Acoustic Friday - aka, The Weekend Unplugged

[sunvalleylaw]

Since I have been primarily in acoustic land the last week or two, and since I have not put up a Friday song list in a while, here is some acoustic niceness for Friday. Please feel free to add some! And happy Friday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjvapPF8wlg
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My favorite acoustic tone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWovzUEe4l8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8p8mYP_5A&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApXVzNfocc&feature=related
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[jpfeifer]

Here are some that I like from George Harrison:

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The image quality on this next one is really weak, but the performance is great. I remember seeing this air when George made one of his only appearances on Saturday Night Live, and he played with Paul Simon (how cool is that)!
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[evenkeel]

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[just strum]

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[peachhead]

Evenkeel- thanks, man, that's one of my favorite songs and it was absolutely beautiful to hear.

[sunvalleylaw]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFEAoPU9gEg
video is a little shaky, but great performance!

And another
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1LXXRzXg-w&feature=related

And a classic from Nirvana unplugged, covering Bowie:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADOj07onrA

And a beautifully done acoustic cover:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLW6G6LYLt4

to mellow it out again.

[pes_laul]

How about some foos?

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EDIT: Ok for some reason the times like these video is really off sync. My bad:thwap

[evenkeel]

Great posts. The SRV, Pride and Joy, on a Guild 12 is a killer. Love the variety of styles posted. One more from one of my favorite songwriters.

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[wingsdad]

Some of the O.F.C. Fretters like me may recall this wunderkind of the acoustic 12'er...making the most out of open tunings, slide & fingers...

WARNING: The following material is not recommended for the faint-hearted or self-contented player:

On TV flying solo in his younger days...
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On Garrison Keilor's TV 'Radio' show... with a pretty decent sideman, this time with a 6, putting a twist on an old 'back seat baby-maker'..
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...older, but never better, doing an old tune prob'ly more familiarly credited to Bonnie Raitt...one-on-one:
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[bigG]

Nice thread here, SVL! (Being so acoustically enamoured as I have been these past months.) Some truly GREAT songs and talent in these posts! Thanks to all for some wonderful videos, and, in some cases, some wonderful memories! :applause

Alas, I have nothing to add vid-wise at this time...:nope

[sunvalleylaw]

Ok, I am moved to keep this going. The thread is now aka The Weekend Unplugged.

Not too many females represented, so here is a new comer I like, who performs acoustically a lot. Her guitarist and bass player are pretty good too, and hale from the Seattle bar scene as former punkers.

EDIT: Embedding is disabled so click the links underneath each vid please.

Here is a simple song I want to learn, though I am not sure I can do her yodeling at the end.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eju5AuLFew&feature=channel

Here is another nice one with some cool, mellow acoustic guitar.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxr5C_Rah0&feature=channel

[pes_laul]

Some Alice in Chains

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[just strum]

I know SVL will appreciate this. Acoustic with a little electronics help.

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[sunvalleylaw]

Nice guys! keep it coming. I didn't even think of picking up some unplugged Alice. Good catch Kris! That Keaggy stuff is cool too!

[wingsdad]

Way back in the era of beehives and crewcuts, a young guy from Queens, NY, with his unknown brother Eddie in the foreground, before rising to fame & glory as a songwriter/singer with his singing partner in the next clip...overlooked and uderrated as an acoustic guitarist, IMHO...
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...and recently, with Artie, that singing partner, for a nostaligic reprise of a timeless moment of song...

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[sunvalleylaw]

Good one Wingsdad! The Boxer is a particular favorite. S&G will forever remind me of "The Graduate" which I did not see until the '80s while in college. That early clip is very cool. Nice guitar work! :AOK :AOK

[tjcurtin1]

Wingsdad - thanks for the great choice of Kottke! He was the first acoustic player who grabbed me as much as any electric player and remains an all-time favorite. If you ever get the chance to see him live, don't miss it. It was my gift of the first Kottke LP to my then 14 year-old brother when he got his first guitar that fired him up for a lifelong guitar playing habit.

[pes_laul]

A band I've been getting into

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Not exactly a good video but good sound quality

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[sunvalleylaw]

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Some fingerstyle and nice lyrics.

[evenkeel]

Has anybody gotten more mileage and great tunes out of three major chords than John Prine?? Don't even need the minor 6.

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And one more from the geezer folk archives.

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[wingsdad]

Wingsdad - thanks for the great choice of Kottke! ... If you ever get the chance to see him live, don't miss it.
You're welcome, Ted, and oh, yes...I saw him live many times in the Cambridge/Boston/Greater New England area when I was plugging away in your neck o' the woods from '78-'81. The band I was in even opened for him once at Jonathan Swift's (Cambridge joint). But, I digress..


