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Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:03 am**

Singer/Songwriters? Acoustic Music? Hokey Folkies? I just didn't wanna leave 'em out!!

and here's my first entry....sans any discussion of his politics

Cat Stevens, the voice, the arrangements, lyrics, great backup vocals, and yummy as well!!

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:35 am**

Earl Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's bluegrass boys in 1945, and there met lead singer Lester Flatt, where they helped to define what we have since come to know as the sound of bluegrass music. Flatt and Scruggs left Monroe's band in 1948, and went on to record some of bluegrass music's best known classics, with a prolific career extending into the late 1960's. Flatt and Scruggs also had a several commercial successes which, for better or worse, established bluegrass stereotypes in the minds of the American public, with songs such as the Beverley Hillbillies theme song and the Bonnie and Clyde movie soundtrack. Lester Flatt died in 1979, and Earl Scruggs continues to play infrequently to this day.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:05 pm**

HA! nice one Esmer

Earl's Breakdown is my favorite.

here's another one of my favorites...Leo Kottke

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:04 pm**

Geez, what about JT?

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:39 pm**

what aBOUT him? i love JT...seen him 3 times, met him in Louisville but made an idiot of myself as he is SOOOO tall and larger than life, i was stupified. loves JT.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:33 pm**

I've yet to hear an accoustic based artist that really grabs me. XTC has turned in some interesting stuff but I was already a fan of their usual material. Maybe its the inherent laid back, folksy style I can't get into. dAN would say I'm closed minded and he wouldn't be completely wrong. Who knows once I hit 50 or so I may have mellowed to the point where I don't have to hear crunchy electric guitars with every bit of music I listen to.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:55 am**

Ah thought I'd put Neil up 1st, didn't you?

Michael Hedges-this guy will blow you away

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:11 am**

Early Cohen.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:00 am**

aTOMiC wrote:I've yet to hear an accoustic based artist that really grabs me. XTC has turned in some interesting stuff but I was already a fan of their usual material. Maybe its the inherent laid back, folksy style I can't get into. dAN would say I'm closed minded and he wouldn't be completely wrong. Who knows once I hit 50 or so I may have mellowed to the point where I don't have to hear crunchy electric guitars with every bit of music I listen to.

aawww. thass okay aTOMiC. to each his own man.

for myself, i like all kinds of music acoustic or electric but each has their own ears and i'm down with that. have you ever listened to Chris Whitley? he can do either one...and he plays a National Steel. check him out. matter of fact i know a LOT of "crunchers" and "thrashmasters" that play BOMB acoustic. Chris Cornell comes immediately to mind, as does Jimmy Page and a host of others.
and as for "mellowing" toward 50 into something acoustic...i'm 47 and my CRUNCHIER days are not over yet. heh.

Chris Whitley...sorry the image is so big but i just love this photo of him.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:37 am**

two rockers who have great acoustic albums/sets

Kristin Hersh
Bob Mould

have seen both acoustic. also saw Bob electric.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:19 pm**

I'm generallly with Tom on the acoustic issue. Over the years, though, I have slowly come around to liking the AiC Unplugged album.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:22 pm**

I like the Pogues.
Spirit of the West.
Crash Test Dummies early stuff.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:23 pm**

I really hated the whole "Unplugged" phenomenon from the late '80s until it mercifully passed. There were some standout performances, to be sure.....

-AiC's painful to watch swan song.

-Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold the World, the only thing worth a damn they ever did IMO.

-Great White's amazing cover of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.

-Oasis playing without Liam, who was heckling from the audience.

....But for the most part the performances were horrible.

Michael Hedges, while being a technically brilliant player, to me has utterly no soul. The only modern player that I think is truly gifted on an acoustic guitar is Lindsey Buckingham.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:53 pm**

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:44 pm**

Cail wrote:.-Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold the World, the only thing worth a damn they ever did IMO

Except the fact that they used an electric guitar.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:21 pm**

Well, they used some sort of distortion on an acoustic, so it was cheating a bit.

CSN(&Y) is really hit and miss for me. Southern Cross and Wasted On The Way are two phenominal songs, but I can't think of another one I like.

Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:21 pm**

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Posted: **Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:32 pm**

I don't care if Hedges' has no soul--he's simply unbelivable! So

take that Cail! You like Journey don't you? Well that explains it!

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