I have an acoustic guitar, a 1985 Yamaha FG335II, not a really nice one or anything. I bought it new for $100.00. Looking back, it's a good price for a bound guitar.
It sports the signatures of:
Robert Cray, the first signature I got in 1987. (And his bass player at the time, Richard Cousins) I was and still am a Robert Cray fanboi.
Danny Gatton, 1993. Far and away my favorite guitarist, a little over a year before he died, acquired at the Chestnut Caberet in Phila. summer, 1993. I asked him to scratch it in the wood with a ball point pen like all the other signatures were, but he wouldn't. He used a Sharpie and it's now no longer visible, sad, sad face. It was my most cherished signature.
I didn't know Danny's influences at the time, it was pre-internet for me, so I asked him who HE liked to listen to. His answer:
"Rush Limbaugh, right wing conservative on (some AM radio station)"
Always unexpected.
Rory Block, 1996. I was and still am a Rory Block fanboi as well. I named my son after her. (Rory, not Block) I heard she was seeing Robert Plant recently.
Taj Mahal 1993
Katie Webster 1993
Sonny Rhods 1993 (that's how he spelled it) Rhodes is the proper spelling lol
The above 3 were all from one show I saw at Penns Landing in Philadelphia, called RiverBlues, as it was set with the Delaware River as the background.
Rivers offer good acoustics lol.
I also have 2 local guys signatures on there, Tommy Conwell, who made a small splash for a bit, and a guy called Bluesman Willie, who hogged the most wood on the guitar, out of all the signatures.
That guitar survived a house fire in 1998 and everyone who plays it loves it. The fire pitted the hardware from the acrid smoke, but the wood is just fine. I like to think it may have even added to it's resonance.
A lot of greatness has touched that guitar.