Good one Wingsdad! The Boxer is a particular favorite. S&G will forever remind me of "The Graduate" which I did not see until the '80s while in college. That early clip is very cool. Nice guitar work!

Big Fave of mine, too, Steve. 'Anji' was actually included on their 1st or 2nd LP. There's many more clips on YT, I've got many bookmarked, but they're easy to find off that one. But here's one that pairs him with an old redhead and his pal, Trigger':
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To address this comment of yours:

Not too many females represented...

When Heart's 'Dreamboat Annie' came out ('76), I was enraptured by the marvelous acoustic guitar work throughout. The first 2:30 of this particular live clip of 'Crazy On You' (there's a boatload on YT) from back then is the relevant part for this thread, as it shows Nancy Wilson at her best...extending and improvosing her solo intro, and positively launching the remainder of the song. Her acoustic work drives the whole song.
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An Ovation Custom Balladeer was her tool at the time. While a lot of 'wood purist' folks today scoff at Ovations, but back then, it was revolutionary for what it made possible that today is taken for granted. Nancy would become thier original poster-child for their radical (then) carbon/resin topped Adamas.

[sunvalleylaw]

Heck yeah Mick! Good catch on Nancy and Heart! Although I am a PNW'er, I consistently forget about Heart, and all the great work they did.

[evenkeel]

Wingsdad,
That post of Nelson and Simon doing Homeward Bound is spectacular. The vocal phrasing is wonderful and although fairly simple the guitar work is terrific. Great stuff. :AOK

The Kottke post are great. His playing is just jaw dropping. Open tunings on a 12'er just seems crazy, but it sounds so good in his hands.

[wingsdad]

'PNW'er'?:confused: Whazzat?

OK...I'm digging this thread you started, Steve, and the range of stuff that folks have tossed up to enjoy.:AOK

So here's an S&G chestnut spun for a purpose by (I suppose...) an unlikely pair. once you get past JBJ's intro comments, it's actually an excellent, simple guitar treatment with fine vocals by the 2 of them. Sambora's another often-Ovation player.
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And here they are doing one of their own, same '96 fundrasing gig:
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[wingsdad]

Wingsdad,
That post of Nelson and Simon doing Homeward Bound is spectacular. The vocal phrasing is wonderful and although fairly simple the guitar work is terrific. Great stuff. :AOK
Isn't it, though? Beats me how I got led to it by YT, but the audio really makes Simon's cheap :drool Martin (isn't it?) sound great.

The Kottke post are great. His playing is just jaw dropping. Open tunings on a 12'er just seems crazy, but it sounds so good in his hands.
I can't remember, exactly, but a Stella 12'er played open/slide was the tool of an old Black bluesman ...was it Hudie Ledbetter (a/k/a Leadbelly)?

I'm really surprised that this guy hasn't shown up in this thread yet:

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[street music]

This is one of my favorites
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[tjcurtin1]

Evenkeel - a John Prine album accompanied the Kottke that I gave my brother that birthday long ago! I love his songs and his lyrics - even when they're sad there is somehow a streak of sweet along with.

[sunvalleylaw]

'PNW'er'?:confused: Whazzat?

OK...I'm digging this thread you started, Steve, and the range of stuff that folks have tossed up to enjoy.:AOK



Mick, I meant Pacific NorthWesterner. :poke :AOK I am glad you are enjoying the thread. Me too! I like the mix of boomer and post boomer artists, and the different styles as well, and seeing how they relate or differ.
Thanks for all the contributions, Mick, and everyone else! We still have some time left this weekend to add some more! :AOK :AOK :happy

Here are a couple of post boomers to add to the mix.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK0LWsEcSjM&feature=related

And a good ol' boomer I listen to now and again. :applause

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqeQgCt-6eg
Shaky vid again, but it is just him acoustically.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qSl2RWMoY&feature=channel

A couple of different generations of beach music.

[oldguy]

Two acoustics, nice, full sound, IMO.

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[just strum]

It's not a clip of the actual performance, but the acoustic is prevalent in the song. I hope it fits in.

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[bigG]

Here are a few that have been left out so far (forgive my lack of embed skills):

The great Gordon Lightfoot performing "If You Could Read My Mind":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Y

"Early Morning Rain":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_MDIYhPH0

"The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l3x_VoF3wo

[bigG]

Another of my all-time favorites. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, here w their first hit, a cover of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQYn-GvGOM

Their Series of 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' Trilogy. The song here performed w an ensemble of living legends. From Roy Acuff to Chet, Levon Helm, Johnny Cash, Chris Hillman, June Carter Cash (whose father, AP Carter wrote this legendary tune) and many, many more legends in one studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3afUrkx_VwM

Arguably, true acoustic mountain music is still vibrant and alive today due to the efforts of The NGDB.

