Albums with surprisingly good guitar playing

axisus

I'm not thinking of albums with a regular guitar player, but more like albums where they got someone else in who lifted the material. The biggest I can think of is Bowies Let's dance - dance music combined with ripping blues solos from SRV. Any other albums with surprisingly good guitar playing?

stimpsonslostson

Duane Allman for Layla & other assorted love songs. (I'm not normally a Clapton fan but the pair of them play out of their skins on this album).

For a single:

Michael Jackson- Beat It (featuring EVH!) the solo is around the 3.00 mark.

(Honorable mention to Clapton on While My Guitar Gently Weeps).

Rayza1983

Check out anything by Nile Rodgers if you like Lets Dance, he's the master behind that track!

 https://youtu.be/f-S_7X3NEmw

Rayza1983

Nile

https://youtu.be/gF1d227_4ac

bigjon

The two Level 42 albums they made after the Gould brothers left.
- The first one, Staring At The Sun, has Alan Murphy doing the guitar, and is a fantastic album as a result.
- The second one, Guaranteed, is much less successful as an album, but some songs are brilliant, and it has some magnificent playing by Allan Holdsworth on several of the tracks.

Grunfeld

Beth Orton - "Stolen Car"


Dunno who the guitar player is but I love that style.

bingefeller

bigjon said:

The two Level 42 albums they made after the Gould brothers left.
- The first one, Staring At The Sun, has Alan Murphy doing the guitar, and is a fantastic album as a result.
- The second one, Guaranteed, is much less successful as an album, but some songs are brilliant, and it has some magnificent playing by Allan Holdsworth on several of the tracks.

Care to link some of your favourite Level 42 Holdsworth and non-Holdsworth guitar solos @bigjon?  

bigjon

bingefeller;726187" said:

bigjon said:

The two Level 42 albums they made after the Gould brothers left.

- The first one, Staring At The Sun, has Alan Murphy doing the guitar, and is a fantastic album as a result.

- The second one, Guaranteed, is much less successful as an album, but some songs are brilliant, and it has some magnificent playing by Allan Holdsworth on several of the tracks.





Care to link some of your favourite Level 42 Holdsworth and non-Holdsworth guitar solos @bigjon?  

- For Alan Murphy, see the thread at
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/4097/in-memoriam-alan-murphy-died-19-october-1989/p1
- For Holdsworth, here's Kinder Eye by Level 42 (with Allan Holdsworth outro solo at 4:28)

viz

This probably doesn't count because he IS a fantastic guitarist, but any Nik Kershaw album.

bingefeller

viz said:

This probably doesn't count because he IS a fantastic guitarist, but any Nik Kershaw album.

Any examples?

robinbowes

Grunfeld said:

Beth Orton - "Stolen Car"


Dunno who the guitar player is but I love that style.

Ben Harper

Bucket

I think it's James Burton playing this - the guitar part is quite quiet but you can hear it (panned hard right), and it's killer.

For some reason I always hear it more clearly in the second verse - from 1:00.

viz

bingefeller said:

viz said:

This probably doesn't count because he IS a fantastic guitarist, but any Nik Kershaw album.

Any examples?

Try the solo in Roses @bingefeller

bingefeller

viz said:

bingefeller said:

viz said:

This probably doesn't count because he IS a fantastic guitarist, but any Nik Kershaw album.

Any examples?

Try the solo in Roses @bingefeller

Had a listen, good playing but not my kinda thing unfortunately.  

Kebabkid

2 X Jellyfish albums, Crowded House, Squeeze, Police and the debut album by a band called Animal Logic (Stewart Copeland on drums, Stanley Clarke on bass and N.Y. and L.A.session guitarist Michael Thompson all backing a singer-songwriter whose name escapes me). Superb guitar sounds, parts and textures.

Gassage

Here's a left field one

Proclaimers- Sunshine on Leith with the sublime Jerry Donaghue on guitar.

Gassage

Kebabkid said:

2 X Jellyfish albums, Crowded House, Squeeze, Police and the debut album by a band called Animal Logic (Stewart Copeland on drums, Stanley Clarke on bass and N.Y. and L.A.session guitarist Michael Thompson all backing a singer-songwriter whose name escapes me). Superb guitar sounds, parts and textures.

Coss- I would push back on that on the basis I EXPECT Summers and Tilbrook to be brilliant- cos they're just are!

badlydrawnbanjo

Grunfeld;722107" said:

Beth Orton - "Stolen Car"





Dunno who the guitar player is but I love that style.

Loved Beth Orton since she first appeared around 1996/97. Bert Jansch gave her guitar lessons. Can you imagine having guitar lessons from Bert Jansch.

Gassage

Anything by Norah Jones with the incredible Adam Levy. He is superb.

Anything by Lenny Kravitz (who can hardly play a note) when Craig Ross lets rip- he is truly one of my faves ever and the pnly man at 55 that looks cool in leather jeans.

Rocker

Nice playing on the Leonard Cohen 'Live at the O2' album.

JezWynd

 Al Stewart uses good players.

Jimmy Page on Love Chronicles

Tim Renwick on Modern Times