Albums with best sounding acoustic guitars???

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Uncle Tupelo's March 16-20, 1992. The whole thing is acoustic and sounds great but if you're looking for individual songs, try Moonshiner.
 
- Anything by Bernard Butler / early Suede / McAlmont and Butler
- The O Brother Where Are Thou soundtrack is indeed a beauty!
- Ben Harper is good too
- Some of Dave Matthews' stuff

I'm always disappointed by the sound quality of my Doyle Dykes CDs!
 
WinstonCowboy said:
Thanks guys...keep'em coming...but just to clarify...I am not looking for your picks for best performance on an acoustic, but rather for the best quality of recording.

I am trying to gather a collection of songs I can use as references for when I record some stuff.


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An acoustic album with excellent production is Bruce Cockburns "Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws" (1979) It's the one with "Wonderering where the lions are." The instruments, not the least of which is the acoustic guitar, just jump out of the speakers.

The performance & songwriting are on a par with the excellent production, too.
 
joni
and is there anyway getting any of these vintage sounds in this time
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned James Taylor. I am always impressed with the production of all the tracks on the greatest hits album.
 
Let me throw these in as possibilitys: A guy who called himself "Lobo" from (probably) the early 70's. He had a hit ("Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", not my favorite) and two other songs (all heavy with acoustic guitar) I liked: "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend", "Big Red Kite"...I just thought of a couple of other songs from that era: "Wildfire" (can't think of the singer, Wildfire was the name of a horse) and "Shannon" by a singer whose last name is Gross.
 
I just purchased Alison Krauss's (and Union Station) New Favorite. Some great playing and sounding stuff! Great Dobro work as well.
 
If you get a chance, pick up anything from Ralph McTell. He's an old(circa late 1970s) English folkie who has the clearest sounding guitars which he accentuates with some clever fingerpicking stuff.
 
Ralph McTell is great, especially if you can make the effort to get beyond just Streets of London.
 
Ralph McTell wrote "From Clare to Here"? right? I love Nanci Griffith's version of tha on her Other Voices, Other Rooms album. I used to do FCTH in my solo gigs, I might have to resurect that one. I never heard the original though...
 
I don't know if a nylon string played with a pick applies in the "accoustic" category but if it does then Strunz and Farah's - Primal Magic would be my choice. I've heard a few things by Jake E Lee played on acoustic gtrs that were awesome too. Too bad I can't remember the name of that album.

Carlos
 
"Birthday Boys" and "Radon Balloon" by Oysterhead.

Beck's "Sea Change"

Syd Barrett's "The Peel Sessions"
 
i think Jack Johnson has a pretty cool guitar sound on some of his songs like "taylor". it has a non-bright (dark?) sound, almost woody as if the strings havn't been changed in a while. I really like the sound though, very hard to reproduce using elixer strings as they are very bright.
 
For brand new stuff, listen to Vince Gill's "Next Big Thing" CD, especially the tracks "Whippoorwill River" and "This Old Guitar And Me".
 
I second that emotion!

fucanay said:
Just about anything by Elliott Smith.

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i totally agree. There's also a Christian band named Smalltown Poets thats really great sounding with their acoustic stuff.
 
minofifa said:
it has a non-bright (dark?) sound, almost woody as if the strings havn't been changed in a while.
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Yes, well that might be the Taylor 'laquer that resonation right out' sound :cool:
 
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