Yes, I’m thinking of Christmas already. My mom’s favorite music is by Ottmar Liebert.
Anyone else here a fan? Any recommendations? She also doesn’t like anything with vocals.
Check out Acoustic Alchemy.
Too bad about the no vocals - she’d love the Gipsy Kings.
Now - if she is interested in jazzier stuff, she should check out the Hot Club of France, featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grappelli on jazz violin. Totally smokin’, fun 1930’s instrumental jazz.
I would also strongly recommend Michael Hedges’Aerial Boundaries - listen to the sample for Hot Type and tell me that it isn’t just the coolest. All the tappy, innovative, guitar-as-percussive-instrument stuff that Kaki King does (check out her stuff too - but the earlier, instrumental albums), but with a lot more, I dunno, musicality to it…
Strunz & Farah
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
I second the Strunz and Farah.
Paco de Lucia
Jesse Cook.
Oscar Lopez.
Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I’ll download a couple of tracks by each artist, and make her a sampler.
Thanks for starting this thread. I really, really enjoy Ottmar Leibert. Ihave a favorite local guitarist http://www.williamhenryrussell.com/ , which I have his first CD. I didn’t realize they were of a religous bent, as those kinds of thing really don’t interest me. It’s good, clean, talented acoustic guitar work.
Check out a couple of tracks from the album “Elegant Gypsy” by Al Dimeola & Paco de Lucia (a 70s effort). Dimeola got a bit weird after that, but has done some recent stuff that’s pretty good. Leibert’s Spanish stylings are engaging, but for classical Spanish guitar, try Carlos Montoya or Andres Segovia. For living artists, try The Romeros, the “royal family of Spanish guitar”.
I’d also recommend Willie and Lobo, they and Liebert have worked with some of the same producers.
An interesting “if you like A you might like B” site:
http://www.music-map.com/ottmar+liebert.html
That is very cool! Thanks!
Second Jesse Cook and adding Ray Lynch.