Passion, grace and fire
January 5, 2011 12:59 PM Subscribe
Feed me music! Fast paced acoustic guitar jams and anything related.
I'm not sure how to describe what I want. I'm on a guitar jam streak: acoustic, fast-paced and awesome.
Here's what I've found and want more of:
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Tamacun and Diablo Rojo
Trace Bundy: Dueling Ninjas
Al DiMeola : Passion, Grace & Fire
Feel free to reccommend anything mildly related. Ethnic is good too!
I'm not sure how to describe what I want. I'm on a guitar jam streak: acoustic, fast-paced and awesome.
Here's what I've found and want more of:
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Tamacun and Diablo Rojo
Trace Bundy: Dueling Ninjas
Al DiMeola : Passion, Grace & Fire
Feel free to reccommend anything mildly related. Ethnic is good too!
Leo Kottke.
posted by staggernation at 1:19 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by staggernation at 1:19 PM on January 5, 2011
Best answer: Rodrigo y Gabriela
She brings an entire percussion section to the duo using her hands and fingers on the body of her guitar.
posted by leafwoman at 1:21 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
She brings an entire percussion section to the duo using her hands and fingers on the body of her guitar.
posted by leafwoman at 1:21 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
... and so it seems you have found them (upon further reading.)
posted by leafwoman at 1:21 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by leafwoman at 1:21 PM on January 5, 2011
Rajamani. (His actual name is Oliver Rajamani, but he goes by his last name.) Album: Pakiam.
posted by John Cohen at 1:35 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by John Cohen at 1:35 PM on January 5, 2011
I don't know if it's exactly up your alley, but fast paced acoustic jam to me says bluegrass. There's lots in bluegrass music that isn't fast-paced and guitar-laden, but skip that over and you're left with some great jams.
Tony Rice & Norman Blake
Bryan Sutton + others
Chris Eldridge (& Josh Williams & Danny Knicely)
…are the first few names to come to mind. If you like any of that take the names in those videos and go crazy on google.
posted by kjell at 1:36 PM on January 5, 2011
Tony Rice & Norman Blake
Bryan Sutton + others
Chris Eldridge (& Josh Williams & Danny Knicely)
…are the first few names to come to mind. If you like any of that take the names in those videos and go crazy on google.
posted by kjell at 1:36 PM on January 5, 2011
Best answer: If you don't already have it, the two albums of Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia together are essential.
posted by Lifeson at 1:52 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Lifeson at 1:52 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Gipsy Kings?
Also: I know it's not guitar but if you're not averse to blurring the lines a bit I would be remiss if I didn't recommend just about anything by the jaw-droppingly amazing and versatile mandolin player Chris Thile, especially 'Not All Who Wander are Lost' and 'Into the Cauldron' (mandolin/mandola/mandocello duets with Mike Marshall).
posted by usonian at 1:59 PM on January 5, 2011
Also: I know it's not guitar but if you're not averse to blurring the lines a bit I would be remiss if I didn't recommend just about anything by the jaw-droppingly amazing and versatile mandolin player Chris Thile, especially 'Not All Who Wander are Lost' and 'Into the Cauldron' (mandolin/mandola/mandocello duets with Mike Marshall).
posted by usonian at 1:59 PM on January 5, 2011
For passion, grace and fire, I suggest Solstice by Ralph Towner.
posted by The Mouthchew at 2:03 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by The Mouthchew at 2:03 PM on January 5, 2011
John Fahey, the father of modern American acoustic folk.
posted by caminovereda at 2:23 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by caminovereda at 2:23 PM on January 5, 2011
Clive Carroll - Czardas
Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie
Isaac Guillory - Swinging Little Guitar Man (after around 50 seconds in)
Frank Vignola and Tommy Emmanuel - How High The Moon
Fretkillr - Acoustic Blues Jam in E With Flatpick
Daddy Stovepipe - Yoyo Blues
Igor Presnyakov - Thunderstruck
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Jerry's Breakdown
Hopefully at least a couple of those will be exactly the kind of thing you're looking for, a few are less closely related things that you might like.
posted by tomcooke at 2:54 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie
Isaac Guillory - Swinging Little Guitar Man (after around 50 seconds in)
Frank Vignola and Tommy Emmanuel - How High The Moon
Fretkillr - Acoustic Blues Jam in E With Flatpick
Daddy Stovepipe - Yoyo Blues
Igor Presnyakov - Thunderstruck
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Jerry's Breakdown
Hopefully at least a couple of those will be exactly the kind of thing you're looking for, a few are less closely related things that you might like.
posted by tomcooke at 2:54 PM on January 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Acoustic Alchemy.
Pentangle, and all its permutations.
