HatTrick66 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Check out Rodrigo y Gabriela. Duo formerly in a heavy metal band together. They cover Stairway to Heaven and Metallica's Orion. Otherwise very latin sounding. They are somehow able to produce a nice amount of percussion with guitars only. Their most recent CD also includes a DVD. You have to see these guys to appreciate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliclaytor Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Some of these guys i have never heard of in my long life but hopefully we can educate us young whiper snappers on who taught the guys that are on the radio...like who is eric clapton? j/k but really i hadn't heard of john renbourn. Maybe next we can get a blues thread going. I checked out most of the suggestions (not exhaustively though)...I have some Renbourn, Menthey, and more Clapton on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthfreek Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I'll have to second the John Fahey suggestion. My favorite is titled America. Any of his Christmas albums are also highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsman Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 David Pritchard Air Patterns or Velocity, both are very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrinkles Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 My recommendations would be gypsy fire on the Narada World label . I get lots of oohs and ahhhs when listening with friends and playing this CD. Shows off the system as well. This next one, I use to have in my alarm clock to wake up by. Also on the Narada label. Obsession: New Flamenco Romance Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedball Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Acoustic Alchemy's earlier stuff is nice. Very well recorded. Wife and I very much like Acoustic Alchemy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Michael, did you see Robert Plant will be releasing a new album, collaborating with a quite unexpected artist? So much for Eastern influences, should be quite a duo! Takes me back to LZIII with it's admitted country flair. What else would you get recording on a broken down cottage on a sheep farm in South Snowdonia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmsummer Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 SIR JOHN ALOT OF John Renbourn Lost Lake Arts, via Transatlantic (and Reprise) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 For a fairy new artist, check out youtube and look for Andy McKee, or use this link: He has one album out. The guy is simply amazing. Listen on something good. He also has tracks on a harp guitar. I think his regular acoustic is either a Lowden or an Avalon. If you don't like his music, I would really be surprised. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenntarheel Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 I'll 2nd Leo Kottke's "6- and 12- String Guitar." and add: Django Reinhardt, Peche à la Mouche: The Great Blue Star Sessions, Not the best recording quality but his playing transcends the technology. The Doc Watson recording "Down South" (sugar hill) because i was 2nd engineer (seriously!) recorded on an Ampex 8 track w/Dolby and mastered on a (digital) sony F1 processor/Betamax in 1984! To my knowledge, the very first (if crude) digital master in the South? Country? Great mics and classic recording technique. Doc always said it sounded more like his guitar than any other recording. Bright, but his guitar WAS bright, and the room was wood & stone. Alison Krause & Union Station "Every Time You Say Goodbye" is just awesome. Jeffrey Foucault "Ghost Repeater" is a very intimate mostly acoustic record i always thought the acoustic guitar on JC melloncamp's recordings was really well done- and this is judging from the radio over the years as i do not have anything by him - but the acoustic guitar always jumps out at me when i hear his stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lindsey Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 I thought you wanted recommendations of recordings with just an acoustic guitar (no vocals, bass, percussion, etc). If you want recommendations where the acoustic guitar is the predominant instrument then I can give you a few of those as well. The 2 Michael Hedges CD's I suggested are just of him playing an acoustic guitar (although at times he sounds like he's playing a couple of them). Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthfreek Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 All those guys trying to cop Michael Hedges are driving me nuts. Let me just tune up to an open chord and smack the guitar around...no offense but it's easier than it appears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lindsey Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 None taken... I've seen him twice and he was an exceptional guitarist (smacks and all). That, and the music is very good and well recorded to boot. ymmv... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauln Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Michael Hedges was the real deal - a gifted and creative original artist, and a beautiful soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Try some Gypsy Kings. Might as well start off with "the best of." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Also try the best of the Ka'au Crater Boys, which being Hawaiian, has guitars and ukuleles, and has some mighty fine pickin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfoss99 Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 I recommend Ed Gerhard for solo accoustic. I don't have any of his albums, but I did see him in concert earlier this year and he is very good. He also plays a variety of guitars and a variety of styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliclaytor Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 As with most threads things kind of travel down a road of their own...all things that have some amazing acoustic tracks recorded well are fair game i suppose. Also, as a suggestion for all...the extended version of John Williams The Guitarist is very good imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erland Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 SaraK and Cris Jones - Live - "are we there yet" Stockfish records There are vocals aswell on this record, but the sound quality and recording Gunter Pauler has done here, are something way out of the ordinary. It has been written that the Stockfish records are the best and cheapest upgrade you can make to your system. After hearing one, I think you will agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodog Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Tommy Emmanuel and Jim Nichols, two acoustic flatpickers at the top of their game, recorded 'Chet Lag' a while back, and it went out of print and was nearly impossible to find. It's been reissued as 'Happy Hour'. If you don't tap your toes listening to this, you ain't got no toes. woo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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