Your favorite acoustic artists?

[vurt]

i discovered will oldham by accident
got a mate called will oldham and one day whilst a little stoned out shopping,in hmv they had one of those sales where you can pick some ok stuff up because it doesnt sell well
anyway saw a will oldham album thought "hey that wiould be funny" had listen and thought ooh cool.
does he use othe non de plumes then
tell me more...

[Meffy]

Virgil Fox and E. Power Biggs.

... if pipe organs count as "acoustic." =^_^=

[GruvSyco]

Buckethead

[whyterabbyt]

anyway saw a will oldham album thought "hey that wiould be funny" had listen and thought ooh cool.
does he use othe non de plumes then
tell me more...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billie
Bonnie Billie
Palace
Palace Brothers

et.c.

http://users.bart.nl/%7Eljmeijer/oldham/index.htm

[tonymead]

Nick Drake
Damien Rice
Sufjan Stevens
The Decemberists
Neutral Milk Hotel
Elliott Smith
Love
America
Jose Gonzales
Beck

Great selection Jeff. I'll just add..

Death cab for cutie (not strictly acoustic but..)

[bluedad]

love the acoustic stuff from early Jethro Tull
not stictly acoustic, but it blends sooo well.
sossity
thick as a brick
skating away (on the thin ice of a new day)
etc..

[Meffy]

bluedad: Mmmm, definitely. You've inspired me to get out some early Tull right now. For which: thanks. :-)

[funkychickendance]

Nick Drake
Damien Rice
Sufjan Stevens
The Decemberists
Neutral Milk Hotel
Elliott Smith
Love
America
Jose Gonzales
Beck

All quite cool...

I'd add:

Bert Jansch
Nic Jones
John Renbourn
Davy Graham
Martin Carthy
The Incredible String Band
Sandy Bull
Richard Thompson
Kelly Joe Phelps
Rory Block
Ani DiFranco
Skip James
Mississippi John Hurt
..to name a few

/fcd
"dude, that's one old chicken"

[clueless]

the unfeasibly great Nick Drake

[Reverse Engineer]

i discovered will oldham by accident
got a mate called will oldham and one day whilst a little stoned out shopping,in hmv they had one of those sales where you can pick some ok stuff up because it doesnt sell well
anyway saw a will oldham album thought "hey that wiould be funny" had listen and thought ooh cool.
does he use othe non de plumes then
tell me more...

Where do i start?

Bonny Billy
Bonnie "Blue" Billy
Bonnie "Prince" Billy (also as Bonnie 'Prince' Billie)
Palace
Palace Brothers
Palace Music
Palace Songs

And that's only the ones i can remember offhand.

Edit : Just as whyterabbyt said

[allofdrab]

jim o'rourke sans laptop
penguin cafe orchestra
glenn gould
fond of tigers
julie doiron
marideth monk
john coltrane
ummm...
gotta go to work...
...
men at work?

[rockstar_not]

Current favorite is the Blue Merle

Think of a kind of a Coldplay meets Dave Matthews Band, all done on acoustic instruments with featured mandolin quite often.

http://www.bluemerle.com/main.html

I also like this independent artist from Minneapolis area: Chris Koza. First and last tracks on his CD are a bummer, but the rest of the disc is really inspired:
www.chriskoza.com
Check out his track 'Civil War Letters' for a beautiful Nick Drake fix.

-Scott

[dystonia_ek]

COMUS

[wrench45us]

kelly joe phelps deserves another mention

[Whoomph]

Luka Bloom is hugely under-rated imo,
Steve Cooney,
Dave Hayes,
But that's only for the mo, another time and it could be a lot less radio friendly

and I can listen to 'jenny wren' (new single by xbeatleman PMC) twice in a row every time
I put it on these days .

Leadbelly

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