Which acoustic guitar players did you try to emulate when you were starting out?

[Gypsyblue]

Originally Posted by SpruceTop

Bob Dylan, especially his first two or three albums.

Me too.

Joan Baez as well.

But mostly Bob Dylan.

[bbarkow]

James Taylor, Jim Croce, John Denver - and anyone else I could steal from.

[Strummertime]

My Mum was a rudimentary fingerstyle player and had an old Nylon guitar and I obsessively listen to her Dylan and Baez records.

Initially I was always much more interested in songs and songwriters and less about how they were playing their guitars, although I liked appegiated and finger-style playing.

I later got into people like Davy Graham, Richard Thompson, Bert Jansch, Big Jim Sullivan, Nik Drake and then started to appreciate more adventurous playing.