à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la première partie - dark was the night

- robbie basho - the seal of the blue lotus - takoma - 1965
- robbie basho - the grail and the lotus - takoma - 1966
- robbie basho - basho sings! - takoma - 1967
- robbie basho - the falconer’s arm, volumes 1 & 2 - takoma - 1967
- robbie basho - venus in cancer - blue thumb - 1969
- robbie basho - song of the stallion - takoma - 1971
- robbie basho - visions of the country - windham hill - 1978

- the birdtree - orchards & caravans - last visible dog
- the ivytree - winged leaves - catsup plate - 2004

- sir richard bishop - salvador kali - revenant - 1998
- sir richard bishop - plays sun city girls - no-fi - 2005
- sir richard bishop - vault volumes 1-3 - s/r - 2006
- sir richard bishop - all strung out - s/r - 2006
- sir richard bishop - fingering the devil - latitudes - 2006

- james blackshaw - lost prayers and motionless dances - tompkins square - 2004/2008
- james blackshaw - sunshine - tomkins square - 2005/2008
- james blackshaw - walking into sleep - göteberg, 27,05,06 - kning disk - 2006
- james blackshaw - o true believers - important records - 2006
- james blackshaw - the cloud of unknowing - tompkins square - 2007
- james blackshaw - litany of echoes - tompkins square - 2008

- kath bloom - come here
- kath bloom & loren mazzacane connors - 1981-1984 - megalon records - 2000
- kath bloom & loren mazzacane connors - sing the children over - ambiguous - 1982
- kath bloom - terror - chapter music - 2008
- bill callahan - the breeze/my baby cries from loving takes this course - a tribute to the songs of kath bloom - chapter music - 2009

- sandy bull - fantasias for guitar & banjo - vanguard - 1963
- sandy bull - inventions - vanguard - 1964
- sandy bull - e plurubus unum - vanguard - 1968

- bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle - drag city - 2009


- loren chasse - works (especially amazing live performance with steve roden using large metal fan-like rotating device to drone guitar, some of the best guitar playing i have ever seen)

- clear horizon - clear horizon - kranky - 2003

- bon iver - for emma, forever ago - jagjaguwar/4ad - 2008
- bon iver - blood bank - jagjaguwar - 2009
- bon iver - brackett, wi + big red machine - from dark was the night - 4ad - 2009
- bon iver - the park (live on triple j) - 2009

- boris - pink - diwphalanx records - 2005 (mellow tracks)
- boris - sound track from film "mabuta no ura" - essence music - 2005 (mellow tracks)
- boris with michio kurihara - rainbow - drag city - 2007 (mellow tracks)
- boris - smile - diwphalanx records - 2008 (mellow tracks)

- john fahey - fonotone recordings 1958-1962 - fonotone records
- john fahey - death chants, breakdowns, and military waltzes - takoma - 1963/1967
both rereleased by fantasy in 1998
- john fahey - red cross (recorded 2000-2001) - revenant - 2003

- jackson c. frank - blues run the game - castle music - 1965/2003

- chico hamilton - the original ellington suite with eric dolphy - pacific jazz - 1958
- chico hamilton - the complete pacific jazz recordings of the chico hamilton quintet - mosaic records - 1997
especially the track blue sands, found also in the film jazz on a summer's day - 1969

- homegas - homegas (produced by john fahey) - takoma - 1970

- giuseppe ielasi - aix - 12k - 2009 (track 9)

- bert jansch - bert jansch - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - it don't bother me - transatlantic - 1965
- bert jansch - jack orion - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch and john renbourn - bert and john - transatlantic - 1966
- bert jansch - nicola - transatlantic - 1967
- bert jansch - birthday blues - transatlantic - 1969
- bert jansch - rosemary lane - transatlantic - 1971
- bert jansch - l.a. turnaround - charisma - 1974

- blind willie johnson - dark was the night - 1928
- ry cooder - dark was the night - from paris texas - warner bros - 1990
- kronos quartet - dark was the night - from dark was the night - 4ad - 2009

- leo kottke - 6 and 12 string guitar - takoma - 1969

- bruce langhorne - the hired hand - blastfirstpetite - 1971/2005/2007

- gordon lightfoot - complete greatest hits - rhino entertainment company - 2002

- willie nelson - country willie - his own songs - rca - 1965
- willie nelson - yesterday's wine - justice records - 1971
- willie nelson - shotgun willie - atlantic - 1973
- willie nelson - phases and stages - atlantic - 1974
- willie nelson - red headed stranger - columbia - 1975
- willie nelson - troublemaker - columbia - 1976
- willie nelson - stardust - columbia - 1977
- willie nelson - crazy: the demo sessions - sugar hill - 2003
- willie nelson - the ghost, part one through three - masked weasel - 2005
- willie nelson - he was a friend of mine - from brokeback mountain - 2005