Here they do their hit "Long Hard Road" (gotta love the harmony!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGdEMstkBA

[wingsdad]

Great stuff, bigG:cool: Wondered when you catch up to this thread, seein' as how you've been bit by the acoustic bug big-time lately... as has your wallet :poke

This thread has been a refreshing change of pace in a forum so dominated by discussion of the electric beast and all it's associated technology. Not sayin' that's a bad thing, but...the simple power and grace of pure wood (or synthetic materials like carbon resins) and steel in skilled hands...small wonder that the acoustic guitar is a favored songwriter's tool, second to a piano/keyboard.

Here's a clip of 'the king of flattops' - a Gibson AJ-200 - as played by the songwriter solitarily performing a composition of his that was taken to a whole other level electrically and electronically with his bandmates. It all starts with a good song.

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John Hall played (still does, I guess) a powerful Strat, but his acoustic guitar work made this song a grabber from the opening riffs and the vocals took it from there:

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[wingsdad]

It's not a clip of the actual performance, but the acoustic is prevalent in the song. I hope it fits in.

Man, strummy...it sure does. :AOK Poignant that Zevon wrote that to his family as his self-epitaph... again, most remember him for his pounding the piano, but he wrote a great deal with an acoustic 12, as he did that one. Lots of 3 chorders.

So, OG throws Croce & sidekick Maury Muhlheissen up here. I remember I was stuck in traffic on the way to work when the news cut in that their little plane went down after leaving a gig in Lousiana (Nagatoches?).

John Denver started out with a quintessential 60's folkie group, The Chad Mitchell Trio, and went on to write a bunch of great material on his acoustic. Where would Peter, Paul & Mary have gone without 'Leavin' On a Jet Plane'?

This clip is from a gig about a year or so before he went down tragically in his glider...where has 1997 gone? There were lots of sarcastic jokes and bs like that about him afterwards. But there's no denying, IMHO, how many of his songs so eloquently and gently played like movies in your head as you listened on the car radio. And this song may have been his best ( my fave of his, anyway) and his vocal here reveals, I think, much more than the surface shows:

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EDIT: BTW: Run, do not walk, and pick up a copy of John Fogerty's "Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again'. That is, of course, if you dig Fogerty at all. Like his first solo album after CCR, he covers (this time with a supporting cat of wnderful musicians and guest vocalists...) some great American songs...and 'Back Home Again' is one of them he pays homage to.

And of course, this one....anybody wanna venture a guess how many times this song played either on a jukebox or by the band on stage after the barkeeps sounded 'Last Call'?

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[bigG]

Thanks, wingsdad! This is one of, if not my, favorite threads on this incomparable forum! (I was looking for some "postable" Fred Neil and Jerry Jeff Walker vids, but none were postable-grade, so to speak...please check them out on youtube, because both of these legends deserve the recognition.)

Please indulge a few more of my favorites from one of the best, and one of my heroes, the incomparable John Prine:

"Sam Stone" (from Prine's first, eponymously titled LP):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mo7p7ictF8&feature=related

"Hello In There" (from the same album - baldgit does a great cover on here):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nd6fgL-jv0&feature=related

"Illegal Smile" (again from the same album!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAh0dh1FhjQ&feature=related

"Flag Decal" (AGAIN from the same album - nothin but classics, this disc!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKxfQ9mJ-NY&feature=related

(The little 3-piece acoustic band I was in in the early 80s covered all of the above-listed songs - as well as others posted in this thread. Damn, we were good, if I do say so myself...)

"It's a Big Old Goofy World" (from "The Missing Years", a marvelous, later Prine album):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACwVOJXpn0&feature=related

Jeez! I'll stop now, but I could go on and on w SO many more John Prine classics. They're on youtube (alot of 'em, anyway...)

What a fantastic thread! Thanks again, Steve, for gettin' this rollin'! :applause

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[wingsdad]

.. the incomparable John Prine:

"Sam Stone" (from Prine's first, eponymously titled LP)

I Still have the vinyl of that one G...:AOK

How timeless is that song? Not to go OT & OOB political here, but...it's not just timeless, it's timely.

