Can be classical, folks, spanish, whatever really. Fairly chilled but not cheesy easy listening.
Cheers.
🙂
juan martin, Picasso portraits
Grizzly Man soundtrack by Richard Thompson.
EDIT: not all that acoustic, but very mellow!
Used to be something called Acoustic Alchemy which was two bods with guitars, some of it was good.
Currently listening to Xuefei Yang's album '40 Degrees North'. There's some fairly standard but very nice classical Spanish and some interesting guitar pieces with a Chinese flavour. Not everyone's cup of tea but good for me 🙂
anything by juan martin. or if you want something more folky something by john renbourne or bert jansch
Pretty much anything by Andy McKee- try Africa or Drifting to begin with.
Ulli Boegershausen does some great acoustic covers- Kiss From a Rose is awesome!
+1 for Andy McKee - 'youtube' him . Well worth seeing live if you get chance
Steve Morse's most mellow album, High Tension Wires. A few non-acoustic bits to watch out for, particularly the ludicrous fretboard workout of Tumeni Notes which alternately makes me cry and want to give up playing or strive to be a better player. Typically I strive to be a better player and end up crying.
Thanks everyone - will check these out.
Forgot to add what sparked this thread was listening to some Davy Graham - def worth checking out.
iron and wine
andy mckee indeedy
check out Tommy Emmanuel while you're youtubing
I saw Nils Lofgren a couple of years ago ina little club, seemed to be playing an acoustic through all sorts of effects. Very, very good (if not a little fret****y)
More artists to throw in the hat...
Michael Hedges
Pierre Bensusan
Isaac Guillory
Chris
Steve Hackett: [i]Bay Of Kings[/i]. Lovely album, Hackett is a very distingtive guitarist, instantly recognisable from Gabriel-era Genesis.
[edit] [i]Momentum[/i] is very similar and followed a year or so after. There may be others as well, but he's quite prolific and I'm not sure what style other albums are.[/edit]
Andy McKee is exactly the kind of stuff I was after - nice one.
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Antonio Forcione. Starts slowly, gets much better. Amazing live.
John Williams - playing Lauro pieces....That wil be the classical covered for you.
Heitor Villa- Lobos?
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaozzXCFpI
How about a complete unknown? I work with this guy and his music is pretty amazing for amateur. He works really hard and has a CD of self compositions due out any day... http://www.adamjameswakeling.co.uk/music.html
Jose Gonzalez, he sings on a lot of them though but an unbelievably good guitarist
Iron and Wine are my favourite right now.
Bullet - Just took a punt on your recommendation - Gone for "Dark Times"
(I like occasional musical meanderings into unknowns)
Couldn't get the 'buy now' button to work in Firefox - Had to use IE ...Oh...the shame 😉
Thanks
Chris
Todd Baker, 😀
I also like tommy emmanuel for his technical brilliance,try "Angelina"
oystein sevag & lakki patey - cahuita
hauntingly beautiful... and if you enjoy THAT.. try running it back to back with
Slow Pulse feat. Cathy Battistessa - Riva
leo kottke. He's the man
SnS - Adam will be dead chuffed, he wants nothing more than people to like his music 🙂
vaseline machine gun!!
anything by pat methenay - particularly " a quiet night " or " crossing the heartland "
" nocturnes " by Rainer "
" live in europe " by Leo Kottke