Music Reccommendations??


Hello all
I have a pretty wide variety of musical tastes, finding good rock and rap is easy, good industrial can be tough at times to find, not too into classical that much.

I really like blues. Recently i got a DVD-Audio recording of Eric Clapton & BB King's "Riding with the king"
Fantastic music, i absolutly fell in love with it.

I'm looking for reccommendations for Blues. What im trying to find is not only good albums, but albums that were recorded very well.
Anybody know any good Harmonica Blues recordings?

Also, another type of music im trying to find, my woman is a massage therapist, and she is looking for new music that would be appropriate in that type of setting.
I heard some Zam-Fir Pan Flute type of stuff at a high end audio store that they were using to audition a rowley amp and some Rel speaks, need to find out what that was.

Anything that sounds real good, and is soothing?
audiophanatik
All the above mentioned Blues recordings are excellent choices. For an album that has elements both of blues and world music and either rocks hard or is soothing depending on the volume try Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu. An excellent mello and hypnotic world music album is Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck Djam lleelii. Yes that is all spelled correctly, holy double vowels. A fascinating recording that I took into my masseuse is Michael Brook Live at the Aquarium, London Zoo 21 May 1992. I am not a huge classical fan myself but Chopin is beautiful mellow music. Try Chopin The Nocturnes, Maria Joao Pires on Deutsche Grammaphon.
If you want harmonica (blues harp), and I mean one of the best...check out The Paul Butterfield Blues Band—East-West is a killer, and can be found on vinyl. They also have a compilation cd titled— An Anthology:The Elecktra Years. The blues harp playing on the live version of "Everything's Gonna Be Alright," will knock your socks off!

For audiophile quality, I enjoy the Blue Rider Trio on Mapleshade Records.

My massage therapist plays Brian Eno and other ambient music artists. I find it quite soothing. Unless it rubs you the wrong way ;-)
Hi, for massage there many titles to choose from.I have a pretty extensive collection of ambient-atmospheric music both electronic and acoustic but for massage native american flute music is great. Titles I would recommend are Marina Raye, "Womanspirit" and "Liquid Silk",John Werner,"The Healing Flute",and Nina Spiro,"Listening Inside".Beautiful stuff and will take you away.I have over 100 native american flute titles and these, I feel, are among the best for massage therapy. Cheers, Lee
Stan Ridgway for Lyrics and sounds.Yanni makes some soothing sounds. Joe Satriani for Guitar work. I am not an ENYA admiree,but soem like that stuff!

Jon-Luc Ponte might be good for Electric Violin stuff.

These are just sme things I have tried as Alternatives to R&R.

You might try AMR to research some other things!
http://www.allmusic.com/