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Leo Kottke

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Sandy Bull

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Elizabeth Cotten

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Peter Lang

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Steffen Basho-Junghans

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Sir Richard Bishop

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James Blackshaw

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James Blackshaw is a London-based guitarist and pianist, born in 1981. Blackshaw primarily plays an acoustic 12 string guitar and has been compared to Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Jack Rose, and Leo Kottke. He has released albums on the labels Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Static, Digitalis Industries, Important Records, and Tompkins Square and most recently signed with Young God Records.