>Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli - the Hot Jazz Club stuff >Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond >Bill Evans – it doesn’t get any better than that >Ahmad Jamal >Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert >Duke Ellington ( with props to Billy Strayhorn for Lush Life ) > especially The Mooch and Black and Tan Fantasy >Gershwin >Cole Porter >Lambert, Hendricks and Ross >Puccini – everything – but Nessun Dorma makes me cry >Mascagni - The Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticanna >Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez >All Villa Lobos but especially the 12 studies for solo guitar >Albeniz >Piazzolla >Klezmer music >Great Dixieland ( American Klezmer <s> ) > >Dave Grisman, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, Rob Wasserman, Daryl Anger >and every incarnation of the David Grisman Quintet/Quartet > >Bela Fleck and anybody who ever was a Flecktone > >Things I never get tired of : > > Dark Side of the Moon > Wish you were here > Hotel California > Desperado > Red Octopus > Aqualung > 4 Way Street – CSN&Y > Kind of Blue – Miles Davis et al > W.S. Walcott Medicine Show – The Band > Soundtrack from The Last Waltz > (Winterland,Thanksgiving, 1976 – I still have my ticket stubs ) > Clapton – Layla ( acoustic ) > Professor Longhair > Dr. John – the New Orleans piano stuff only > >Isley Brothers - Shout >Talking Heads - Slippery People >Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit >Joe Zawinul - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy >Matt Dennis - Angel Eyes >Skynrd – The Smell >Billy Joel - Keepin' the Faith >Monte Alexander – Battlehymn of the Republic >Al Cooper, Mike Bloomfield – Season of the Witch ( from Super Sessions) >Commander Cody – Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar >Jerusalem (Elgar version – still can’t get through it without choking up ) > >The Four Tops >Dire Straits >The Nylons >Heart > Magic Man > White Lightning and Wine > >Simon and Garfunkel > >Leonard Cohen - especially > Sisters of Mercy > The Master Song > Suzanne > Dress Rehearsal Rag > First we take Manhatten > >The JJ Cale cover of Cohen’s Hallelujah >Little Feat – Dixie Chicken and Weed, Whites and Wine >The Gene Krupa drum solo on Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing >Neal Diamond – Cracklin’ Rose ( you had to be in Bangkok then ) >Stones – Paint it Black, Jumpin’ Jack Flash ( helicopters ... ) >Hendricks – All along the Watchtower >Dylan > Positively Fourth St. > Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door. > It ain’t me babe > >Outsiders – Time won’t let me >Zombies - She’s not there >Del Shannon – Runaround Sue >Wilson Pickett >Ottis Reading >Janis >Maria Muldaur – both then and now – she’s still got it > >