# Recommend song acoustic guitar music! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664 "2004-03-05T06:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/1 "2004-03-05T06:09:43Z")
I’m looking to expand my musical library, and I thought that I’d ask the _Teeming Millions_ for a little help. I love acoustic guitar music, either solo (a la early Jewel), or with a band behind the singer. So it doesn’t HAVE to be a solo artist. For instance, Wilco (and their stuff with Billy Bragg), The Counting Crows _Storytellers_, Allison Krause, Jimmy Buffett, Sheryl Crowe, etc are among what U generally listen to in this format. So, come on, people…give me some recommendations! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/2 "2004-03-05T06:12:24Z")
Geez, the news about **Persephone** ’s screwing with me worse than I though. Can I get a mod to please change the title to “Recommend SOME acoustic guitar music?” And, in the OP, it should be “…what _I_ generally listen to,” not “what U” ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/3 "2004-03-05T13:17:15Z")
Lorna Vallings is a really high-quality indie artist that is sort of a hybrid between Shawn Colvin and Sheryl Crow. [www.lornavallings.com](http://www.lornavallings.com), there are plenty of MP3 samples. Her second album is more like Dar Williams, her newest is more acoustic rock with a lot more band stuff behind it. Oh, an Dar Williams would be in the right ball park too. [www.darwilliams.com](http://www.darwilliams.com). And Catie Cutris (particularly early Catie Curtis). Curtis’s music was used a LOT in the first season of the TV series _Felicity_. [www.catiecurtis.com](http://www.catiecurtis.com) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/4 "2004-03-05T13:51:43Z")
Zut! I hit submit too soon! The three I mentioned above often tour with minimal band support so you get great solo acoustic performances. If you really like the sound you’d probably want to start with earlier albums and work your way forward. Later albums have more production and more electric instruments. Catie Curtis’s _Truth from Lies_ and Lorna Vallings’s _Taste_ and _Horses_. Curtis’s album in particular if you like early Jewel. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/5 "2004-03-05T19:00:05Z")
You don’t say what genre you are interested in, but here are some talented folks: Acoustic Alchemy Paco De Lucia Ottmar Liebert Charlie Byrd Chet Atkins For a combination of acoustic and electric, try “Elegant Gypsy”, an album by Al Dimeola and Paco de Lucia. ---
**Author:** ![ryanbobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ryanbobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryanbobo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/6 "2004-03-05T19:55:53Z")
You might want to check out Nick Drake. Folk singer from the 70’s. You might remember his song “Pink Moon” from the volvo commercial of the people riding in the convertible Cabriolet along the beach at night where they pull up to a party, then decide to keep driving. He can be depressing, though. I find it hard to listen to a whole album straight through. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-song-acoustic-guitar-music/232664/7 "2004-03-05T19:59:51Z")
Have you heard Dan Fogelberg?