Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed are indeed great players. Glen Campbell, even though he is a famous star in his own right is well remembered here in Hollywood as being once a member of the highly admired and regarded group of session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew", the cream of Musician's Local #47. Campbell was a standout in a gathering of standouts. They backed pretty much every pop, rock, C&W, or nearly any other genre artists recording in Hollywood. Glen provided guitar work on albums or singles by the Beach Boys, The Monkees, and the Byrds, as well as other 'straight' acts like Sinatra, King Cole, Dean Martin, etc. He was the entire package: singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and more. It is a shame Alzheimer's has taken its toll on him; just yesterday, I heard a report on the radio of his wife saying Glen's condition has progressed so much, he can no longer play or hold a guitar...
Roy Clark is in a class of his own. Back in about the mid 60s or so, I saw him on a TV show where talked about not being a very good finger-picker and how he had learned to adapt finger-style compositions to flat-pick style. He then played his version of a Spanish finger-style number he had just recently sussed out; he was very nervous about playing the song and was visibly sweating even as he started to play. The number he was trying out later became a staple of his stage act and almost a signature number. This video shows him playing a composition that even for adept finger-pickers can be challenging; the first and last bit of the video is a bit marred by some long ago TV producer trying to add some psychedelic touches:
Speaking of the Malaguena and referring back to female guitarists, a lot of people are unaware of one lady who, although best known as as the "Cuchi-Cuchi" girl, is a really great classical Spanish guitarist. Charo was, at a very young age, a student of Andres Segovia:
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