 | Ah Via Musicom by Eric Johnson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.97 The ultimate album by the consumate master... "Desert Rose" has the BIGGEST fast notes anywhere.
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 | Elegant Gypsy by Al Di Meola
Buy used from: $2.77 Al DiMeola. 'Nuff said. "Mediterranean Sundance" is the single best example of flamenco-jazz fusion by any guitarist.
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 | Guitar Legend: The RCA Years by Chet Atkins
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.63 Chet Atkins, "Mr. Guitar" exemplified professional musicianship... as a recording artst, record producer, educator and studio exec, he left his mark all over 20th century American music
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 | Christopher Parkening plays Bach
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.98 Parkening interprets Bach with surgical precision and artistic elegance... a must in any guitarist collection
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 | Van Halen by Van Halen
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.34 This is the album that started it all... the album that launched a million 15 year-old boys' dreams... the album that sold a million Kramer guitars
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 | Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.99 Jimi Hendrix. The single most influential rock guitarist ever. This is his best work.
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 | Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.79 Clapton... The "God" of 60s graffiti and the only of the "Big Three" to remain relevant to this day.
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 | Blow by Blow by Jeff Beck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.49 Beck at his best... one of the albums to define the term "Rock Guitarist".
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 | 6 and 12 String Guitar by Leo Kottke
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.26 Folksy insanity. THE record that launched a million fingerpickers. Kottke shines like few others, before or since. This 1969 release is as fresh today as it was 35 years ago.
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 | In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.91 Stevie Ray Vaughn energized the blues and left us too soon... "In Step" displays some of his best work, full of emotion, energy and soul.
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 | High Tension Wires by Steve Morse
Buy used from: $13.00 Steve Morse's first truly solo album, "High Tension Wires" is an example of the musicality possible only in the hands of a gifted technician.
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 | Metal Fatigue by Allan Holdsworth
Buy used from: $27.16 Alan Holdsworth is the master of controlled chaos and the proud owner of the best fretting hand in the world of guitar.
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 | Virtuoso (20 Bit Mastering) by Joe Pass
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.49 Joe Pass played music that hurt... technically that is... ever try to play this stuff? Impossible.
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 | Live on the Double Planet by Michael Hedges
Buy used from: $2.33 Guitarists are notoriously beautiful and odd... Michael Hedges was both... that, and with a style all his own. We will never hear a Hedges concert again... so buy this disc now.
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 | The Joshua Tree by U2
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.64 The Edge is the best pop guitarist of his generation. "The Joshua Tree" is the shining example of his richly textured stylings.
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 | Crash by Dave Matthews Band
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.02 What the hell is this album doing here? Well, Dave Mathews is a master of pop/rock rythmns... listen with an open mind.
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 | Powers of Ten Live! by Shawn Lane
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $75.48 Shawn Lane WAS THE GREATEST "UNKNOWN" GUITARIST... PERIOD. Don't let anyone tell you different... no one can touch Shawn Lane for pure technical prowess.
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 | Escape From Hollywood by The Hellecasters
Buy used from: $9.93 Telecasters... they're not just for chickin' pickin' anymore.
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 | Hot Rod Guitar: The Danny Gatton Anthology by Danny Gatton
Buy used from: $28.89 Well, if anyone could challenge Shawn Lane for the "best unknown" title, it was Danny Gatton... totally different style, but just as masterful... my fingers start to bleed just listening to this.
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![Live at Bourbon Street [2-CD Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21S1EV6BMQL._SL75_.jpg) | Live at Bourbon Street [2-CD Set] by Lenny Breau
Buy used from: $49.16 Lenny Breau was another of the masterful unknowns... although in the right circles he is properly known as a pioneer, virtuoso and inspiration.
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 | Mind's Eye by Vinnie Moore
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.71 I had to include one "Neo classical metal" guitarist in this list... Vinnie Moore was one of the best, and "Mind's Eye" is an excellent example of how this speedy music could be beautiful.
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 | Monsters & Robots by Buckethead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.98 Buckethead. Any questions? What was that I was saying about beutiful and odd? This music is as far from everything else as music can be.
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