Your favorite one-man band!


On my list

1. Jean Michelle Jare -- Second to no one. 
2. Buckethead -- best one-man guitar band using special effects, loops, pedals and drum buttons on his guitar.
3. Tommy Emanuel -- super good electro acoustic finger style guitar player.
4. Henry Kaiser -- sophisticated guitars with special effects.
5. Bill Nelson -- similar to Henry Kaiser.
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Great subject!

Dave Edmunds, the fantastic Welsh guitarist, singer, and producer (The Everly Brothers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Stray Cats, his and Nick Lowe’s Group Rockpile, many others). His first two albums Rockpile (album title, not the Group) and Subtle As A Flying Mallet are mostly all he playing and singing every note. My favorite living musician.

Emitt Rhodes, whose self-titled debut album is he alone playing every instrument and singing every note of the all self-written songs. Better than the released-around-the-same-time debut solo album by my next nominee.

Paul McCartney, obvious but still worthy.

I just heard Marshall Crenshaw's fantastic version of Dylan's "My Back Pages" on You Tube. You may have heard The Byrds excellent hit version, but I like Marshall's version, found on the Bleecker Street various artists album, even more. And that reminded me that he is a multi-instrumentalist, playing and singing every part on his super-fine #447 album.