[sunvalleylaw]

Stum, sure that fits. You know I am a Warren fan and miss him. That album was hauntingly beautiful. Yes he worked the piano, but he played some good guitar too. Not flashy, more of a writing tool, but he was skilled enough, and his playing fit the songs he wrote.

Wingsdad, I was really busy this afternoon, but was saying to myself that I could not believe I had not put up some John Denver. One of my first music memories. John always meant Christmas to me. I was a young kid when he did he pre-muppets Christmas specials, and his muppets shows were fun too. I know we are a few days ahead of Thanksgiving but anyway, here are my two favorite carols/Christmas songs, performed by John.

Stille Nacht (Silent Night) has such a beautiful story re: the mice eating the bellows for the organ, and Franz Gruber writing it for guitar (acoustic obviously, as it was still the 1800's). Kinda makes your point about writing beautiful songs on simple acoustic instruments like piano and guitar.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMsTZKpEn0
You can't hear his guitar much on this recording, but the point about song writing is what I am getting at with this one.
This link, selection number 5 is the good acoustic version.
http://www.lala.com/#search/john%20denver%20silent%20night

This song to his son just made my cry when my kids were still babies. I could so relate. You have to click on the link, then select song number two to hear the good acoustic version. Enjoy!

http://www.lala.com/#search/john%20denver%20baby%20just%20like%20you

[bigG]

I Still have the vinyl of that one G...:AOK

How timeless is that song? Not to go OT & OOB political here, but...it's not just timeless, it's timely.

Me, too, wingsdad! The vinyl and CD copies! I have everything John Prine has released on either vinyl or CD. Simply one of the best ever! I gotta say, I love the guy! :AOK

[bigG]

+1 Steve, re the late great John Denver (and Warren Zevon)! Since I've "gone acoustic", his discs, as well as many others represented here, are the ones I've been playing along with.

Honestly, I've spent hours on this thread watching these videos! Marvelous! :applause :cool: :crazyguy :AOK :happy

[markb]

Anji, the original (and best) version. Although Bert Jansch's take had its followers. Audio only.

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BigG, I never thought I'd hear Warren Zevon and John Denver mentioned in the same sentence. :cool:

[sunvalleylaw]

Another not fancy, more rhythm oriented one. A nice, early, live performance from this newcomer. Nice positive vibes. :AOK

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irSklXqsXBo&feature=fvw

[hagarfreak33]

If this was posted already sorry:AOK I love this version of in your eyes

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[bigG]

I know it's no longer the weekend, but I thought I'd fudge these in on a Monday, mostly because I didn't want five days to forget to do this one! It's my sincere hope that some fretters who were unaware of Stevie Goodman will view these, and his legend will live on after us old-timers have gone.

Well, here's a few more, this time devoted to lyrics - the art of wordsmithery, if you will. And absolutely no one was better at it than the late great Stevie Goodman (a best friend of the other greatest wordsmith, John Prine, for years).

Goodman remained a cult hero, but wrote many a hit for others (Arlo Guthrie's cover of "City of New Orleans", David Allen Coe's "You Never Even Call Me By My Name"...). He had a Keith Moon aura about him, and, I swear, in some of these videos, his eyes ARE the eyes of Keith Moon!

So, please pay particularly close attention to the lyrics of these great songs (his pickin' ain't bad, either!):

Goodman and Prine together, doing "Souvenirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTbg39-I5Q&feature=related

Goodman's "I'm My Own Grandpa":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtHZDPoRdU&feature=fvw

His "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBxZGQ1dJk&feature=related

The original version of his "City of New Orleans":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXGFKpWUOW0&feature=related

Original version of "You Never Even Call Me By My Name (The Perfect Country and Western Song)":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw1TABbGyfc&feature=related

And, lastly, his amazing "Talk Backwards":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSMAjg2zCU&feature=related

[just strum]

Stum, sure that fits. You know I am a Warren fan and miss him.

Yep, I remember that and figured you would have a special appreciation for the post.

[wingsdad]

...It's my sincere hope that some fretters who were unaware of Stevie Goodman will view these, and his legend will live on after us old-timers have gone....

:AOK Dang, bigG, thanks for making it a 3-day weekend and bringing Goodman, as you did Prine, into this, to reinforce the fact that the use of the acoustic guitar as a songwriter's tool and highly portable and convenient one-man band's weapon of choice goes back to Medieval times and Minstrels and Troubadours.