Earl Klugh.
Josh White and his son, Josh White, Jr.
Doc Watson and his (deceased) son Merle.
Legendary jazz guitarist Joe Pass put out an acoustic album (Virtuoso #4) worth anyone's while. Might have the definitive solo instrumental version of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life, as its opening track.
Tuck Andress (electric hollowbody) (of the husband/wife duo Tuck and Patti) plays and teaches with an appreciation of electric sustain, and acoustic chord structure.
Montreux made some terrific acoustic jazz/fuzion music.
Grant Geissman has put out some nice music.
If you're aware of Al Di Meola, you may know of his frequent collaborator, Larry Coryell.
You can't ignore Kenny Burrell.
Or the late Herb Ellis.
A little outside what you've asked about (on either side of the "personal style" divisor) are Wes Montgomery and Stanley Jordan, but both those guys play like no one else, if often, electrically.
Whatever Chet Atkins could do on an electric guitar, he could do, and did, on an acoustic.
posted by paulsc at 3:18 PM on January 5, 2011
Pentangle, and all its permutations.
Earl Klugh.
Josh White and his son, Josh White, Jr.
Doc Watson and his (deceased) son Merle.
Legendary jazz guitarist Joe Pass put out an acoustic album (Virtuoso #4) worth anyone's while. Might have the definitive solo instrumental version of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life, as its opening track.
Tuck Andress (electric hollowbody) (of the husband/wife duo Tuck and Patti) plays and teaches with an appreciation of electric sustain, and acoustic chord structure.
Montreux made some terrific acoustic jazz/fuzion music.
Grant Geissman has put out some nice music.
If you're aware of Al Di Meola, you may know of his frequent collaborator, Larry Coryell.
You can't ignore Kenny Burrell.
Or the late Herb Ellis.
A little outside what you've asked about (on either side of the "personal style" divisor) are Wes Montgomery and Stanley Jordan, but both those guys play like no one else, if often, electrically.
Whatever Chet Atkins could do on an electric guitar, he could do, and did, on an acoustic.
posted by paulsc at 3:18 PM on January 5, 2011
Craig D'Andrea & Antoine Dufour - Canada Sad Duet.
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Lucky Thirteen
Andy McKee - Art of Motion
Gareth Pearson - Adrenaline Rush
Steve Cloutier - How High The Moon (he builds up a multilayered arrangement using looping)
Tommy Emmanuel and Loren Barrigar - Mystery Train
From Metafilter's own danb and friend, Bob-omb Battlefield.
posted by tomcooke at 4:33 PM on January 5, 2011
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Lucky Thirteen
Andy McKee - Art of Motion
Gareth Pearson - Adrenaline Rush
Steve Cloutier - How High The Moon (he builds up a multilayered arrangement using looping)
Tommy Emmanuel and Loren Barrigar - Mystery Train
From Metafilter's own danb and friend, Bob-omb Battlefield.
posted by tomcooke at 4:33 PM on January 5, 2011
Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia together
Jaw-dropping acoustic sixteenth-note runs, especlaillly Paco.
(I prefer Sandy Bull myself, but he wasn't in a big hurry. There's a joke here if you know the movie Colors).
posted by ovvl at 7:02 PM on January 5, 2011
Jaw-dropping acoustic sixteenth-note runs, especlaillly Paco.
(I prefer Sandy Bull myself, but he wasn't in a big hurry. There's a joke here if you know the movie Colors).
posted by ovvl at 7:02 PM on January 5, 2011
Seconding Jesse Cook. Also, if you're more acoustic-minded, Adrian Legg is phenomenal. Sheets of cascading finger-picking - - not to be missed.
posted by rpaxton at 7:05 PM on January 5, 2011
posted by rpaxton at 7:05 PM on January 5, 2011
I came to throw Chet Atkins and Kaki King into the mix, but I'll chuck you one of my home town boys: Bruce Mathiske, and these kids (they really do look young... ) I'm seeing tonight because they make me laugh: Citrus Jam.
posted by Trivia Newton John at 12:00 AM on January 6, 2011
posted by Trivia Newton John at 12:00 AM on January 6, 2011
Acoustic Mania. Anything from John McLaughlin's acoustic projects (eg his Shakti group). And as already mentioned, Django Reinhardt and his many followers, for example Jimmy Rosenberg and Frank Vignola.
posted by amestoy at 1:51 AM on January 6, 2011
posted by amestoy at 1:51 AM on January 6, 2011
I'd add Preston Reed to the list. He's a contemporary of Leo Kottke and an influence on Kaki King's style.
posted by umbú at 7:35 AM on January 6, 2011
posted by umbú at 7:35 AM on January 6, 2011
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