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Links
Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Nickel Creek - Eponymous (Check out their guitarist, Sean Watkins, too.)
Alison Krauss - New Favorite
John Mayer - Room for Squares
David Wilcox - How Did You Find Me Here, Home Again, Big Horizon
Michael Hedges - Watching My Life Go By, Aerial Boundaries, Taproot
The Story - Angel in the House
Jonatha Brooke - Live
Cheryl Wheeler - Sylvia Hotel, Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar
James Taylor - Greatest Hits Vol. 1, New Moon Shine
Joni Mitchell - Blue, Both Sides Now
Various - Big Times in A Small Town (Christine Lavin's 1st annual songwriter's retreat on Martha's Vineyard)
Jazz
Pat Metheny - Absolutely anything. First timers might want to consider new releases like Speaking of Now, Map of the World, or Trio 99-00. Also particularly melodic are Secret Story and the Grammy-winning Like Minds, his duet album with Jimmy Hall, or Beyond the Missouri Sky with Charlie Haden. For the Pat Metheny Group, the live album, Road to You, or the studio records, Speaking of Now, Still Life (talking), or Letter from Home. The better albums for me (because they are melodically experimental and stylistically difficult to categorize) include Imaginary Day, First Circle, Quartet, or anything he has done with saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Pat has won upwards of fifteen Grammies, for good reason!
Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'til Dawn
Tuck and Patti - Anything
Fingerstyle Guitar
Bill Mize - Smokey Mountain Music
Ed Gerhard - House of Guitars, Night Birds, Luna, Christmas Music
David Cullen - Check out Equilibre (Groovemasters with Michael Manring) and Classical Jazz (both new releases), or One Night, One Guitar, Blue Counterpoint
Andrew York - Denouement
William Coulter and Ben Verdery - Songs of Our Ancestors
Children's