some guitar music recommendations please

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Guitar Slim, Jr.

Here's some specifics to consider.
Charlie Christian -- Solo Flight
Kenny Burrell -- Midnight Blue
Bill Evans/Jim Hall -- Undercurrent
Elvis Costello/Bill Frisell -- Deep Dead Blue

Wait, this box is a great place to start, and, it's CHEAP!

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''Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West Live''

broheems- got another one by them and its straight-ish blues (from the one listen I gave it): can you tell me abt this one, how diff is it? etc.

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Bach – Prelude from Suite in G maj for Solo Violoncello
Sor – Marche Funebre

These two are pieces I really enjoy playing. Fernando Sor is a late-classical-period French composer who's a deity in the guitar repertoire but unknown outside of it. "Marche Funebre" is of course, a slow sad but beautiful piece with intense emotion to it. The Bach prelude is one that everyone plays. It's really, I dunno, bright-pretty. I can't really recommend good recordings of these as I've mostly just experienced them as a player.

Rodrigo – Concierto di Aranjuez
Giuliani – Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra

Both of these are available on a good disc by John Williams. I believe you've mentioned elsewhere that you're familiar with and like the Rodrigo. Also check out Julian Bream's performance of his "Tres Piezas Espanolas" (on Spanish Guitar Recital, which is all good). I don't think you could go too wrong with Bream's recordings of anything.

Bream's Guitar Recital: Sor/Turina/Falla/Villa-Lobos/Torroba is a favourite disc of mine.

William Beauvais – Traces

I don't know how easy to find this is outside of Canada. Excellent performances of contemporary Canadian guitar compositions. Nothing inaccessibly avant-garde but all original and creative and very pretty pieces, particularly Shawn Bell's "Currents" (normally an electronic composer), which almost turns the guitar into a percussion instrument.

Ginastera – Sonata for Guitar

This is an amazing piece that's incredibly difficult and physically demanding to play, with some slow resonant or lyrical parts and some aggressively rhythmic and percussive parts. Timo Korhonen's performance is good.

Bill Frisell – The Intercontinentals, Ghost Town, Blues Dream

These are my favourite albums at the moment. He fuses jazz, blues, country, folk, and pop/rock elements, using massed layers of guitars, sometimes strummed or picked, sometimes making washes of ambient sound, sometimes playing feedback, sometimes electronically treated, often at the same time. It usually tends to still end up being soft, delicate, and emotional. The Intercontinentals features his work with Brazilian, Malian, and Greek musicians, combining these traditional musics with American folk musics. It's the most upbeat of the three and has some beautiful singing on a couple tracks. Ghost Town (which is playing now) is all layers of Frisell, the most lonely-sounding of them. It's probably the most folky. Blues Dream is more blues and jazz-influenced, with horns.

Sonny Sharrock – Highlife

Features Sharrock soloing over, well, highlife-like accompaniment. Has a laid-back, grooving, loungey kind of feel to it. The guitar melodies usually build into a wash of noise and then pull themselves back out. Features a synthy Kate Bush interpretation.

Last Exit – Koln

Sharrock playing in a more violent noise-rock/funk context, with Peter Brotzmann and Bill Laswell.

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet – Ayaya Moses

Compositions for four guitars who interact with each other in astonishing ways.

Oren Ambarchi – Suspension

Guitar becomes ambient drone.

Vincent Courtois/Marc Ducret/Dominique Pifarely – The Fitting Room

Ducret is the guitarist. The other two play cello and violin. Winding, tortured improvisations.

Rez Abbasi Trio – Snake Charmer

Fluidly virtuosic without being wanky. Fusion that incorporates sitar-guitar, Hindustani singing, and tablas. Emphasis on complex time changes.

Steven Mackey/Paul Lansky – “Dancetracks”

Just a really great piece of fusion soloing with electronic background. Glossy synth-drenched virtuosity at its best.

Leopold Brouwer – Tarantos, Cuban Landscape with Rain

"Tarantos" is a solo piece where the player has some freedom as to how to assemble the passages. A lot of long haunting chords and bursts of intensity. "Cuban Landscape" is for guitar ensemble, where the players create the effect of a rainstorm's development, eventually knocking the guitar bodies and slapping strings.

Derek Bailey – Ballads

Fiuczynski’s Headless Torsos – Amandala

Avant-fusion with some post-Hendrix wailing and some spaced-out feedback. A lot of use of effects pedals. Some classic riffs and hooks, some awesome noise, some Latin percussion. A really thick, heavy rocking sound.

the most joyous guitar sounds i have ever heard are here, especially the many joshua sithole and aaron mbambo tracks.

(Is Josh still around at all?)

nothing to do with guitars, but anyone curious about where the sampled chord sequence in Radiohead's 'Idioteque' came from, go to 0:44 in the mp3 of his 1973 piece 'Mild und Leise'.

'Tango En Skai' is by far my favourite classical guitar piece to perform. I often loop it for ages, getting carried away, boring people...except old people.

Are you familar with any of Jorge Cardoso's work? He's probably my favourite classical guitar composer, although I think I'm just starting to fully appreciate Bach's crazy counterpoint-ey (contrapuntal!) stuff.

Now I wish I hadn't cut my nails off!

Julio, this is the disc I was referring to. It's an archival release that was issued sometime in the 90s. I don't know which record you acquired, but yeah, pretty much all their stuff is straight-ahead blues (and not at all bad, mind you) aside from the title cut to their second lp. But what a cut it is! Early fusion of eastern / western musical motifs in a small guitar-band context, with beautiful modal solos traded between Elvin Bishop and Michael Bloomfield. And it's on this disc in three looooong live versions. The sound quality is a bit poor, but it's a great peek at the hatching of 60s higher-mind guitar exploration. I mean, the Dead were still pretty much a greaser band at this point!

It's like Bon Jovi making a noise album. I love it!