 | Truth by Jeff Beck
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.99 Classic, must have CD. Rod Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, and Beck are all in their prime.
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 | Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $5.89 Quite simply the greatest R&R project of all time. Stunning.
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 | Goodbye by Cream
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.43 After Cream, Clapton's career went horribly wrong. All Cream albums are good, this is their best. The live tracks are incendiary.
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 | Live at Leeds by The Who
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.69 Strong contender for the best live R&R project of all time. The long Tommy jams are fun, but the short covers of classics are unbelievable.
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 | The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.88 The absolute apex of this ill-fated band's career. There is enough energy in the room to blow off the ceiling. Those drummers!
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 | Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $12.99 Throw in the Tower of Power horns, Little Feat doing all their best material, an hysterical crowd, Lowell George choking his guitar until it weeps and moans - and you've got a hot concert on your hands.
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 | Second Winter by Johnny Winter
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $13.90 Nobody smokes a guitar quite like Johnny Winter, he's as real as real can get. Make sure to get this 2-CD Legacy Edition which includes concert tracks from the Royal Albert Hall. Too much!
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 | Bare Wires by John Mayall & the Blues Breakers
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.95 Mick Taylor is a frequently overlooked monster - perhaps because of the time he spent in the guitar farm system known as the Rolling Stones. Check him out here, he's surrounded by friends and given plenty of room to stretch. Great CD.
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 | Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.17 Though more composer, arranger, and pain in the neck than guitar monster - Zappa is in rare form on this absolutely fabulous CD. At times you can hardly believe your ears.
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 | Electric Guitarist by John McLaughlin
Buy used from: $2.41 This is a post Mahavishnu Orchestra Mclaughlin. Though less obsessive, possessed, and explosive, it is nonethless compelling. Great mix of side-men. A consumate artist in total control of his instrument.
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 | The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order by Django Reinhardt
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $18.99 Go old school and get a real education, as well as a treat. This guy was the badddest in the land, and there's a case to be made that he's never been surpassed.
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