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General Essential Listening

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2/3/2000 5:34 PM

Carl S. (aka PurpleP)

General Essential Listening

OK, so my listening material has stagnated. I, like most of us here I suspect, am always on the lookout for new guitarcentric recordings that DON'T suck. So, given the success of the RF/LC essential listening thread, I thought it educational to post at most 5 releases that we consider essential listening for guitarists....and maybe just great music overall. This is not a debate, but a means to broaden our palates. I will go first, in no particular order:

1) Scott Henderson "Dog Party" killer blues without cliche.
2) ZZ Top "Rio Grande Mud" plenty of exceedingly tasty work
3) Steve Morse "Coast to Coast" wide diversity, top drawer
4) Allman Bros "At the Fillmore" nuff said
5) Steve Vai "Alien Love Secrets" quite soulful

2/3/2000 5:49 PM
MKB	Well, I'll add one; "Secrets" by Allan Holdsworth. Especially the cut "Joshua". Another great Holdsworth album, more accesible, is Metal Fatigue. There are lots of accomplished players, Holdsworth sounds like he is from another planet.

2/4/2000 10:25 AM
GFR	Other "accessible" material featuring Allan Holdsworth Bundles - Soft Machine Two of a Kind - Bill Brufford Tony Williams Lifetime Enigmatic Ocean - Jean Luc Ponty Not so accessible: None Too Soon, with AH playing jazz tunes.

2/3/2000 6:46 PM
Randy	Here are some that have inspired me. Not really in the classic rock vein, but some very pretty electric guitar work. Luna - "Penthouse" Daniel Lanois - "For the Beauty of Winona" Yo La Tengo - "Electropura" Grant Lee Buffalo "Fuzzy" and "Mighty Joe Moon"

2/3/2000 7:47 PM

5 "modern" essentials:
"Language of the Soul" - Ronnie Earl
"Country Soul Guitar" - Duke Levine
"Just Lookin' For a Hit" - Dwight Yoakum (Pete Anderson)
"Duke's Blues" - Duke Robillard
"Greatest Hits" - Alan Jackson (Brent Mason)

5 "classic" essentials:
Freddie King's instrumentals on Federal
"Truckin' with Albert Collins"
"Stratospheric Boogie" - Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant
"Are You Experienced?" - Jimi Hendrix
"Wes Montgomery Trio" (the first one on Riverside)

2/5/2000 7:53 AM
Doug R.	Does anyone know offhand the name of the release (i believe it was Tony Williams'(drummer)album that had Holdsworth guesting on guitar?

2/7/2000 10:05 AM
GFR	AH was the guitar player on Tony Williams' band (Lifetime). He recorded two albums with them. The two albums were released as a single CD. Look for Tony Williams' Lifetime.

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