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Essential Acoustic Albums.


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Anything by John Fahey, Don Ross, Iron & Wine, Leo Kottke, Laurence Juber and Tommy Emmanuel.

 

Ray Lamontagne "Trouble", Damian Rice "O" and Ryan Adams "The Suicide Handbook" are cool singer-songwriter acoustic CD's.

 

John Mayer's live acoustic CD, "The Village Sessions", is very cool. Love him or hate him, he is equally talented on acoustic and electric guitar.

 

Eric Clapton, Alice and Chains and the Nirvana Unlugged CD's will always be favorites of mine.

 

The Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" is a double CD. One disk is electric, the other disk is acoustic. It's really cool if you dig Dave Grohl's songwriting (I'm a big Foo Fighter fan).

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The Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" is a double CD. One disk is electric, the other disk is acoustic. It's really cool if you dig Dave Grohl's songwriting (I'm a big Foo Fighter fan).

 

 

Great CD. I haven't had the chance to watch all of the DVD yet, but the little I've seen is really good. Is Pat Smear back with them? I know he plays on the acoustic album and I've seen him pop up in a few Hagstrom ads.

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Well, we need some more rock music on this........old & new. I will mention albums that are primarily acoustic driven. Softer side of rock. Don't go nuts on me if an electric guitar shows up for a few seconds or on a particular song from the album:

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a Darkness
Bon Iver -For Emma. Forever Ago
Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease down the Road
The Handsome Family -Through The Trees
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Nick Drake -Bryter Layter
Neil Young - Harvest
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master & Everyone
Belle & Sebastian - If you are Feeling Sinister
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Simon & Garfunkel - Complete Collection
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all Home
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap

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Did this thread actually go 4 pages without a single mention of Chris Whitley or Kelly Joe Phelps?

 

Yes, Yes Indeed !

I also find that incredible.

What is even more unbelievable is that there's not one mention of Heinrich Schnerkfarbell - the famous Lituanian guitarist and contortionist.

Yes, Yes indeed !

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Tim Buckley- Dream Letter: Live in London
Gillian Welch- Soul Journey
Uncle Earl- Waterloo, Tennessee
Nick Drake- Bryter Layter
Iron & Wine- The Creek Drank the Cradle
Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
Harry Chapin- Greatest Stories Live
Jackson Browne- Solo Acoustic Vol. 1
Leonard Cohen- Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen- Songs from a Room
Leonard Cohen- New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Paul Brady- The Liberty Tapes
Vashti Bunyan- Diamond Day
Bert Jansch- Bert Jansch
Jackson C. Frank- Blues Run the Game
Pentangle- Basket of Light
Townes Van Zandt- The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt- Our Mother the Mountain
Kate Rusby- all of her albums are equally amazing
Donovan- Catch the Wind

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No doubt mentioned elsewhere in this thread:

Beyond Nature by Phil Keaggy

Here's some:



Oh and in case you're wondering, yes, he is MISSING HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER (childhood accident). Incredible. I love this music so much, my baby daughter went to sleep by it for the first 3-4 years of her life (she's 17 now :) )
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Looking through my collection I spotted a few that are pretty good and may have been overlooked:

Chet Atkins & Tommy Emmanuel--The Day the Fingerpickers Took Over the World
Dion--(much acoustic) Bronx in Blue
Bill Stains--Journey Home
Brooks Williams--Little Lion
Rod Macdonald--A Tale of Two Americas
Joe Crookston--Able Baker Charlie and Dog
Geoff Muldaur--Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Ernie Hawkins--Rags and Bones
Jay Smar--Acoustic Buffet
Pete Seeger--American Industrial Ballads
Bruce Spingsteen--The Seeger Sessions
Paul Geremia--The Devil's Music
Roy Book Binder--Singer Songwriter Bluesman

Wayne

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Looking through my collection I spotted a few that are pretty good and may have been overlooked:


Chet Atkins & Tommy Emmanuel--The Day the Fingerpickers Took Over the World

Dion--(much acoustic) Bronx in Blue

Bill Stains--Journey Home

Brooks Williams--Little Lion

Rod Macdonald--A Tale of Two Americas

Joe Crookston--Able Baker Charlie and Dog

Geoff Muldaur--Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

Ernie Hawkins--Rags and Bones

Jay Smar--Acoustic Buffet

Pete Seeger--American Industrial Ballads

Bruce Spingsteen--The Seeger Sessions

Paul Geremia--The Devil's Music

Roy Book Binder--Singer Songwriter Bluesman


Wayne



I'd also add Pete's Concert at Carnegie Hall and If I had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle.

You can't go wrong with Pete Seeger. :thu:

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