Michael Peter Smith, Janis Ian, Hot Rize, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs and a few others in smaller sized venues.
In stadium sized venues I was lucky enough to catch Crosby & Nash (with Linda Ronstadt as an opener) about 4 feet from the stage (1970's "festival seating"- i.e. no chairs on the main level, just go sit on the floor) but the all time best was seeing Crosby, Stills and Nash from Row 1 Center in an outdoor arena that seated about 25,000. There's nothing like singing along, catching Crosby's eye and have him smile and nod at you. My wife had Graham Nash hand her his pick at that same show (gray nylon .60). Kinda spoils everything else after that.
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