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[alistairm]

Any well recorded albums spring to mind? Vocal accompaniment is all good too.

Alistair

[My Rantz]

Jack Johnson for (rock) rhythm.

[emesbee]

Rodrigo y Gabriela

[sligoriverblues]

Jerry Garcia / David Grisman albums are great... Garcia's singing is perhaps not everybody's cup of tea...



The sound is also fantastic.


John Fahey was one of the greatest...

Edited by sligoriverblues, 27 October 2010 - 08:54 PM.

[jezzaboogie]

Any of the recent Bob Brozman albums. Lumiere is escpecially good.

Also, Eric Bibb - Booker's Guitar.

[soundfan]

Doug MacLeod: Come To Find

Excellent acoustic blues.

[jezzaboogie]

Taj Mahal -- De Ole Folks at Home
Neil Young -- Live at Massey Hall 1971
Shakti with John Mclaughlin -- A Handful of Beauty
John Scofield -- Quiet
John Frusciante -- Curtains
Prince -- The Truth

Edited by jezzaboogie, 28 October 2010 - 07:38 AM.
Kept on thinking of more.

[cheekyboy]

+ one for Doug McCleod............actually, any of his albums.

Also, Blue Coast Collection here from Blue Coast Records.

Cheers,

Keith

[mikey d]

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Joe Robinson.....local lad, next valley over from me. Now based in Nashville & voted best new talent in Guitar Player polls. Writes his own music, 20 years old. Won Australia, You've Got Talent a couple of years ago. Nice kid, seriously hot guitar picker.

[Mick35]

If you like classical guitar, these artists are worth exploring.

Julian Bream
Andres Segovia
John Williams
Jorge Morel
Sharon Isbon

Can't remember specific albums off the top of my head, others may help here.

[emesbee]

Leo Kottke, of course. His singing is an acquired taste at best (I haven't acquired it!), but his playing is top-notch. His earlier recordings (especially his first) are the ones to go for, as they have a bit more fire in them. Apparently, he changed his playing style at some point because of some problems he was having with his hand. Having said that, his later recordings are certainly worth a listen, just not quite as dynamic as the earlier stuff.

And if you like flamenco guitar, there is Paco Pena, or Paco de Lucia

[cheekyboy]

Alistair, I'm a bluegrass fan [I know not many are] but if you enjoy some good guitar and banjo picking in that genre, you can't go past Bela Fleck.

Cheers,

Keith

[Monkeyboi]

Santos Bonacci. Heard this guy playing with a canned recording of the backing players in a Melbourne city street one day. South American flavour to his music. All three albums are well worth a listen.
WMA samples can be found here - http://www.santosbon....com/listen.php. Unfortunately the audio quality of the sample tracks from each of the three albums aren't a patch on the excellent CD releases.

Cheers,
Alan R.

[Milo]

Hi Alistair,

lots of suggestions above, what sort of genre are you thinking of?

[Hergest]

Michael Hedges

[emesbee]

You could also try Harry Manx. He plays and sings laid back acoustic blues, but his guitar playing is very nice. Has a strong Indian influence. He went to India and studied under V M Bhatt, and plays the Mohan Vina (a slide guitar modified by V M Bhatt).

Which brings us to, 'A Meeting by the River', by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ry Cooder.

And in a similar vein, 'Calcutta Slide Guitar' by Debashish Battacharya. He has also recorded a CD with Bob Brozman.

[handysteel]

Michael Hedges

+1 great guitarist

[turntable]

great acoustic guitars on this

[av4me]

Craig Chaquico's Acoustic Highway. Overlay after overlay of amazing acoustic guitar work. Native American Indian feel to some tracks. No lyrics. Truely Beautiful Album.

