Solo Guitar recomendations

...dozens.

What style(s) are you interested in?

jay

Colin,
Have just read your question about solo Guitar Albums as I'm listening to Paris Texas by Ry Cooder.
If your not familiar with his work give this a try.

It doesn't come much better than this.

Dave

Colin,

Try....

Michael Hedges, - Beyond Bounaries (and) Aerial Boundaries
Pierre Bensusan - Intuite

Both are technically excellent,and,imho,the above albums represent their best work.

Chris

Hmm. Ok, with solo guitar being the only criterion:

Adrian Legg - Guitar for Mortals
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries (another vote)
Stefan Grossman & John Renbourn - Under the Volcano (duets, so technically not solo guitar)
John Renbourn - The Black Balloon
Ledward Kaapana - Waltz of the Wind
Martin Taylor - MT in Concert or Kiss and Tell
Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals
Pierre Bensusan - Spices
Robbie Basho - Bashovia
David Doucet -1957
Joe Pass - What Is There to Say
El McMeen - Solo Guitar Serenade
Eric Tingstad - Urban Guitar

Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night

Ralph Towner - Solo Concert

Ralph Towner - Anthem

Ralph Towner - Ana

The following albums all feature a single musician who has overdubbed some instruments on some pieces. I don't know if that disqualifies them from the requested criteria, but they are excellent nonetheless:

Ralph Towner - Diary

John Abercrombie - Characters

Bill Frisell - Ghost Town

Anything by Julian Bream

cheers

Nigel

Not really an album but a wonderful "cut"

That's from Stevie Ray Vaughan - The sky is crying' album. The song called Little Wing is from Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray treats it in different "moods".
In a Blues mode, a psychedelic mode, etc.. It's unique.
On the same album, there is another wonderfull song called The sky is crying; not bad too.

Give me your comments ..

Steve Hackett Bay of Kings

regards

Richard S

Another vote for Hackett.

Add mine...

See my comments in King Crimson.

Joe Pass Virtuoso

Andres Segovia All Bach Program

Larry Coryell Dragon Gate

for more blues/folk based stuff I would suggest some labels
kicking mule records
rounder (etta baker, etc.)
acoustic disc (dave grisman/tony rice)
windham hill (alex degrassi)

Hi

Thank you very much for all your posts. What I am looking for is acoustic not electric. Something like the theme from the Dear Hunter.

Colin

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Originally posted by Colin Ackerman:
Thank you very much for all your posts. What I am looking for is acoustic not electric. Something like the theme from the Dear Hunter.

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All my suggestions above are acoustic guitar.

I can't remember what the theme from The Deer Hunter sounds like, but my hunch is that you'd be very pleased with Pat Metheny's One Quiet Night.

Hi Fred

Thank's for that. It's very hard to explane a style of music. I thought recalling one track would give a idear of what I am after.
Thats the great thing about music even with 175 CD album's and 400+ vinyl album's theres always something missing from my collection.

Colin

If it's acoustic you after then try starting with Michael Hedges.

Mike

Tommy Emmanuel - Only
Armik - Isla del sol /this is new flamenco/

Emil

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Originally posted by hockman:
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned John Mclaughlin's My Goals Beyond. For the most part solo, the album is the apotheosis of acoustic guitar playing.

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I didn't suggest it because, for better or worse, I took literally Colin's request for solo guitar only (except, of course, for the exceptions to that restriction which I chose myself ), and while My Goals Beyond is a beautiful album, only one side is solo; the other features an ensemble with Charlie Haden, Dave Liebman, Jerry Goodman, Badal Roy, Billy Cobham, and Airto Moreira.

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Originally posted by hockman:
While I like Metheny's One Quiet Night, I much prefer an earlier Metheny effort on ECM called something like New Chaquatta (spelling?). He also has a duo album with Jim Hall recently out on Telarc. Exquisite stuff.

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Yeah, the duo album with Jim Hall is great, as is his duo album with Charlie Haden, Beyond the Missouri Sky. Another beautiful Metheny album featuring mostly acoustic guitar, some solo, some with overdubs, is his soundtrack A Map Of the World.

And, yes, New Chautauqua is beautiful, although it has lots of overdubs (not that there's anything wrong with that). I should have included it in my "exceptions" list.

But I love equally both that album and One Quiet Night, two solitary portraits of the artist 25 years apart. The latter is his only strictly solo effort, and he uses a special baritone guitar made by Linda Manzer (as most of his acoustics are) tuned to a variant of Nashville tuning. So the album has a darker air to it than it would have had if he had used a standard guitar with standard tuning. Plus, his version of Ferry Cross The Mersey just kills me.

Hockman, can you articulate why you prefer the earlier to the later?

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Originally posted by hockman:
Sorry, but Michael Hedges and Ralph Towner tend to leave me cold.

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Why does Ralph's stuff leave you cold?

More to the point, what of Towner's work have you heard? Although I love it all, I suppose I could imagine certain things leaving someone cold, but definitely not others ... a tune like Green and Golden, for instance, is warmth personified. And the Oregon album Northwest Passage has some of Ralph's most beautiful, warm, and endearing music.

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Originally posted by fred simon:
his version of _Ferry Cross The Mersey_ just kills me.

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Fred,

Snap. They don't come much more haunting.

Steve Khan's EVIDENCE is another great listen

Al DiMiola's Tiramisu is also worth checking out

Michael Hedges Breakfast in the field is my personal favourite of his.

Plenty to be going on with.

Sean.

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I can't remember what the theme from The Deer Hunter sounds like, but my hunch is that you'd be very pleased with Pat Metheny's One Quiet Night.

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Its called Cavatina. I think John Williams (the classical guitarist, not the composer)played that version.

Ron
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Hockman, if you ever want to give Towner another shot, check out two more recent Oregon albums: Northwest Passage (as already mentioned) and Oregon In Moscow. As down to earth and full of feeling as he has ever been.

Ron

Well done, trying to remember the name of that track was doing my head in

Colin

Substring Bridge, by Mats Bergstrom. One of those discovered c/o Late JunctionSteve Reich's Electric Counterpoint on it, which is solo guitar playing alongside tape of the same solo guitar, IIRC it's 7 tracks of pre-prepeared lines, 1 track "live" with all the others, and 3 lines of bass. Or something like that. There's also a bonus remix track which is interesting.

The whole thing could be labelled contemporary classical guitar, or the like.

Pete.