 | Bird in a House by Railroad Earth
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.98 These guys are amazing song writters, great lyrics and melodies. Go see them live or check out shows at www.archive.org
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 | The Black Bear Sessions by Railroad Earth
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.90 Like Grateful Dead with bluegrass instruments!
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 | The Complete Studio Recordings Mississippi John Hurt by Mississippi John Hurt
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $15.84 You will recognize the soft, melodic guitar playing and vocals here. This guy was a big influence on Jerry and Jorma Kaukonen. Ever heard of Casey Jones or Stagger Lee? Louis Collins?
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 | A Love Surreal
Buy used from: $36.00 These guys began as a Dead cover band, both the guitarist and key player have been in Phil & Friends, the key player also played with the other ones and "the Dead"
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 | Shaking Off the Weirdness
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.47 Unbelievalby tight, acoustic album.
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 | In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.88 Like a jazz waterfall.
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 | Warts and All, Vol. 2 by moe.
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.98 If more recent jambands havent caught you, yea phish isnt for all deadheads, moe. might. This is live, like it should be.
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 | Live Art by Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.99 The best banjo player + possibly the best bass player + one of the best mandolin players as a geust = AMAZING LIVE MUSIC.
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 | Being There by Wilco
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.65 ALL wilco is amazing, but check this out first and work your way backwards or forwards.
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 | Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.95 Woody Guthrie lyrics given to wilco and billy bragg by Guthrie's daughter.
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 | Mermaid Avenue Vol. II by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.99 Remember the Mountain Bed is THE most beautiful lyric ever written. I promiss you will dig this, tears man.
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 | A Go Go by John Scofield
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $1.97 John Scofield = Medeski Martin and Wood = GROOVE
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 | An Anthology by Duane Allman
Buy new: $14.97 / Used from: $11.75 Duane was more than just and Allman Brother.
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 | Quah by Jorma Kaukonen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $9.10 Just beautiful.
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 | Mountain Tracks: Volume 1
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.65 These guys do the bluegrass thing in a very jammy style, but more traditional than say Railroad Earth or String Cheese Incident ever did. I dont own this, but its live, so its good.
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 | Fruit Tree by Nick Drake
Buy used from: $27.00 This music is so moving, so honest. Each album has 10 or so songs, and each under 35-40 minutes so buying them all at once is worth it. This guy is the best relativly unknown song writer there is.
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 | Billy Breathes by Phish
Buy used from: $5.99 If nothing else ever caught you, give this a try, you still may not like anything else, but any fan of the beatles or dead could find beauty in this perfect studio album.
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 | XO by Elliott Smith
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.94 Beautiful melodies, harmonies and lyrics. Often very dark, but very fresh and familiar at the same time. A very beatle-esque album. This is one of my all time favorites.
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 | Light as a Feather by Chick Corea and Return to Forever
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.58 Chick Corea. SO GOOD. Spain is mind meltingly amazing. If you like Pat Metheney Group this was obviously a HUGE influence.
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 | Sailing to Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.85 This is such a good album by Direstraits guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, very traditional at times. "Sailing to Phili" w/ James Taylor is magic.
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 | Reads on the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy used from: $4.43 On The Road was Jerry & the gangs bible back in the 60's. Read the book, this is really fun to zone to though.
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 | About Time by Steve Winwood
Buy used from: $5.25 Steve still has it together. Live and in ths studio, heavy percussion and organ on this album. groovin.
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 | Blind Faith (Deluxe Edition) by Blind Faith
Buy used from: $49.93 Windwood, Clapton, Ginger Baker, and ahh....a bass player thats great too. Very jammed, youll dig it.
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 | Harvest Moon by Neil Young
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.29 This is possibly the best album ever done so late in an artists career. The harmonies are etheral as hell making it a beautiful album to dream by.
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 | Not for Kids Only by Jerry Garcia
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.29 For you AND your kids. Start them early!
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