acoustic.
 

ahh, i still need to broaden my mind for this genre-i know some stuff but I need something more.

now i know that just the term 'acoustic' means a lot of stuff, but i mean just like anything that is solo acoustic, can be dark, happy whatever just as long as its as minimal as possible.


anyone care to suggest something?

Neil young live at Massey Hall.
Great stuff, just him a guitar, and he occasionaly plays a piano.

acoustic is not a genre. just instrumentation.

any and all delta blues from before the muddy waters era was acoustic, most country music before 1970 was acoustic and much afterwards. most jazz is and was acoustic. then you havethe netherworld of fucking folk nonsense.
acoustic as all hell, even booing their patron saint when he "dared" to play an electric set!
all bluegrass music is acoustic, well, ussually. flamenco music is acoustic. all classical music is acoustic.
organ music from the 1600's is acoustic.
gamelan music from Bali is acoustic, and rocks polyphonically.
and of course every pussy bitch ass fake asshole in the country who could not handle ten minutes of a nirvana live show, much less an entire show of their true insanity, LOVED the "unplugged" acoustic set. fuck I hate that.

Zanfir, master of the pan flut is acoustic music. most folk music from the world over, whetrher gypsy, peruvian andes, aboriginal etc, is acoustic.

Taku Sugimoto will fulfill the minimal bit. Possibly more minimal than you want though.

Fahey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm just talking shit of course. tons of great acoustic music out there.

but if what you want is a singer with a minimalist guitar accompaniment, I don;t know.

Was my first thought (also Jansch).

Anyone heard Joseph van Wissem's Stations of the Cross? I got that recently. Utterly gorgeous in a way that very few lute records are.

neil young

ditto annette krebs

better yet, check out Seymour "Cunthead" Wright

Not that I own a lot of lute records, but yes, lovely. I got to see him play most of those songs live earlier this year, fantastic fantasic fantastic.

seconded (thirded if you count my first post on the thread)

if you do not have any acoustic Grateful Dead, then you just are depriving yrself of good acoustic music, and still the most fun stuff to play on yr acoustic guitar. I got kicked out of an acoustic blues band for bringing to many dead covering cover songs to the stage, because they were to damned good compared to the other tunes this band had!





though, honestly, I can play that entire album in my sleep, but I do not own it, nor have I ever owned it, nor would i buy it. I think that Dead albums are terrible. however, live dead, that is an entirely different story:

I suggest something like this:





a live grateful dead acoustic set. the best would be 1968-1971, with Pigpen, without Pigpen, the acoustic set is not quite the same....

rip Ron McKernan

sir richard bishop
leo kottke

would also be tops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh0pJsyS9mQ

M. WARD! Amazing fingerpicker and vocalist, very Fahey-influenced.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pt7CuX7pbE

People like to diss this young man, but really, just listen to the bloody words and the conviction with which he sings them.

Bird Song acoustic live 1980

Heaven Help the Fool

ken mikami
kazuki tomokawa
derek bailey
johhny cash
howlin wolf
"blind" willie johnson
leadbelly

good shit right there

When I bought the Flight of the Conchords cd at Hot Topic, the dude behind the counter asked me if I liked "acoustic music". I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about, then I tried thinking about, then I said, "I listen to all kinds of weird shit."

Furthermore, isn't everything you hear, by definition, acoustic?

johnny cash definitely
howlin' wolf is my fav blues player of all time. but i think he was better electric.

blind willie and leadbelly are excellent as well.

howlin' wolf was definitely electric, hubert sumlin was his guitar player, always played a strat.

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suggested: a ton of current 93 is acoustic.