Cheers all

[soundfan]

Jeff Lang: Everything Is Still
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Big Mama Door
Mississippi John Hurt: Avalon Blues
Kelly Joe Phelps: Roll Away The Stone
Martin Sexton: Black Sheep
Steve Earle: Train a Comin'
Rodriguez: Cold Fact
Nick Drake: Pink Moon

[k-k-k-kenny]

I don't promise you the very highest quality, brightest, ringingest guitar sounds, but I will promise you oustanding musicianship on -

Matelo Ferré (or Ferret) - Tzinganskaia - The Django Reinhardt Waltzes
It's part gypsy jazz, part just gypsy, recorded in the '60s

Oscar Aleman - Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957
Just a fabulous player, and a sense of humour too.

Guitar is a pretty easy instrument to record - small and limited dynamic and harmonic range. So yer "historic" guitar stuff is more compatible with modern ears than some other older recordings.

[alistairm]

What superb response, thank you everyone.

I've been kind of picking through my collection a bit lately. Really enjoyed David Roth (who someone on SNA suggested in another thread) and had Livingstone Taylor on, so whacked up this thread. It's going to cost me a fortune, as I'll definitely buy a good chunk of what's been listed above. Not too fussed about genre - anything goes!

The Bela Fleck suggestion resonates too - I heard his music for the first time at Victor's this week, and am definitely going to hunt down some of it asap. No luck at JB Hi Fi or Red Eye this morning, so it's online I go!

[soundfan]

What superb response, thank you everyone.

I've been kind of picking through my collection a bit lately. Really enjoyed David Roth (who someone on SNA suggested in another thread) and had Livingstone Taylor on, so whacked up this thread. It's going to cost me a fortune, as I'll definitely buy a good chunk of what's been listed above. Not too fussed about genre - anything goes!

The Bela Fleck suggestion resonates too - I heard his music for the first time at Victor's this week, and am definitely going to hunt down some of it asap. No luck at JB Hi Fi or Red Eye this morning, so it's online I go!

Good hunting. I love this type of thread, people bringing different things to the table, a good way to discover new music. And thats what this hobby is all about.

[k-k-k-kenny]

I forgot - I have some living guitarists in the collection, too.

But first, another dead one: Lonnie Johson. Unbelievably sophisticated musician for the 1920s.

The living - all gypsy jazz players -
Dorado Schmitt: the album I have is Rendez-Vous, with Pierre Blanchard on violin.
Tchavolo Schmitt: got several, but like most Alors? ... Voila!, because it has accordion as well as violin in the ensemble. He was the guitarist in the film "Swing".
Birelli Lagrène: Gipsy Project
Angelo Debarre: Paroles de Swing. with Ludovic Beier, a MONSTER accordionist

All on über-expensive Selmer or Selmer-type guitars, with nylon strings on GBE

One issue with the gypsy jazz genre and present-day players: the shadow of Django looms over them all, larger than it did over his contemporaries. It CAN get a bit like trad jazz - rhythmically it's very straight, and to make 1, 2, 3, 4 - 1, 2, 3, 4 swing can be done, but takes rare feel. Plus, there can be a reluctance to go outside the standard repertoire, which can get on yer **** after a while.

None of these issues apply to Matelo or Oscar Aleman, though. Aleman brings latin to the table - and how!

[patjoy]

Southern Exposure; The Water Garden - Alex De Grassi
Aerial Boundries - Michael Hedges
Passage - William Ackerman
Continental Shift - Slava Grigoryan

[patjoy]

oh, I forgot, this is well recorded one as well:

Acoustic Live - Nils Lofgren

[tolley]

Lloyd Speigel, local Melbourne boy to boot.

[sligoriverblues]

I was just listening to the first Hot Tuna album. Superb playing, excellent sound.

[frankn]

This will give your system a workout - very quiet passages with excellent fretwork to louder attacking guitar; Acoustic Storm by Robert Stanton
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Edited by frankn, 18 November 2010 - 09:46 PM.
spelling!

[Dapto dog]

Thanks for this tip about Nils Lofgren Live.It is a great album musically with very natural sound.I would never have known about it without your recommendation.You would be hard to please if this did not get your attention

Edited by Dapto dog, 30 November 2011 - 04:45 PM.

