I stumbled across Andy McKee a couple years ago. His technical ability and level of guitar skill is way beyond me, but watching his videos still inspires me to think about music differently.
When Andy plays the guitar, he plays the whole thing… not just the frets and the strings. He uses the body as a percussive instrument while he plays the strings by both strumming them and hitting them. He’s really turned the acoustic guitar into a completely new instrument when he plays it.
Here’s a video of his song called Drifting:
Brilliant post – i love andy mckee – incredible player. If you are into instrumental music Rodrigo and Gabriella are amazing – http://www.rodgab.com/ ,awesome stuff. Matt Stevens is good, instrumental stuff http://www.mattstevensguitar.com and for Mckee type things erik mongrain is amazing.