Acoustic Guitar on Vinyl


Can anyone recommend some decent acoustic guitar on vinyl? it seems a little hard when doing search on the vinyl web stores. Much appreciated.

 

 

houstonreef

Pat Metheny Road To The Sun. Performers are the LA Guitar Quartet, Jason Vieaux, Pat Metheny. 

 

 

Not sure if it's still in print, but:

Alex DiGrassi, Slow Circle (from Windham Hill)

is the best acoustic guitar album I've heard in 60+ years of loving music intensely.

Olde School - any of the earlier Paul Simon, James Taylor, or Cat Stevens works - on "vinyl"...some of the cuts that did not get a lot of air time are great acoustic tracks.  This era...the go to for me would be Tommy Emannuel - does it all ...really cutting edge would be Michael Dawes....stream one of Tommy & Michael playing together is out of this world. 

I'll reiterate Julian Bream and Carlos Montoya for classical, plus add Narciso Yepes and Christopher Parkening to that list.

Don't forget about the country guys like Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, and Buck Owens.  I would even add Dan Tyminski of AKUS fame as a great acoustic guitarist.

I spent 2 years doing the same search and the answer turned out to Nils Lofgren Acoustic Live and Friday night in San Francisco 

jdjohn; Dan Tyminski is a good player but mostly a rhythm player.

His bandmate Ron Block is fantastic player. His tasteful fills and tone he

pulls from his old D-28 are something to behold. The band being relatively new,

little is available on vinyl. Occasionally, some of their releases are simultaneously out on vinyl but I’m unsure of quality as I haven’t bought any.

I’m surprised more haven’t brought up Doc Watson. He has a large body of work going back to to late 50’s. Much of it on vinyl. He is definitely one of the best acoustic guitar players in the traditional/bluegrass genre.

 

 

Recently bought Buddy Guy ‘Going back to Acoustic’ / Pure Pleasure Records 

that’s good if you’re into acoustic blues

Many of the Romeros (father or three sons) on Contemporary or Philips have outstanding sonics of Spanish classical music.  Roy du Nann and Bob Fine recordings generally do.

+1 for Barbosa-Lima/Isbin’s Rhapsody in Blue/West Side Story.

Christopher Parkening Plays Bach

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

California Guitar Trio

Brooks Robertson

Joe Robinson

Richard Smith

Buster Jones

Tommy Emmanuel

Antonio Forcione

John McLaughlin plays Bill Evans

 

Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics

Nels Cline & Julian Lage - Room

Jorma Kaukonen - Quah and Live at Sweetwater vol.1

+10 Friday Night in San Francisco (and soon to be released Saturday Night in San Francisco

More about the songs than virtuoso guitar, but all the Gillian Welch / David Rawlings albums on Acony Records are amazing with demo quality sound

Cheers,

Spencer

 

These are a few that seem to always be on heavy rotation for acoustic guitar on my system:

Doc & Merle Watson "Doc Watson & Son" & "Lonesome Road" - Bluegrass

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & various artists "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" - Bluegrass

Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" (find the MFSL) - Blues/Folk

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells "Goin' Back to Acoustic" - Blues

Eric Clapton "Unplugged" (MFSL) -Blues

Cat Stevens "Teaser & the Firecat" & "Tea for the Tillerman" - Pop

Acoustic Alchemy "Natural Elements" - New Age Jazz

Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds "Live at Luther College" - Rock/Alternative

Leo Kottke "6 & 12 String Guitar" - Folk

John Fahey "The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album" -Seasonal

All are still available on vinyl, with the Muddy Waters and the Eric Clapton recently getting the MFSL One-Step UltraDisc 45 rpm treatment. Those two are absolutely phenomenal records. The others are also great both musically and performance-wise. Enjoy the music! 

 

@sbank, the Friday night is out of stock but i just ordered the Saturday.

 

I would like to thank everyone who spent time to introduce me some new music.

It is not the Friday Night but Passion Grace&Fire album by McLaughlin/de Lucia/di Meola that is an acoustic guitar masterpiece. And they don't try to outrun each other here.

Unfortunately, it is a digital recording, but record still sounds better. Get a Japanese original, even better original Japanese promo. 

If you like Spanish guitar, in the flamenco style, Carlos Montoya. . .

and Goran Sollscher for classical guitar.