Great acoustic guitar on classic rock records

XTC "Love on a Farm Boy's Wages" among many others...

 

This gem by The Who:

 

I've got a real thing for arrangements that combine prominent acoustic guitar and raunchy electric guitar. My favorite examples include "Carry On Til Tomorrow" by Badfinger. Extra points earned for the use of a strings orchestra!:



Bowie did it real horrorshow with "Starman", "Moonage Daydream" and elsewhere on the Ziggy Stardust album.

Another favorite (minus the strings) is "Going Mobile" by The Who. Pete could make an acoustic guitar sound just as aggressive as an electric!

 

Jim Cregan on (Come up and see me) Make Me Smile and on I Was Only Joking.

 

After over 20 years I thinks it's safe to start thinking about this album
as "Classic Rock".

 

"King of America" is also a wonderful album for acoustic guitar sounds.

 

From 1992. Clapton was fresh out of rehab. Clean and sober for the first time in years. Realized he still had the talent. The only Unplugged album I ever bothered to buy.

 

Desolation Row (Charley McCoy on Highway 61 Revisited)

 

Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield.........probably my favorite acoustic guitar on a rock recording.

 

tull - aqualung (song and album)
badfinger - straight up
beatles - help, rubber soul, white album
petty - wildflowers
neil - after the gold rush, harvest, on the beach, freedom

 

Didja know: Charlie Chin from Cat Mother was the banjo player on Bluebird. That's a great part too.

 

The Who-Who's Next for a Classic Rock masterpiece has more acoustic guitar on there than one would think being such a "Rockin' album?

IF I'm understanding this correctly the OP seems to indicate "Classic ROCK ' albums?

 

Actually Ten Years Later- A Space In Time (that this song comes from)has a lot of acoustic guitar through out it while being a "Rockin'" guitar album.

AGAIN,IF I'm understanding this correctly the OP seems to indicate "Classic ROCK ' albums?

 

James Gang-Rides Again falls into this category too

As I'm trying to match the OP's examples of Albums like LZ III being Classic ROCKIN" & acoustic blending.Hopefully doing it right...

 

I got this one at a thrift store with a bunch of others. It took me a while to figure out that it was Hot Tuna. That is some hard script to read.

 

IMO, it doesn't get any better.

 

Love the acoustic intro and solo in this song:

 

Loads of Steve Howe moments:

 

Love Pete Townshend's acoustic work. Love the way he layers acoustic guitars, and other times uses them to drive the song.

 

Frampton, whether with Humble Pie or as a solo artist, has great and performed some fantastic acoustic songs. Here is one of my favorites, from an early Humble Pie album:

 

John Fogerty - Lodi Acoustic Live

 

Cat Stevens-Mona Bone Jakon
Jethro Tull-Living In The Past
Led Zeppelin-III
Mike Keneally-Wooden Smoke
John Martyn-Bless The Weather, Inside Out, Solid Air, Sunday's Child

 

Learning to play acoustic guitar at the moment, so this old thread caught my attention. A few I thought of:

Exile on Main Street - Stones
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Comes a Time - Neil Young

 

Can we call 1994 Classic now ?