I've been listening to a lot of acoustic guitar music lately, but there are so many beautiful songs out there, maybe we can share some of our favourites.
Here are some of mine.
Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road (This one is so beautiful, i've been trying to play it myself with a tablature i found on the net, but found it really hard. check this artist out live if you can, she is so good and sweet on stage.) Joe Purdy - Wash Away (one of my all time favourite songs) The Kooks - Seaside
Definitely check out The Magic Numbers' version on Destiny's Child's Crazy in Love too, i saw them perform this live in Paradiso, Amsterdam and i was so happy when i finally found this song on the net.
I've been into Andy McKee lately, a really talented fingerstyle guitarist, also incorporates a harp-guitar - beautiful stuff. Also check out Antoine Dufour - Another fingerstyle guitarist, extremely melodic and funky - highly recommended.
I really like your guitar play again Marius, but the singer somehow is a little distracting, not that she's not good or something, but maybe her voice should blend a little more with the music.
The acoustic versions are significantly different than what you would expect from a typical "Dave" song, which is for the most part a good thing I think.
He's very popular, but most of his mellow acoustic stuff goes unnoticed...
Some time ago, over the course of a few weeks, in a dark room, alone, I got to know a dude with a geetar who calls himself Bobby.
Bob Dylan has a record that he recorded in 1974, over the course of two couple-day sessions with musicians he'd never played with/heard of, and who've mostly never been heard from since.
Blood on the Tracks is a collection of ten songs. Ten songs that hit you right in the face, wam-pow.
Almost ten years removed from Blonde on Blonde, these things are weirdly surreal in a way that they hadn't been since the motorcycle crash; but situated, discernable, visceral, real. Dylan in '74 was a guy who had been as high as a public artist could go, a guy on the tail end of a crumbling marriage, a guy that had gotten over his own image to an extent, and a guy that people had seemingly forgotten was a very talented songwriter.
The production work, the sound of the recording itself; it's got something to it that seems spot on. Sparse but still resonate. Bobby's still got his voice at this point, at times it's even uncharacteristly soft and open. You can tell these songs, they mean something to him. Bob has something to say and he, in 1974, still has all the tools to do it with real force.
I listened to Blood on the Tracks while typing this, it is probably my favorite record by my favorite artist, though perhaps not my favorite record. It stands out, to me, in my mind, when I think of music. When I think of a dude with a geetar.
Anything by Andres Segovia (though he is more classic than just acoustic) his stuff really made me appreciate the old school classical guitar stuff and flamenco.
