Recommended acoustic recordings

Po'Girl, "Home to You"

Crooked Still, "Shaken By a Low Sound"

Clarke, Van Zandt and others, "Heartworn Highways"

Cowboy Junkies, "Acoustic Junk"

For the first two, recordings better than adequate, for the second two, recordings very nice. All performances memorable.

John

Ed Gerhard - The Live Album

The new Shelby Lynne CD "Tears, Lies, and Alibis" is accoustic... and it's her best yet.

I'll second the Charles Lloyd recommendation of Fromunda's, and add another of his albums, "The Call," which features Bobo Stenson on piano, Anders Jormin on double-bass, Billy Hart on drums, and Charles Lloyd on tenor sax. Spectacular in every way.

In a slightly different vein, "Ojos Negros" (also on ECM) with Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner. I'm not much of a fan of the mish-mash that goes by the name of "world music," and this ISN'T world music, even though it combines the bandoleon and the cello. Give the tracks a listen on Amazon, and you'll see what I mean. Touching throughout.

Oh, and one more fantastic recording: Bill Evans and Monica Zetterlund's "Waltz for Debbie." Very obscure, and I only found out about it when I was going through Bill Evans' Complete Recordings on Verve, making a compilation cd of my favorites. Well, every song on this made the cut, and the recording itself is not to be believed. When I roll tubes, or want to show off my sound system, this is the album I go back to. You can barely find it, though Amazon has it available for preview here:
http://www.amazon.com/Waltz-Debby-Monica-Zetterlund-Evans/dp/B00008KKTE/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1276191802&sr=1-1-fkmr0

BTW, can someone tell me how to do that link thing, that allows you to post a link in a more economical way? I'm an old dog who hasn't learned that trick.