Oh, well...I had a couple of more, but they'll have to wait until next weekend, I s'pose. I wouldn't want to get busted for going OT. Or bore the Dark Side Majority any further.:poke

[sunvalleylaw]

Oh, well...I had a couple of more, but they'll have to wait until next weekend, I s'pose. I wouldn't want to get busted for going OT. Or bore the Dark Side Majority any further.:poke

I don't think anyone would bust you Wings. :) But it might be cool to let this thread get updated on weekends. That way, it stays a little special. If you wanted to slip a couple more in today, I wouldn't bark. :AOK

As far as boring the electric majority, I hope not! :o :notme That is partially the point of the thread for me. We have a mix of artists known only for acoustic work, and electric guys who go unplugged sometimes on certain songs (Pearl Jam for instance), and some who go unplugged ala '90s MTV style on electric pieces. I certainly am not giving up on my electric side, and I don't call either side dark or light. All these acoustic pieces give different perspectives from the different styles, age groups, etc. though. Since I have been gaining a new perspective on my playing with my new Martin, I thought I'd start a little something. I am glad it turned into this and I hope it keeps going! :AOK :AOK

[pes_laul]

one of my new favorites

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[wingsdad]

.... it might be cool to let this thread get updated on weekends...

I was just late with that last post due to being on the Left Coast...so, to get it going again this weekend, here's one by Strum's 'favorite band' ( :sarcasm ) from their '94 comback 'Hell Freezes Over' kickoff concert tv gig that I thought of too late for last weekend and that falls under your noteworthy category of...


... some who go unplugged ala '90s MTV style on electric pieces.

Besides punctuating the opening of the show with the new intro that Felder added for this acoustic version of the song he originally composed something like 12 or 16 guitar parts for the familiar album cut, watch for the contrast in Felder's and Joe Walsh's nylon-string technique as the 2 gunslingers work over & around Glenn Frey's steady harpsichordal 12-string arpeggio work and Timmy Schmidt's bedrock bass.

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[bigG]

Hello and a good Friday to ya, fellow fretters!

I thought I'd add another artist to this great thread. Rory Block doing Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues". Block is recognized as THE expert and foremost student of all things Robert Johnson, having devoted her life to the study of the man, his music, and, in particular, his exact playing style.

This might sound a bit sloppy by modern standards, but Block plays the song EXACTLY as Robert Johnson did when recorded, to the last detail. She also has a fine pedigree, having learnt at the feet of the Rev. Gary Davis and Son House.

Here's Rory Block's performance of "Cross Road Blues":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTUoV67M60

And here she teaches and explains the intro lick to "Cross Road Blues" (note how serious and immersed in Robert Johnson mojo and knowledge!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5TDcNcxMk

Acoustic slide blues and Robert Johnson lovers should enjoy this one. :AOK :greenguitar:

[bigG]

And, no acoustic discussion (or Thread) can possibly be complete without the man, Mr. Bob Dylan (nee Zimmerman)! :applause

Here's a great performance from 1975 of his "Hurricane":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm6ypcrGKDw

And from the same 1975 show, "Simple Twist of Fate":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GMbudfNfw&NR=1

From 1995's great 'Bob Dylan - Unplugged' (MTV), "Knockin' on Heaven's Door":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUaTBO_-k4A

And a very early (1963) black n white vid of his iconic, classic "Blowin' in the Wind" (w Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pIZ5t1Tu24

As we old farts used to say, quite regularly: "Hey man, dig it!" :french

[wingsdad]

Mr. Zimmerman, indeed, bigG :cool: Enjoyin' that new Taylor 810? :dude

Looks like interest in this thread grew pretty limited after a hot opening weekend. Gee. Whoodathunkit?

Here's a couple of live performances from 2 artists that haven't turned up here yet...

Better than the breakout MTV unplugged version:

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He wasn't fancy or flashy....just, in his words, 'a rhythmer'. Here, stripped down to just acoustic guitars in 1971, doing a simple song he'd recently written...embedding disabled, so hit the link if interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFHUxCudN6w

[bigG]

Right on, wingsdad! Never thought I'd own a high-end Taylor, but when presented with this deal, I just couldn't pass it up.

I can understand there being a hardcore Martin-only camp, and the same for Taylor. The two certainly have their own unique voicing. If push came to shove, I'd land on the Martin side, but I can appreciate the lovely, silk-like tone of the Taylor equally. To say that one is "better" than the other is not necessary - they're just "different", and, of course, that's where subjective opinion comes into play.

And, yep, it seems this Thread was a one-off (as it were). But hopefully some of us will add a few new ones now and then, bump it, and keep it alive. I know I have at least 6 or 7 more artists to post when I get the time and can find decent videos from older days.

Great posts there, wingsdad! :cool:

Now I'm off to fingerpick me some Taylor! :happy