Oh, yeah, that reminds me -- Leo Kottke.

But, yeah, Hedges is amazing. Had the fortune of seeing him live once -- simply amazing.

This guy has 3+ discs issued by Delos and they are all simply
phenomenal. He plays classical on an 8 (yes 8) string guitar.
Check him out.

And if you can find it, look for one with Chet Atkins and Merle
Travis entitled The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show. Merle & Chet!
The Best!

Enjoy

Mike

Hedges. Ragamuffin is awesome! :thumbs up: I love the tone of After The Gold Rush, it would be killer with another guitar thrown in on a higher key slightly off beat.

stu - I didn't like that album very much. The first track was too complicated, and the other three just didn't sound right. I found it boring as well.

AR - Keggys stuff was neat, but freaking weird! I like Jam In the Pocket from Acoustic Sketches.
Chet sounds like blues!

gloco - Guitarisma 2 was very relaxing album. Particularly Thru the Trees/Cloudless and Sky Letters from Vienna. =)

Mac - I couldn't find any of that stuff.

BTW, I like 6 string acoustic guitar with unconventional tuning.

check out the pickin' on southern rock post I made a while back... it's great.

This is a wonderful duo from Holland playing the music of John McLaughlin. It is a very beautiful recording. It's great to hear some of the McLaughlin/Mahavishnu tunes done up for two acoustic guitars.

Audio&Me: I am sorry you found the album complicated and boring. I really like the complex melodies, and I think the long tracks with slowly developing variations are very involving. Perhaps my background in modern classical music and music theory makes me biased towards it... It is one of my favorites, and I am a acoustic guitar fan. I think Jim O'Rourke is a love him or hate him type of musician...at least that holds true for most of his other albums. Sorry that it did not work...
Stu

If you have an SACD player, get "Friday Night in San Fransisco", McLaughlin, DiMiola, DeLucia. Get it on LP or CD if you don't have SACD.

A good Leo Kottke album to start with is his first "Six and Twelve String Guitar". Still a classic.

Any of John Renbourne's solo albums feature superb acoustic guitar.

Sorry guys, I didn't like Mclaughlins music.

Beilin - come again?

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*Kazuhito Yama****a - Vivaldi on RCA
- This CD is out of print, but some of his newer stuff is worth listening to.

*Eliot Fisk - Eliot Fisk: Vivaldi Concerti
http://www.eliotfisk.com/record.html
- Classical Guitar. Most of his recordings are available at Music Heritage Society

*Juilain Bream - Classic Guitar,RCA,'79,LSC-3070
-I beleive this is the CD version: Julian Bream Edition, Vol.10: Classic Guitar,BMG,'93,09026-61593-2
-Bach and his contemoraries

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What do you expect from a 9-fingered guitarist? What is interesting about his stuff is that while you listen to one album and sound follows a theme, the next album is seems to jump out at you from nowhere. Do yourself a favor and take samples from different albums before you decide if you like him (and don't look for his stuff on ebay, because it usually sells for more than it does from his web-site or in the store).

He produces a lot of his own stuff and puts out about 2 CDs a year - sometimes 3. Thankfully, he lets a lot of stuff out that big lable marketers wouldn't publish, so you get to hear some rough stuff thats real and not just the super polished stuff.

If 'smooth' is the word you are looking for try his Wind and the Wheat and Lights of Madrid (LoM is a Spanish/Classical sound)

John Fahey, "Of Rivers & Religion" and "After the Ball."

And you could try his classic "Death Chants, etc." Get the newer one with the two sessions of the same songs.

I just looked through all the recommendations and decided to put my dsl line to work: i've downloaded over 400 megs of songs based on these recommendations, nearly 100 tracks! I''ll be back in a few months

Maybe I missed it, but did no one mention Laurendo Almeida!?!

Especially check out the audiophile quality duet album with Sammy Davis Jr. reissued by DCC. Great depth and sensitivity - not the show-bizzy stuff you might be expecting.

I also like Fisk's recording of the 24 Pagannini Caprices. Creative transcriptions, very good sound.

Larry Coryell, Led Zeppelin (Babe I'm Gonna Leave You).

Anyone familiar with Badi Assad?

Another DiMeola, McLaughlin and DeLucia effort - Friday Night In San Francisco. Great stuff!

Now if considering classical guitar, now I can say something finally.

Andres Segovia is considered father of modern classical guitar. Forget about how other may or may not like his intepretation in a lot of things. His recording is generally good but I like segovia collection Volume 1 (1927-1939 Recordings). Very good for beginner. I think it is enough cover who is Segovia. Good for introduction to what really is classical guitar.

Julian Breams (English gentlemen) One of the best. His interpretation is more like Segovia, expressive. Tons of his CDs available. I think all are very good. But he is quite traditionalist...

John Williams Another best. His technique is perfect. Though some feel his approach is too mechanical. I think his best CDs are

"The Guitarist", "Mantis and the Moon", "Sevile Concert" ... Quite approachable for non-guitarist.

These top 3 are more or less considering greatest by most people. There are several more guitarist that are close to those 3 .. technically and musically. However, I think none right now have reach that wide accepted fame like these 3.

These are name that guaranteed that he/she is a very good guitarist. However, lot of them play several style which may or maynot suite everyone here.

BTW, Concerter de Aranjuez ??? is the most famous concerto for guitar out of guitar world. There are probably thousand version recorded. Adagio movement is the most famous one that several jazz musician like to play with. At least Miles did it in Sketches of Spain. Though there are several other as good (my opinion) as this concerto.

Okay.. here list of guitarist and some CD that I think non-guitarist may like it.

Sharon Isbin ... her Grammy awarded "Dream of the world"

Manuel Baruecco .... Steel & Nylon ?? this is great for non guitarist... he did duet with all kind of guitarist (of course all kind of guitar even electric rock type thing)

Jason Vieaux Laurate Series ... combination of more modern (traditional folky type ... ie. tango etc not.... schoenberg modern) Easily approachable for non-guitarist ..

When I say non-guitarist .. I also mean non-classical guitarist.

There are tons more good classical guitarist ... but not so many that do more or less crossover type things which I try to list here. There are also steel string which I didn't talk about.. and several nylon string jazz guitarist that certainly.. very talented and... produce really good CD.

Acoustic guitar.. is really a big big world. At least... it can be nylon or steel string... style ??? Hawaii, Jazz, Classical, New age ...

I can go on and on... but hey... it is the only thing I can probably write down here.