snare / bass drum, bass guitar and solo instruments ) that happen to be mixed into the center get removed, degrading this approach to hardly more than a gimmick in those devices.

The first track of John Fahey's 1968 solo acoustic guitar album Requia is entitled " Requiem For John Hurt ".

Also during this period, he composed the majority of the solo pieces, duo-sonatas, trios and quartets for the guitar.

Chuck Berry's 1955 classic " Maybellene " in particular features a distorted electric guitar solo with warm overtones created by his small valve amplifier.

Richman grew up in Natick, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and began playing guitar and writing songs in his mid teens, first performing solo in public in 1967.

The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

Even in that he never solos like Jack on guitar or Rich on sax.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

A cutaway guitar has a redesigned upper bout that removes a section of the soundbox on the underside of the neck, hence the name " cutaway ".

Until the 1960s, the predominant forms of music played on the flat-top, steel-string guitar remained relatively stable and included acoustic blues, country, bluegrass, folk, and several genres of rock.

Some of these tracks, including audio of Korner himself, appear on the Hendrix double-CD BBC Sessions, including Korner playing slide guitar on "( I'm Your ) Hoochie Coochie Man ".

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

He often plays songs on his acoustic guitar which typically end in him being severely hurt and in some cases almost killed.

The sleeve notes continue: " When Bill Haley was fifteen he left home with his guitar and very little else and set out on the hard road to fame and fortune.

It was actually just an electric guitar with a triangular shape that was based on the original instrument.

Jefferson's singing and self-accompaniment were distinctive as a result of his high-pitched voice and originality on the guitar.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

King has always maintained that Jefferson was a huge influence on his singing and guitar playing.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

The band played regularly on a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station, and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound.

Asaf Savaş Akat, a famous economist in Turkey, played saxophone, and guitarist Ender Enön made his own guitar because it was difficult to find a real one on the market in those years.

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

Another musician deeply influenced by Son House is the slide player John Mooney, who in his teens learned slide guitar from Son House while House was living in Rochester, New York.

Norman indicated in 1991 that he had wanted to postpone Something New under the Son, the first album in a projected second cycle of seven albums, but to record: " a more street-orientated, guitar based, trash can orchestra of angry and honest songs I was writing and recording.

* Recorded on the Telac record label Son Seals Legendary song " funky bitch " along with Jeff " Jabo " Bihlman ( guitar ) and Scot " Little " Bihlman ( drums ) www. bihlmanbros. com

Mark Spencer, formerly of Blood Oranges and the touring guitarist for many Jay Farrar solo shows, joined Son Volt in 2008 as a keyboardist and steel guitar player.

The band, now minus Cheves, signed to 4AD Records in 2000 and released the soundtrack for Spanish director, Bigas Lunas ' Son de Mar movie in 2001 described as " ethereal, delayed guitar lines ... accompanied by various ambient sounds ".

Outside of his band, George played guitar on John Cale's 1973 album Paris 1919, Harry Nilsson's Son of Schmilsson album ( Take 54 ) and ( uncredited but verified by Leo Nocentelli ) The Meters ' Just Kissed My Baby in 1974.

* 2002: Thunderstone – Thunderstone ( guitar solo on " Like Father, Like Son ")

Son combines the structure and elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin.

In the 1920s, Blind Lemon Jefferson innovated the style by using jazz-like improvisation and single string accompaniment on a guitar ; Jefferson's influence defined the field and inspired later performers, like Lightnin ' Hopkins, Lil ' Son Jackson, and T-Bone Walker.

* Son Sonora, flute and guitar

It also features " Cheepnis ", Zappa's tribute to low-budget monster movies, and reworks of earlier tracks such as " More Trouble Every Day " and " Son of Orange County " ( excerpted from the song " Oh No " and given an extended guitar solo ).

Hardy had previously played bass guitar for Hole on the 1993 single " Beautiful Son.

The group is composed of JBOT, the human " slave " to the robots ( whose intestines hang from his abdomen ); DRMBOT 0110, a severed doll's head that plays the drums ; GTRBOT666, who plays bass and guitar ; AUTOMATOM, the assistant drummer created by robots, The Ape Which Hath No Name who plays tambourine halo ; The Son of the Ape Which Hath No Name, who plays Monkey Cymbals ; and the Headless Hornsmen, a full three-piece horn section.