Here a list of guitar based music I like in no order of preference
Al Di Meola John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia- Friday Night In San Francisco Live. This a great acoustic guitar based What comes cross is the joy each musician has when playing with each other and the way the Audience responds to each moment. The playing is superb. If you can get it on vinyl the recording quality is excellent
Birelli Lagrene and Vic Juris- Live Two great players The sense of improvisation fun and telepathic understanding is outstanding yet again get it on vinyl if you can find it but it is a lot easier to get on CD
Strunz and Farah- Live These two players have recorded a lot of albums the play Flemenco music but mix it up with a lot of Jazz influences yet again the playing is of the highest order and has a sense of passion
Stefanovski and Tadic - Krushevo Music from the Balkans So the music has exotic eastern European music that is beautiful to hear Yet again the musicianship is of the highest order and if you like Friday Night in San Fran..... then you should enjoy this too
Buckethead -Colma: Buckethead is usually known for a more his Shred approach which is often quite outside in its nature. On this album he shows another side it could almost be New Age in nature the music is often reflective and at time haunting
Peter Wolpl- Mr Fudge Speaks Peter is a underrated player with great phrasing. When listening to music I usually can hear where they are going Peter someone brings new possibilities but yet makes everything fits. Usually when a player does this it can be hard to listen too, with this album it is never like that
Kazumi Watanbe- Spice of Life too Another fusion album melodic but great playing
Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane- Temporal Analogues of Paradise: For me one of my favourite fusion albums of all times. A telepathic understanding of each other each musician is totally in tune with each other
Alan Holdsworth Secrets I usually prefer when he is playing with a band than his solo stuff a good example of this would be K2 Summit but this is one of his accessible albums still not easy listening but captures why he is highly regarded
Al Di Meola is one of my favourite fusion players but for me hard to find one album that really does it all the way through for me, perhaps Live Tour De Force or Casino but most of his albums are worth getting
Jeff Beck For me he is a master of phrasing and has got better as he got older perhaps a good place to start is Guitar Shop but also check out the live DVD at Ronnie Scotts to get a understanding of way he is so rated
I love the first two Hendrix albums as they are more direct
UFO- Strangers In The Night
Michael Hedges- Aerial Boundaries: Its a shame this album gets put in as new age as for better or worse I usually associate that form of music as lacking passion and creativity this album lacks none of that yet has great melodies
Stevie Ray Vaughan- The Sky is Crying Proves Stevie is more than a Blues player shows some nice Wes influnces
Buddy Guy- Live at the Checkerboard Just very raw Buddy
Helecasters The Return of the Hellecasters Just great playing mixescountry with swing with rock with......... Generally I cannot handle country music but this is just a great listen
Birelli Lagrene- Inferno This is a more electric affair but has great melodies
If u want more added I will but a good selection to start off with