Good acoustic guitar based instrumental artists/albums?

BloodEagle

Hello all - Following the recent arrival of a little one I'd like to encourage/force her to listen to some gentle finger picked acoustic guitar stuff -  preferably instrumental, preferably good so that I can enjoy it as well. Any recommendations anyone?

Richardj

Rodrigo y Gabriela? OK, not always so gentle but top notch flamenco metal!

mellowsun

Bruce Becvar ?

xSkarloey

Pierre Bensusan. Try the Best Of which covers his whole varied career. Altiplanos and Intuite are great records too. Beautiful melodies and really rewarding music.

John Renbourn

Pentangle- has vocals but of a soothing kind.

If you want to get those neural connections firing in a young and tender mind I'd also suggest guitar transcriptions of Bach, plus Joe Pass

RedRabbit

Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night
Eric Roche - With These Hands

richardhomer

Earl Klugh?

BloodEagle

Thanks fellas - looking forward to checking these suggestions out

drwiddly

Michael Hedges, Adrian Legg and John Themis.

Octahedron

Thomas Leeb, Don Ross, Andy McKee, Billy McLaughlin...

Phil_aka_Pip

Gordon Giltrap
John Williams
Kenny Burrell also did some acoustic stuff

and for some tasteful non-screaming/wailing electric stuff try
Kenny Burrell
Barney Kessel

for an interesting diversion try also
Alan Stivell
Davy Spillane - especially his crossover LPs which the purists didn't like

Shark_Eyes

Message to Bears would be my suggestion, probably a little off the mark of what you're looking for:

RichValentine

How about any of Joe Pass' albums?

bigjon

Phil Keaggy's Beyond Nature album

xSkarloey

Another shout for Gordon Giltrap. Lovely stuff.

Rocker

Colin Reid.  Might be hard to find but some nice tracks on the CD

CHRISB50

Check out Erik Mongrain. Insanely talented!

Beautiful melodies, and the guy can play just a little bit.

koneguitarist

Jerry Reed.

digitalkettle

Skarloey said:

Pierre Bensusan. Try the Best Of which covers his whole varied career. Altiplanos and Intuite are great records too. Beautiful melodies and really rewarding music.

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If you want to get those neural connections firing in a young and tender mind I'd also suggest guitar transcriptions of Bach, plus Joe Pass

@Skarloey good calls!

Pierre Bensusan's 'Intuite' album is on another level to anything I've ever heard in that genre (whatever that is).

There are some lovely Bach collections for classical guitar out there. Start at the top: David Russell.

thisisguitar

A little Tommy Emmanuel should fit the bill. I have the 'Only' album… he recorded nearly the whole album in one take!

fretfinder

Another vote for Tommy E. Also Leo Kottke.

SimonC

Anything by Don Peris or The Innocence Mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVidaG1-Oc8

 

I used to use them as bedtime music for the kiddies, there's an album of lullabyes called "Now the Day is Over" which is fantastic.