Your Go to CD to Impress

I had a bunch of 20 - 25 years old over. They like modern country music so we played some top 25.

They liked it a lot so I said how about this - folk not country but close enough.  

Alison Krauss - A Hundred Miles or More of a Collection from 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WNpwyP0_IA

Many of the above are favorites.  Another to check out is on the NAIM label - Antonio Forcione - Ghetto Paradise.  Amazing guitarist.

James Taylor Gaya
Holly Cole Tennessee Waltz
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Blood Sweat and Tears Lonesome Suzy
Mighty Sam McClain Too Proud
Charles Lloyd The Water is Wide
Charlie Haden and Pat Metheney Behond the Missouri Sky
Dave Grusin Two for the Road

Dire straights or just about any mark knopler tune 

Call me different
I go for stuff that has unusual musicality and is downtempo
BY BAND NAME - Album Name

AIR = 10,000 Hz album for near rockers
ALL INDIA RADIO - The Silent Surf - low key
BLISS - my favorite female voice
BALMORHEA - Self Titled, mellow
BANCO DE GAIA = Last Train to Lhasa - Trains to Music on this one track
BROKENKITES = Fugue State, deep and demanding
EMANCIPATOR - Safe in the Steep Cliffs, articulate composition
KATIE MELUA - yet another notable voice
LINDSEY STERLING - Shatter Me = killer modern violin

Let me know if anyone listens to these and I will rattle out the rest  of the alphabet of my music.