[LuzArt]

x2 for Nick Drake's Pink Moon, a beautiful album if a little shady on the recording. Unique playing.

[Mushroom01]

Jack Johnson for (rock) rhythm.

x2 for Jack Johnson. Love his work & spin it very often.

[emesbee]

Another vote here for the Nils Lofgren Acoustic Live CD. I ordered a copy after hearing it at a couple of GTGs at VAF, and it arrived a couple of days ago. Just played it on my system, and it sounds absolutely briliant.

[ochremoon]

Check out:

Michael Chapman
Bert Jansch
John Renbourn
Jorma Kaukonen

All brilliant on acoustic (and sometimes electric) guitar

[buddyev]

Bill Frisell is terrific: Ghost Town, The Willies, and another I can't remember the name of with Frisell/Holland/ Jones

Two great albums by Ry Cooder and friends, must listens!
Ry Cooder & VM Bhatt—A Meeting by the River
RyCooder with Ali Farka Toure — Talking Timbuktu

Gillian Welch's albums all feature brilliant country guitar playing by Dave Rawlings

Ralph Towner-all his albums

Slava Grigoryan - Australian classical and jazz

[dreambrother18]

Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (beautiful pensive lyrics and superb guitar work)

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[warren2503]

Most of what I would recomend are already listed
I would add
An ablum by :
David Ross McDonald
He is an Aussie guitarist
On the album there are 12 tracks where he goes out to visit 12 australian Guitar makers and plays their guitars in there Houses .
It is well recorded and sound fantastic

I got this album after finding it on another thread here

Warren

[Ralph]

Any Classical Guitarist, also -
Martin Taylor
Jesse Cook
Armik

[surprisetech]

For something local:

Andrew Pendlebury - Between the Horizon and the Dockyard (Includes the duet with Stephen Cummings on "She set fire to the house")
Borich and Tilders - The Blues had a Baby. (Kevin Borich on electric - Dutch Tilders on acoustic) Originally a Direct to Disk vinyl release.
Paul Kelly - Post. Many of the songs on this album were redone with a full band on the Gossip double LP, but I love the acoustic versions on Post.
Brian Fraser - Don't ask me. Amazing acoustic blues. Mostly original, but includes my favorite cover of Minnie the Moocher.
George Golla - My favorite guitar. Jazz.

[Demondes]

Martin Taylor
Martin Simpson

+1 Garcia/Grisham albums

[xtrachewy]

A bit folky (esp. if you subscribe to DADGAD tuning and finger-picking): Pierre Bensusan

Sounds of Wood & Steel vol. 1/2/3 - if you're a Taylor fanboy

Willam Carter (Linn) - Early Works for Guitar (a few reviews about - e.g. http://www.6moons.co...bruary/sor.html, http://www.sa-cd.net/showreviews/6345) - note this isn't the most transparent or dynamic (but still fine) recording but it may interest people looking to expand their 'classical' library.

[brettk]

my favourite acoustic guitarist over the last couple of years has been kotaro oshio. a lot of original work and mostly steel string.



http://en.wikipedia....ki/Kotaro_Oshio

also sungha jung is pretty impressive for a youngster

http://www.sunghajung.com/

also does a nice version of waltzing maltida tommy style

http://www.sunghajung.com/95526

[pcking]

Earl Klugh is not bad

Edited by pcking, 10 December 2011 - 10:30 AM.

[frankn]

You could try this album, sounds good on my system - it is a Sheffiled Lab recording so its not bad.
http://music.yahoo.c...c-storm--106690

[emesbee]

Scottish guitarist Ian Melrose. His album, 'Kelpie', with Norwegian singer Kerstin Blodig is quite good. Has some excellent acoustic guitar, including a track based on Dizzy Gillespie's 'Night in Tunisia'. He has done a number of solo albums, but I haven't heard them yet.