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11-10-2013, 03:39 AM
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What acoustic guitar songs blew you away when you 1st heard?
Sorry, this is probably in the wrong forum
The Beatles, Blackbird Dire straits, Romeo & Juliet Fleetwood Mac, Never goin back again These are songs that blew me away on first hearing them, and are songs that I am determined to learn & perfect on acoustic guitar. So, what's your list? Thanks! Last edited by Prizen; 11-10-2013 at 04:35 AM. Reason: Wrong forum 
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11-10-2013, 05:05 AM
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I'm amazed by percussive stuff and utterly incapable of doing it myself yet:
-a favorite Don Ross: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFnqDy8VWQ -If you're impatient, go to minute 15 of this Preston Reed concert for an example of what I think is cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMMq4R_x98M -Vicki Genfan's Atomic Reshuffle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFDBs8TryM -Gareth Pearson doing Billie Jean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e64DJemlUec (I've seen him live twice, and he's terrific--if he comes to your town, see him) Martin Simpson makes me weep with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwK7kRibiI (audio only) Another one that draws emotion to the surface for me, Martin Taylor and Tommy Emmanuel doing The Nearness of You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHGzJnFong0 And while loads of people here hate him, I am still impressed by Tommy Emmanuel, never more than in Guitar Boogie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2eXRW6YtM (An argument for practicing your scales, too). I could go on, but those are some that wowed me when I first saw them. The only one I have a shot at technically playing, I think, is the Simpson, or my own version of the jazz ballad...but I wouldn't sound like that, either The difference between me and these guys is...well, to begin with, 20,000 hours of playing or more.
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11-11-2013, 04:02 PM
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11-11-2013, 04:13 PM
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Bron yr aur by Led Zeppelin
Canarios comp. Gaspar Sanz Whole Hearted Extreme Cello Song Nick Drake Minor Swing Django Reinhardt
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11-11-2013, 04:13 PM
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11-11-2013, 04:21 PM
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11-11-2013, 04:45 PM
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Can't remember the song, but Fred McDowell was playing it.
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11-11-2013, 05:57 PM
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Mmm, I remember finding a remaindered album by Josh White which had a great version of St. James' Infirmary which impressed me greatly.
"No Regrets" - by Tom Rush. A girlfriend convinced me to take her to the Cambridge Folk Fest in '67 or '68 to see Tom Rush - it was then that I first considered taking up guitar instead of playing drums (at which I was rather successful). It was on his album - The Circle Game. Big Bill Broonzy visited London and a friend recorded him - I was very impressed by the recording. The Robert Johnson album also made me think. Then I discovered bluegrass !
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11-11-2013, 07:34 PM
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Bruce Coburn's first album. OMG!!!
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11-11-2013, 08:09 PM
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Steve Howe's The Clap off The Yes Album.
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11-11-2013, 11:37 PM
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I know the term "acoustic" often gets used here to mean steel string acoustic, but classical guitars are acoustic instruments too. So....
I'll say Recuerdos de la Alhambra. Really blew me away when I first heard it. If I were to pick something on steel string, I think it might be Doug Young's arrangement and performance of Bring a Torch. Simply wonderful!
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11-12-2013, 04:52 AM
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Running From Home, by Donovan, the first time I heard alternating bass fingerstyle (early 1966). (I'd only been playing myself for one month at that time.)
That led me to Bert Jansch (who wrote it), and his version of Angie (better than Davy Graham's original) Cliff's Romp, by Cliff Aungier (1966) - an obscure UK blues-ragtime player (known to Jimmy Page); first time I heard ragtime guitar (live), definitely blew me away, and led me to people I'd never heard of before like Big Bill Broonzy and Blind Blake. I really wanted to play like that! Cliff's Romp was never available on record, but it sounded a lot like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1qtX7Mz5w (RIP Cliff...) Then John Martyn and Stefan Grossman, late 60s. Martyn inventive and modern, Grossman painstaking revivalist, educational. Then there was Django Reinhardt of course (first heard in the early 70s) - spoiled me for all other jazz guitarists. It was a long time before an acoustic guitarist impressed me as much as those guys, not until Kelly Joe Phelps and Shine Eyed Mister Zen (his technique wasn't astonishingly better, but it was beautifully fluid). Having stopped listening to Bert Jansch back in the late 60s, I was later amazed to hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J09ehzggVVo (how does he do that on ONE guitar??? Took me a while to work it out...) More recently, there's dozens of players, often using various tapping and percussive styles and open tunings, that are technically streets ahead of most of those 60s heroes (Jansch maybe excepted). I saw this young guy recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGPs7F3AyI
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11-12-2013, 08:26 PM
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