re: post by kleiman421. "art for the ear" is actually a tag line used by burmester to describe its products. the cd to which you are likely referring is vorfurings-cd II (there's an umlaut over the u). there is also a "volume" 3 that is likewise stunning. (never seen vol.1) i have access to a very limited supply of both discs, tho they're expensive, just like the beautiful burmester products for which they were produced. if you are interested, email me and i'll give you the prices.
Some reference recordings sound quite nice as do most Chesky. I think Chesky has the more natural sound, while reference, which is recorded on Spectral gear, that the engineer Keith O. Johnson also designed, sounds very neutral
Some good suggestions here. A few more: Lucinda Williams(Car Wheels On A Gravel Road), Martin Sexton(The American), Sonny Rollins(Soundtrack from the movie, "Alfie"), and Patricia Barber(Cafe Blue).
You might want to try "Songs of a Circling Spirit" by Tom Cochrane. He was the lead singer from Red Rider, the group that did the Neruda LP back in the 80's. He does some of Neruda and some newer stuff on this CD. He and three or four other musicians went into a concert hall and recorded this as an acoustic session (no audience), so you get to hear quite a bit that would normally be "filtered out" of a studio recording (read that as sterile) or obscured if an audience was present.
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