While her set list was simply wonderful, you can tell with Kaki King that you are watching a truly gifted musician, not so much by the music itself, but by the sounds between songs. I watched all night, dumbfounded as the tiny American girl moved back and forth between open string tunings in around 5 seconds flat.

In her hands, guitar-oriented instrumental music is a joy to behold. There's no self indulgence, there's simply a world class musician blowing your mind with both gorgeously simple phrasing and stellar technical ability.

Walking out on stage, immediately apologizing for jetlag and asking if she was indeed 'in Brisbane', King has a humble and beautiful way about her, and this rubs off on the smallish audience within minutes. There would have been about 150 people maximum in the room to see her set and still she put on a performance worthy of the tens of thousands she would perform in front of when jamming live with the Foo Fighters.

Her freakish right-hand tapping technique, especially on acoustic, gives her faster songs a real grind, and by the time fan favourite "Playing With Pink Noise" rolls around, she's well and truly at 'listening to the record in your bedroom' quality performance.

The sound is perfectly mixed for the smallish room at the Powerhouse. The acoustic guitar's amplified sound has enough boom for the percussive elements of her playing to resonate, but is punchy enough for the tapping effects to cut through. Proving that no style of guitar music is beyond her grasp, Kaki's set ranges from soft jazz to ambient to acoustic tapping to few-and-far-between moments of jaw dropping speed playing, and she handles it all with aplomb.

To me, the recent brand of "guitar god" is earnestly deserved and as soon as King seems far too down to Earth for such hyperbole (such as stopping a song partway through to laugh and recall a story about shoes, which was the integral introduction she wanted to give to the song), she'll play something that reminds you of her inimitable status in the acoustic world.

Some of the songs she features include her fan-favourites like "Close Your Eyes And You'll Burst into Flames", as well as material from new album "...Until We Felt Red" like "I Never Said I Love You". Her newer material sees King singing, utilizing a soft jazz voice, which contrasts well against the set list. She also showcases her lap steel and electric guitar abilities, both of which are as tasteful as the audience has grown to expect.

Between engaging audience banter, recalling stories of the road and an evening of virtuosic guitar playing, King's one woman show is something every fan of the guitar should experience.

A virtuoso in every sense of the word and a complete master of her craft.