# Just me and my guitar....namea song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939 "2006-01-28T01:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/41 "2006-01-31T14:01:27Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > Dear Lord I have been listening to/playing this song for the past hour. > > Gorgeous. Thanks… You could check out Jeff Buckey’s version too. Rather nice IMO. **Glee** , I see what you mean about Fire and Rain…_sob_ ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/42 "2006-01-31T14:02:44Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > You could check out Jeff Buckey’s version too. Rather nice IMO. > > **Glee** , I see what you mean about Fire and Rain…_sob_ Buck **l** ey !! Don’t know who Jeff Buckey is. Sounds like a porn star… ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/43 "2006-01-31T16:20:59Z")
Saw some Elliott Smith recs. Some others you may like: Needle in the Hay - very simple but haunting in a raw, almost punk (but soft) sort of way Miss Misery - there’s an accompanied version but Elliott has done a solo acoustic version as well. Very elegant, and like most of his stuff, sad. Memory Lane - fast beautiful jazzy-sounding number that took me quite a while to learn even passably (btw, thanks for the Angeles reminder… gonna try and tackle that one next since I do need some more finger-picking exercise) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/44 "2006-01-31T17:17:33Z")
A couple of the ones I was going to suggest have been mentioned (James Taylor and Cat Stevens), but a couple haven’t been yet. One is Neil Young; try [The Needle and the Damage Done](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47E17DC49A97220C7932B43C0A67FA458FE4AED81106E495AD1A930499F0563F240A4C6CEB0E577B479A9B32FA6500FD2C0EA55ECBC1B&sql=33:axftxxlsldhe), [When You Dance You Can Really Love](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47E17DC49A97220C7932B43C0A67FA458FE4AED81106E495AD1A930499F0563F240A4C6CEB0E577B479A9B32FA6500FD2C0EA51ECBC1B&sql=33:zad5vcrwa92k), or [Old Man](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47E17DC49A97220C7932B43C0A67FA458FE4AED81106E495AD1A930499F0563F240A4C6CEB0E577B479A9B32FA6500FD2C0EA51ECBC1B&sql=33:ypg9kemtfqkb), for instance. > [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > . . . or something by Emerson, Lake and Palmer–don’t try to copy the keyboard parts, just get the chords, change the key and sing it. That’s the other one I was going to suggest. [From the Beginning](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47E17DC49A97220C7932B43C0A67FA458FE4AED81106E495AD1A930499F0563F240A4C6CEB0E577B479A9B32FA5500ADBC0EE57ECAD1B&sql=33:vy3ibkj9takx) was one of my favorites to [del]play[/del], I mean butcher, back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/45 "2006-01-31T17:46:40Z")
I’ll second **Everlong** and **Needle In The Hay**. Some more of my favorites that I love to hear (and are pretty accessible to a general audience): **Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town** - Pearl Jam **Pink Houses** - John Cougar Mellencamp **Dead or Alive** - Bon Jovi **Stuck in a Moment** - U2 **Mrs. Robinson** - Simon & Garfunkel **Landslide** - Fleetwood Mac **God Put a Smile Upon Your Face** - Coldplay **Overkill** - Men at Work **Faith** - George Michael **Don’t Tell Me** - Madonna ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/46 "2006-01-31T20:19:19Z")
Oh, and get some Richard Thompson to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939/47 "2006-02-01T05:45:05Z")
[Vyktoria Pratt Keating](http://www.vyktoria.com/) plays live solo acoustic guitar with such understated intricate fludity it sounds like a whole band’s worth of music. Her CDs are worth getting, although they’re more produced. It’s when she plays live and alone that her picking talent can be clearly seen and heard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-me-and-my-guitar-namea-song/341939.md?page=2)