Favourite Guitar CDs

most of my favorites . . . not in any order, and not all of these are pure guitar - but they all have very prominant guitar.

George Benson - White Rabbit, Bad Benson
Buckethead - Cholma, Electric Tears
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Philip Catherine - any of his
Camel - any of theirs
King Crimson - Red, Lark's Tongues in Aspic, any others
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn, Songs of a Distant Earth, others
The Pentangle - Sweet Child, others
Mark Knofler - Sailing to Philadelphia, Golden Heart
Neal Young - Harvest, After the Gold Rush
Jerry Douglas - most of his
and Eric Clapton - many/most of his
I'm crossing a few genres there. These are the ones I put on the player primarily for the guitar playing, but hardly exclusively for it

Can't believe nobody's mentioned "Friday Night in San Francisco"

Al Dimeola
Paco DeLucia and
John McLaughlin

This is a fantastic LIVE recording of some of the greatest guitar virtuosos of our time having a BLAST!

HIGHLY recommended.

Can't believe that either. Figures,ah? Passion,Grace&Fire is a masterpiece as well.

Pragmatist, Mfkeleher, Fab4fan: Segovia and Parkening are good but...
As a concert guitarist myself, I can't afford too much high-end equipment but I know who can play the guitar, here are a few of my favorites in no order: David Russell, Assad Brothers, Tilman Hoppstock, Alvaro Pierri, David Starobin Timo Korhonen, Gruber & Maklar, lutenists Paul O'Dette & Nigel North, Stephan Schmidt, Franz Halasz, Denis Azabagic, Jorge Caballero (MHS). These are all really worth hunting down. There are soooo many great players, it's really a shame nobody's listening except other classical guitarists!

Al Di Meola ,,"Land of the Midnight Sun"and "Elegant Gypsy"I think they were his first two albums,have some very heavy playing, unbelievable guitar