Excellent/Great Non-Famous Guitar Players

I saw Tommy Tripplehorn perform many times when I lived in Tulsa in the 80s. He was great.

His stunning daughter Jeanne was in the early 80s a DJ on Tulsa’s classic rock station KMOD, before she moved to NYC to become a stage and screen and TV actor (first big movie roles were in Basic Instinct and Waterworld).

Tommy Crook is another great Tulsa guitar player, not well known nationally. Here he is playing with Shelby Eicher on fiddle and Shelby’s sons on bass. Many years ago, Shelby played fiddle in Roy Clark’s band, but for the past couple of decades, he has played in various ensembles in Tulsa, including with his wife and sons.

 

Here’s Jim Lower picking in his barber shop in Kansas City. He was playing in Branson when I moved here in 1992, but headed to KC a few years later.

He starts getting fancy at about 1:45.

 

- Scotty Anderson -


Cincy/ Northern KY area

 

Jim Campilongo and Duke Levine

 

Tommy Tedesco -- I used to love his Guitar Player column, and he played on just about every soundtrack on network television in the 1970s:

 

Doug Pettibone

 

John Masino

https://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/john-masino-hometown-hero/

I used to work at the same place as he does. Got to hear him play a lot of different stuff.

 

Phil Baugh

 

Scott Tipping. Incredible player and musician.

 

Eugene Edwards

 

I think:

Jeff Walls -RIP--super cool southern gent... was lucky enough to have been able to play with him when the Woggles swung thru DC some years back.

 

Craig Bowers, Vero Beach, Florida.
(Find him, if you can: Duane Allman listened to him... you should too: if you can find him))
Rob Mackenzie, Los Angeles, formerly Melbourne, Australia.
(The first artist signed to Mushroom Records: Aussies will know what that means...
Nobody better, just different.)
Andy Most. Phil Gough. Chris Brokaw.
Off the top of my head)

 

Define “Non-Famous”. I’ll go with Tom Bukovac & Brent Mason.

 

Bukovac wasn't famous till this spring when he fired up Homeskoolin'. One of the best things on the internet.

 

I always loved Warner Hodges.

 

I was in the Navy stationed at NAS Cecil Field at the time Doyle mentions about the sailor who inspired him to play guitar. I ran into Doyle a couple of times at a local music store ran my a friend of mine. He is IMHO a master acoustic guitar player and also holds his own on a Tele He has visited Fuller Guitars in Houston (TX) in past years and I always attended his demo performances.


Enjoy: