The best acoustic guitar recordings??

Lots of good ideas here, but if your taste runs to pop and/or rock music, I might add:

Richard Thompson is my favorite acoustic guitar player in the pop/rock sphere, but most of his best records mix acoustic and electric guitar tracks. Beeswing and Vinvent Black Lightning are probably his best known acoustic tracks, but there are many, many more. The box set "Watching The Dark" is a treasure trove and much of it is nicely recorded.

Some of the Dick's Picks live Greatful Dead recordings feature wonderful playing and certainly have their following.

Lindsay Buckingham's last record was mostly acoustic and certainly worth hearing. Marshall Crenshaw's "Greatest Hits-Live Acoustic" is a wonderful record and "Neck and Neck" by Mark Knopler/Chet Atkins is great, too. Both David Lindley and Los Lobos have put out some wonderful acoustic guitar-centric recordings, but again, none of these are "pure" acoustic solo as oft cited above.

Good Luck

A few more good ones, following up on some of the suggestions above:

Doc and Merle Watson - Sitin' Here Pickin' The Blues. It's a compilation that includes Chazzro's suggestion plus additional material. Just great, great stuff, recorded nicely.

John Renbourne and Bert Jansch - Bert and John (or just about any of the Pentangle Cds/compilations)

I tend to agree with Nil re: Renbourne. Bert Jansch got most of the pub because Clapton and Page always name checked him, but I'll take Renbourne. Not that Bert is chopped liver....

also;

Kaki King - Until We Felt Red

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer

Steven Stills - Just Roll Tape. A mixed bag on SQ, but this is Stills in his prime on acoustic guitar and Dobro.

If your taste runs to classical, anything by Sharon Isbin is worth owning.

These are gernerally good to very good recordings of IMHO terrific acoustic guitar performances.

Marty

This one features solid (if unremarkable) SQ, but insane playing:

Tommy Emmanuel "Little By Little"

For a taste, click here ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk

Marty

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt "Meeting by the River" is very interesting music by 2 great players. It is beautifully recorded, too. Cooder plays guitar, but Bhatt plays a variety of acoustic stringed instruments from India - so it is just a little OT. IMHO, it's well worth checking out and in the spirit of the OP.

Marty