Music: Acoustic Music

[Say Hey Kid]

What acoustic music do you like?

1. Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
2. REM - Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
3. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
4. Neil Young - Unplugged - This legend ain't singin for Pepsi, he ain't singin for Coke
5. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
6. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam
7. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' "
8. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter: Unledded
9. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence - "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"
10. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

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[kihei]

First albums that came to mind, not counting classical--no particular order after the top five:

Kind of Blue--Miles Davis
Bill Evans with Symphony Orchestra--Bill Evans
The Songs of Leonard Cohen--Leonard Cohen
No Quarter--Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
Live at Massey Hall, 1971--Neil Young
Sertao e Favelas--Zelia Barbosa
John McLaughlin--Time Remembered
O-- Damien Rice
My Favourite Things--John Coltrane
Rio Nocturne--Paulo Moura
"The Man with the Golden Arm"--soundtrack

HM: Time (The Revelator), Gillian Welch; Focus, Stan Getz; Live, Paul Desmond; Songs, Brad Mehldau; MTV Unplugged in NYC, Nirvana; Gordon!, Gordon Lightfoot; The Billie Holiday Story, Billie Holiday

 

[Shareefruck]

If all non-fusion Jazz is considered acoustic, then that's pretty much my entire list. I generally am not the biggest fan of folk and blues.

1. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
2. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
3. Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler
4. The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
5. Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis Quintet
6. Live at the It Club by Thelonious Monk
7. Point of Departure by Andrew Hill
8. The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner
9. Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar
10. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by Bill Evans Trio
11. Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
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12. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
13. Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans Trio
14. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
15. Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
16. Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
17. Moanin' by Art Blakey
18. John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
19. King of the Delta Blues by Robert Johnson
20. Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie

 

[Aladyyn]

Omnia - Crone of War
Omnia - Paganfolk
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Rego Rejtem
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Mohalepte
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Of Dreams Forgotten And Fables Untold

If anyone has any suggestions for artist similar to these 2 above I'm all ears. Because I always have trouble finding something with a similar vibe and i'm almost convinced there is actually nothing like them.

Ordo Funebris - Cantar A La Morte - Fabula Triste
Narsilion - Return To The Silver Forest
Toh Kay - The Hand That Thieves
Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (mostly acoustic i guess...)
Damh the Bard - Spirit of Albion

I think these should all fit the bill mostly. It's all folk-y stuff.

 

[Teemu]

1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
2. Damien Rice - O
3. Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
4. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
5. Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
6. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
7. Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
8. Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of Life
9. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
10. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

 

[Say Hey Kid]

What acoustic music do you like?

 

[beowulf]

 

[Jack Straw]

 

[WeThreeKings]

Gregory. Alan. Isakov.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

What is amazing about youtube is that if you are into acoustic music you can just search a song on there and there's a good chance that the artist did an acoustic version for a radio station or some sort of live event.

 

[peate]

Guitar is #1 for me.

 

[Lost Horizons]

 

[Lost Horizons]

best part starts at 7:37 through the end. Turn it up!

 

[Say Hey Kid]

I'm a big fan of Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

 

[Mescaleroman]

 

[Mescaleroman]

 

[davemess]

A master at work....



Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Live 2012 Americana Music Awards)

 

[Sentinel]

I like Pete Seeger and Johnny Cash.

Vladimir Vysotsky above all, obviously. Plus, see my own Vysotsky in English project (www.vvinenglish.com)

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Someone above mentioned the Neil Young Live at Massey Hall in 1971. It’s a great listen to an artist on the verge of becoming a superstar. After he released After the Gold Rush but before Harvest came out and he’s still working on some of the songs on that album.
The Eric Clapton unplugged one is great as well.

 

[NyQuil]

Leo Kottke:

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

 

[Ouroboros]

 

[Perennial]

There may be no one better with an acoustic guitar than this man here...

 

[Perennial]

Another all-time great is Don Ross...

 

[Roo Returns]

Well done I was coming here to post Rodrigo Y Gabriella!