Austin area 🎸 players and musicians I love · The Shawn Lane Guitar Method

Chance Monroe

Apr 6 • Post your Favorite Musicians

Austin area 🎸 players and musicians I love

(Obvious ones first)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jimmie Vaughan/Fabulous Thunderbirds

Eric Johnson

Gary Clark Jr

(ones you probably don’t know)

Chris Duarte (UNBELIEVABLE PLAYER)

Van Wilks (ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST UNDERRATED, best friend’s with Billy Gibbons and EJ. He had SRV’s bass player Tommy Shannon in his band called Fools in the 70s before he went to go play with SRV in Double Trouble. Tommy Shannon was also Johnny Winter’s bass player for awhile too. The band Fools was Austin’s original blues rock trio. I am friends with Van and have taken lessons from him before.)

David Grissom (very cool and unique style)

Monte Montgomery (killer acoustic player, friend’s with Tommy Immanuel)

Jake Andrews (friends with EJ, AMAZING PLAYER. I am friends with him and have taken lessons from him as well.)

Ian Moore (a vibe of his own)

Will Owen Gage (unbelievable left handed 🎸player from San Antonio area)

Gary Cain (Canadian, lived here for a little bit, now lives in England. Imagine SRV, Eric Johnson and Danny Gatton put into one man, that’s Gary. CRAZY!!)

Dave Scher (MONSTER 🎸 PLAYER!! Has played many shows and toured with Eric Johnson, just out of this world as a musician in general, plays multiple instruments, sings, etc. But his guitar playing is unreal)

Billy White (from Austin, played guitar with Don Dokken for a little bit and then moved back to Austin and had his own cool band called the Billy White Trio. Outstanding guitar player, now I believe he’s a Buddhist monk. My aunt went to high school with him. She knew he was gonna go play for Don Dokken before the word got out.)

Shane Johnson (Imagine Dragons guitar/amp tech lives in the Austin area when not touring with them. He builds/repairs guitars, amps, pedals, etc but is also one of the best guitar players I’ve ever seen in my life!!!)

Jennifer Harrold (baddest girl ever. She’s like a female Jimi Hendrix)

Johnny McGowan is a badass country and rockabilly player

David Spann (shredder from Hell, similar to EJ)

Darius Jackson

Jelly Ellington

Brad Stivers

Dave Orr

Kelly Green (the guitar queen)

Jackie Venson

Doyle Bramhall Jr (played with SRV, toured with Eric Clapton, left handed. Badass player and songwriter)

Sean Michael Giddings (killer keyboard player)

WC Clark (Godfather of Austin blues, played bass and sang with SRV before he was famous in a band called Triple Threat Revue. But he also had his own solo career as a singer/guitar player. I saw and met him a few times before he passed away. He had SOUL like you wouldn’t believe. Sang almost exactly like Al Green.)

Denny Freeman (played guitar with SRV in a band called the Cobras in the 70s before he was famous. Denny was one of the best guitar players ever! And he had a cool ass pin striped Strat which I’ve never seen any other Strat look like that)

Bands:

Vallejo

Arc Angels (SRV’s Double Trouble band with Doyle Bramhall Jr and Charlie Sexton trading guitar licks and vocals)

Storyville (Double Trouble with David Grissom on guitar and Malford Milligan singing)

SoulHat

Push Monkey

Fastball

Kalu & The Electric Joint

The Resentments

The Drakes

(This is off the top of my head. I’m sure many more will come)

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