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Kind of a spin-off the 3 favorite live albums thread: I'd have to go with (in no particular order): Neil Young "Unplugged" Warren Zevon "Learning to Flintch" Plant & Page "No Quarter: Unledded" (I know it's not totally acoustic) I still listen to all 3 of those albums with some regularity.
Excellent choices. Yeah, once I started really thinking about it: Alice in Chains Unplugged, Bob Dylan Unplugged, Nirvana Unplugged, Widespread Panic "Uber Cobra", & Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, & Paco DeLucia "One Night in San Francisco" are pretty good acoustic albums too.
Post by lizardking0729 on Apr 2, 2007 19:46:09 GMT -5
1.Neil Young - Harvest(Great album for anytime, Neil Young at his best...) 2.Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (any Nick Drake album could be put here really but this one has personal hold for me, the man never made a bad album in his short career) 3.Nirvana - Unplugged (Really shows Kurt Cobain at his most relaxed -even if he was freaked out-, I actually have the taping of this too, and I love it)
Some other good ones are: Uncle Earl "She Waits for Night" Ray LaMontagne "Live from Bonnaroo 2005" EP Hank Williams III "Lovesick Broke & Driftin' " Jonas Hellborg/ Shawn Lane "Zenhouse" The Ventures "Acoustic Rock" Eric Clapton "Unplugged" (yeah, I know it's been hyped to death, but it's still pretty good) Radiators "10/27/05 Bunker's Minneapolis, MN" Ani DiFranco "Living in Clip" Jethro Tull "A Little Light Music" Heart "The Road Home" Steely Dan "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz" (not really acoustic but definitely stripped-back) The Bridge Concerts, Vol. 1 (especially Ministry's cool cover of "Friend of the Devil") Pretenders "Isle of View" Lou Reed "Perfect Night" The Kinks "Down to the Bone" Prince "The Truth" Paul McCartney "Unplugged" Big Jack Johnson & Kim Wilson "The Barbeque Sessions" Sevendust "Southside Doublewide" Lynyrd Skynyrd "Endangered Species" Buddy Guy & Junior Wells "Acoustic & Alone" California Guitar Trio "Out West" MMW "Tonic" Hot Tuna "Acoustic" Los Lobos "Vivo & Acustico" EP J. Mascis "Martin & Me" Carole King "The Living Room Tour" Rickie Lee Jones "Naked Songs" Grateful Dead "Reckoning" Jazz Mandolin Project "Tour de Flux" Greg Kihn "Mutiny" Tesla "Five Man Acoustical Band" The Posies "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In" Nine Inch Nails "CRC Sessions" Jackson Browne "Solo Acoustic" John Scofield "Quiet" Leon Russell "Signature Songs" Lily Afshar "A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, & Thou" Ornette Coleman "Live at the Town Hall" Rolling Stones "Stripped" Charlie Haden & Egberto Gismonti "In Montreal" R.L. Burnside "Acoustic Stories" Van Morrison & the Chieftains "Irish Heartbeat" Alvin Youngblood Hart "Down in the Alley" Yonder Mountain String Band "Mountain Tracks, Vol.2" The Church "El Momento Descuidado" X "Unclogged" Taylor Grocery Band "Taylor Grocery Band" Warren Haynes "Live at Bonnaroo" Robben Ford & the Blue Line "Authorized Bootleg" Leadbelly "Greatest Hits" Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane "Live at Carnegie Hall" Luther Allison "Hand Me Down My Moonshine" Michael Hedges "Live" Robert Johnson "Complete Collection" The Pixies "Live at Newport" Billy Idol "VH-1 Storytellers"
Post by steveternal on Apr 19, 2007 12:24:53 GMT -5
Not sure what constitutes an "acoustic" album-- is it a type of live album, or any album that just uses acoustic instruments, or an album centered around the acoustic guitar?
I kinda feel the first is too narrow and the second too broad, so I'll assume the 3rd (looks like most people did as well). Here would be my picks, mostly off the top of my head:
1. Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - A Meeting by the River 2. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers 3. Paul Simon - Paul Simon (admittedly a stretch)
Leo Kottke gets the lifetime achievement award, too.
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution Collective Soul - From the Ground Up Rodrigo y Gabriela
Also, Skin and Bones by Foo Fighters is good. And if DVDs counted, I would replace From the Ground Up with the Music In High Places Collective Soul Live In Morroco DVD soundtrack.....absolutely incredible!! If you like acoustic music and exotic locations - check out this DVD. One of the best of it's genre I have seen.
i'm going where the sun keeps shining, thru' the pouring rain, going where the weather suits my clothes. backing off of the north east wind, sailing on summer breeze, and skipping over the ocean like a stone.
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan Neil Young - Chrome Dreams (an unreleased follow-up to Zuma -- includes acoustic takes of "Powderfinger", "Captain Kennedy", "Too Far Gone", "Give Me Strength", "Hold Back The Tears", and many more unreleased Neil gems. These tracks are simply breathtaking, Neil would never be so personal again after this record. It's suggested in "Shakey: Neil Young's Biography", that he didn't release this record because the songs were just TOO personal -- most were inspired by his failed relationship with Carrie Snodgress. This is debatable, but I believe some of Neil's best work can be found on this one bootleg album.)
