Amongst these comforting ideas and outputs was a link to a YouTube video, and there I found my obsession. The sound is entoxicating. There's nothing like it, and I've embedded it in my skin now.
A man named Andy Mckee, a simple guy from Kansas, has been playing guitar for 15 odd years now, since he was 13 years old. His sound is unbelievable, and I guess I could post it in the "What I'm Listening To" thread, but I wanted to see how many of you out there have heard of him, and think he is as amazing as I do.

