Bo sez check these out:

Jazz

(more of a list of artists actually)

• Charlie Parker.
• Oscar Peterson.
• The Quintet of the Hot Club of France or almost anything Stephane Grapelli has done since then.
• Louis Armstrong. Especially the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens.
• Ella Fitzgerald. Lots o' good stuff to choose from. Look for The Birthday Concert or any of her recordings with Joe Pass or any of the Songbook albums (on Verve).
• Stan Getz.
• Herb Ellis. He has a fairly new album called "Texas Swings" which is really nice. Sidemen include Johnny Gimble and Herb Remington. There's a great album of him with Stuff Smith, too.
• Monty Alexander's Triple Treat albums, live with Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, and Johnny Frigo.
• Paul Desmond.
• Just about any of those Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings.
• Jim Hall.
• Ben Webster. I just got a Verve compilation of his stuff that's really good.
• Claude Williams has a couple of good live CDs on Arhoolie.
• I could go on and on.

Fiddle Music

• Poor Richard's Almanac is a great album! Features 17 year old Sam Bush.
• The Championship Years features Mark O'Connor and some of the best fiddle tune playing you'll ever hear.
• It's almost impossible to find but A Jam Session with Benny and Jerry Thomasson on Voyager Records is terrific. Late Bulletin: This album has been re-issued on cassette! Get it. Learn it. Live it.
• Andy McGann's "Tribute to Michael Coleman" album, with Joe Burke and Felix Dolan has been re-issued on CD. It's mostly accordian/fiddle duets, but there are a couple of fiddle-only tracks. It's a great recording,
• See my list of favorite fiddle players and get any and all albums featuring people on that list.

Everything Else

• Nanci Griffith, especially Last of the True Believers and Lonestar State of Mind.
• All those "New Acoustic Music" cats like:
  • Jerry Douglas especially:
    • Under the Wire.
    • Changing Channels.
    • Skip, Hop, and Wobble (with Barenberg and Meyer).
  • Edgar Meyer
  • Sam Bush
  • Bela Fleck (with or without The Flecktones) especially:
    • Drive on Rounder Records.
    • Inroads also on Rounder.
    • Tales from the Acoustic Planet is fantastic!
  • Darol Anger (with the Turtle Island Quartet or Montreux) or PsychograssLate bulletin: Darol has left the TISQ. He's still on all their old recordings, though. Darol's new recording "Heritage" is fantastic.
  • Russ Barenberg
  • David Grisman
• Strength in Numbers, The Telluride Sessions.
• Willie Nelson, especially Over the Rainbow (featuring some very hot fiddling from my hero, Johnny Gimble).
• Merle Haggard, especially his Tribute to Bob Wills and his duet with Willie Nelson.
• Parallel Lines by Andy Irvine and Dick Gaughan.
• Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks. Sure the Acoustic Warriors are good, too. But they didn't record How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away? did they?
• Vince Gill. He writes, he sings, he plays, he hosts award shows with panache. What more do you want?
• The Gipsy Kings.
• Maura O'Connell.
• Robin and Linda Williams.
• George Jones. If you can listen to He Stopped Loving Her Today with dry eyes, see a doctor immediately.
• Tim O'Brien Odd Man In and Rock in my Shoe. Red on Blonde is good, too.
• And Tim's excellent albums with sister Mollie O'Brien.
• Mary Black.
• Paul Brady especially:
  • Welcome Here, Kind Stranger.
  • Hard Station.
• Paul Glasse has two excellent albums out. Check him out on dos Records.
• Here's a group I only know thru the web:Bo's Home Page.

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