- the north sea & rameses iii - night of the ankou - type recordings - 2006

- pentangle (bert jansch, john renbourn) - the pentangle - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - sweet child - transatlantic records - 1968
- pentangle - basket of light - transatlantic records - 1969
- pentangle - cruel sister - transatlantic records - 1970
- pentangle - reflection - transatlantic records - 1971
- pentangle - solomon's seal - reprise records - 1972
- pentangle - lost broadcasts: 1968-1972 - hux records - 2004
- pentangle - the time has come: 1967-1973 - sanctuary records - 2007

- stefano pilia - action silence prayer - die schachtel - 2007


- popol vuh (guitar daniel fichelscher) - aguirre - spv recordings - 1972/2004
- popol vuh - nosferatu: the vampyre - spv recordings - 1978/2004
- popol vuh - sei still, wisse ich bin - spv recordings - 1981/2006
- popol vuh - fitzcarraldo - spv recordings - 1982/2005
- popol vuh - letzte tage - letzte nächte - spalax music - 1992
- popol vuh - perlenklänge – the best of popol vuh - ohr - 1992

- django reinhardt - django reinhardt & stephane grappelly with the hot club of france: souvenirs - decca - 1988
- django reinhardt - the complete django reinhardt hmv sessions - mosaic records - 1999
- django reinhardt - djangology 10cd set - membran music ltd. - 2005

- steve roden - works

- seaworthy - 1897 - 12k - 2009

- slowdive - just for a day - castle music - 1991/2005

- göran söllscher - bach: cello suites (transcriptions for guitar)

- sons of the pioneers (leonard slye, karl farr, doye o'dell, roy lanham, etc.) - wagons west (1945-1954) - bear family - 1996

- sssd - (taku sugimoto, martin siewert, burkhard stangl, werner dafeldecker) - home - grob - 2002

- sunn o))) & boris - altar - southern lord/inoxia records - 2006/2007

- taku sugimoto - opposite - hat hut records - 1998

- souled american - notes campfire - moll tonträger - 1996
- scott tuma - hard again - truckstop - 2001
- scott tuma - the river 1 2 3 4 - truckstop - 2003
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis - 2008

- peter walker - rainy day raga - vanguard - 1967
- peter walker - second poem to karmela or gypsies are important - vanguard - 1969
- peter walker - long lost tapes 1970 - tomkins square - 2009
- peter walker - echo of my soul - tompkins square - 2008

- peter wright - pariahs sing om: collected drone poems 2000-2003 - last visible dog - 2003
- peter wright - distant bombs - last visible dog - 2004
- peter wright - desolation beauty violence - ikuisuus - 2005
- peter wright - yellow horizon - pseudoarcana - 2005
- peter wright - unvarnished, untreated, unzipped - the seedy r! - 2006
- peter wright - red lion - digitalis recordings - 2006
- peter wright - at last a new dawn - students of decay - 2007


- neil young - neil young (with ry cooder) - reprise - 1968
- neil young - everybody knows this is nowhere - reprise - 1969
- neil young - after the gold rush - reprise - 1970
- neil young - harvest - reprise - 1972
- neil young - journey through the past soundtrack - reprise - 1972
- neil young - time fades away (live) - reprise - 1973
- neil young - on the beach - reprise - 1974
- neil young - tonight's the night - reprise - 1975
- neil young - zuma - reprise - 1975
- the stills-young band - long may you run - reprise - 1976
- neil young - american stars 'n bars (includes will to love + like a hurricane) - reprise - 1977
- neil young - chrome dreams (unreleased) - 1977
- neil young - decade - reprise - 1977
- neil young - comes a time - reprise - 1978
- neil young - rust never sleeps - reprise - 1979
- neil young - live rust - reprise - 1979
- neil young - hawks & doves - reprise - 1980
- neil young - arc & weld - reprise - 1991
- neil young - dead man soundtrack - vapor - 1996
- neil young - live at the fillmore east 1970 - reprise - 2006
- neil young - live at massey hall 1971 - reprise - 2007

- richard youngs - sapphie - oblique - 1998
- richard youngs - airs of the ear - jagjaguwar - 2003
- richard youngs - the naive shaman - jagjaguwar - 2005

- townes van zandt - for the sake of the song - poppy, tomato - 1968
- townes van zandt - our mother the mountain - tomato - 1969
- townes van zandt - townes van zandt - poppy, tomato - 1969
- townes van zandt - delta momma blues - tomato - 1971
- townes van zandt - high, low and in between - rhino, tomato - 1972
- townes van zandt - the late great townes van zandt - tomato - 1972
- townes van zandt - a gentle evening with townes van zandt live 1969- dualtone music group - 2002
- townes van zandt - great american music hall, san francisco - 1995

- various - wooden guitar - locust music - 2003
with jack rose, steffen basho-junghans, tetuzi akiyama, sir richard bishop

(some guitar music i have been
surrounding myself and young gossamer with lately)
((as always, thanks to d. granahan and the lighttowlers for many suggestions,
and all the great music sites/blogs out there for too many ideas))
(((my baby cries when she's tired, my puppy howls with the moon
i think i know the dark as well as you do, i think i know it very well)))