# If my mom likes Ottmar Liebert, she will also like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165 "2009-10-09T05:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/1 "2009-10-09T05:26:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/2 "2009-10-09T13:29:00Z")
Check out [Acoustic Alchemy](http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Acoustic-Alchemy/dp/B00006F1IJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1255094729&sr=1-1). 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](http://www.amazon.com/Aerial-Boundaries-Michael-Hedges/dp/B000000NFW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1255094806&sr=1-1) - 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… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/3 "2009-10-09T13:52:43Z")
Strunz & Farah ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/4 "2009-10-09T16:55:46Z")
Rodrigo Y Gabriela ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/5 "2009-10-09T22:09:02Z")
I second the Strunz and Farah. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/6 "2009-10-09T22:20:45Z")
Paco de Lucia ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/7 "2009-10-10T02:13:49Z")
Jesse Cook. Oscar Lopez. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/8 "2009-10-11T09:04:39Z")
Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I’ll download a couple of tracks by each artist, and make her a sampler. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/9 "2009-10-11T12:45:35Z")
Thanks for starting this thread. I really, really enjoy Ottmar Leibert. Ihave a favorite local guitarist [http://www.williamhenryrussell.com/](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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/10 "2009-10-11T14:27:20Z")
> [@Postariti](#): > > Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I’ll download a couple of tracks by each artist, and make her a sampler. 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”. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/11 "2009-10-11T19:14:32Z")
I’d also recommend [Willie and Lobo](http://www.willieandlobo.com/), they and Liebert have worked with some of the same producers. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/12 "2009-10-12T21:34:12Z")
An interesting “if you like A you might like B” site: [http://www.music-map.com/ottmar+liebert.html](http://www.music-map.com/ottmar+liebert.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/13 "2009-10-12T22:48:52Z")
> [@misling](#): > > An interesting “if you like A you might like B” site: > [http://www.music-map.com/ottmar+liebert.html](http://www.music-map.com/ottmar+liebert.html) That is very cool! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/14 "2009-10-13T21:00:24Z")
Second Jesse Cook and adding Ray Lynch. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-mom-likes-ottmar-liebert-she-will-also-like/513165/15 "2009-10-27T00:06:48Z")
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