Where the songs come from
Guitar since childhood. Baritone. These are the people who taught me, from a distance, what a song can do.
Voice Foothill High School Madrigals, Santa Ana. College Choir, UC Irvine.
Rock and roll, songwriters and pathfinders
1950s
- Chuck Berry
- Ray Charles
- Bobby Darin
- Elvis Presley
- The Everly Brothers
- Buddy Holly
1960s
- The Beatles
- The Beach Boys
- The Moody Blues
- The Who
1970s
- Boston
- Kansas
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Queen
1980s
- The Cars
- Dire Straits
Always
- Church hymns
Guitar heroes
- Chet Atkins
- Glen Campbell
- Eric Clapton
- Rory Gallagher
- Peter Green
- Brian May
- Tom Scholz
Theme and style leaders
- Bob Dylan
- John Fogerty
- Justin Hayward
- Billy Joel
- Lennon and McCartney
- Don McLean
- Paul Simon
- James Taylor
- Brian Wilson
Genres
- Bossa nova
- Classical
- Christian and religious
- Country
- Folk
- Pop
- Rock
Classical composers
- Brahms
- Chopin
- Grieg
- Tchaikovsky
The Spanish school
Composers
- Albéniz
- Granados
- Rodrigo
Guitarists
- Julian Bream
- Paco de Lucía
- Andrés Segovia
- Carles Trepat
- John Williams