Acoustic guitars and sweeping strings

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Can anyone suggest any choice acoustic folk or rock artists? Melodic, rockin', classic stuff, ideally mixed with strings.

Have recently been checking out a couple of successes like Leo Kottke ('The Driving of the Year Nail' blows me away), Peter Lang ('Red Meat on the Road'), but have also fallen victim to a host of depressing failures courtesy of Amazon...

Am now desperate and manically searching for music that sparks - too much mediocrity in my collection!

Guidance welcomed - if anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.

Cheers.

― Tobysan, Friday, 21 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Acoustic guitars and sweeping strings? Sounds like you need a dose of The Zephyres.

― Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 21 November 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If you like Kottke and Lang, check out the Michael Gulezian Unspoken Intentions cd on Takoma, if you haven't already. No sweeping strings present, but you really don't want those do you?

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

― man, Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Love's "Forever Changes"

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

MATT POND PA......

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon Martyn - Solid Air
Kings of Convenience

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomas Dybdahl

― man, Saturday, 22 November 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Try these... i've added a suggested (exemplifying) song from each.

Nina Nastasia ("Ocean")
Damien Rice ("The Blower's Daughter")
Okkervil River ("Seas too far to reach")
The Frames ("Seven Day Mile")
Van Morrison ("Sweet Thing")

― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 22 November 2003 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

not much in the way of strings, but i am currently loving Shirley Collins & Davy Graham's "Folk Roots, New Routes" and C.O.B.'s "Spirit of Love", two revelatory records. when i need a dose of sublime strings i always throw "Expecting to Fly" on.

― arc, Saturday, 22 November 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

man OTM

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 November 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i just realized that 3 of the 5 artists this canadian recommended were irish.

― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 22 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

john renbourn, tim hardin, michael head & the strands/shack, hopkirk & lee

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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