Guitar Theme

Once considered in its earliest forms a noble instrument, the history of the guitar can be traced back over forty centuries (yes, that’s 4000 years). While we won’t got back quite so far in our exploration, we will explore the popular form of this instrument in song this week. We’re not going after the genius as much as we go after the topic with songs whose theme is that of the guitar. It seems that there has always been a personal connection between the instrument and the player, sometimes as a confidant and others as a foil. Our show will feature yodeling guitars, lonely guitars, Bo’s guitar, long-legged pickers, amigos, and a number of performances about ‘one’s first guitar’. Join Dave Stroud for plenty in a guitar themed journey.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Steve Earle Guitar Town Just an American Boy Disc 1 Amazon
3Walter Hurdt Fiddle And Guitar Running Wild Classic Field Recordings Amazon
4Jimmie Rodgers You And My Old Guitar Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 1] Amazon
5Jorma Kaukonen More Than My Old Guitar River Of Time Amazon
6Jimmy Murphy That First Guitar of Mine 1951-1956 (Warped 5101) Amazon
7The Seldom Scene Grandpa Getcha Guitar Like We Used To Be Amazon
8The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Long Play Collection Amazon
9Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Byron Parker & His Mountaineers Amazon
10Hardrock Gunter Guitar on the Mountain Gonna Rock 'n' Roll, Gonna Dance All Night Amazon
11Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Steel Guitar Rag Legends of Country Music Disc 1 Amazon
12Chet Atkins & His Guitar Pickers Telling' My Troubles to My Old Guitar Chet Atkins Guitar Legend:The RCA Years Amazon
13Frank Crumit Plink Plonki Pluck My Guitar Top 100 Classics – The Very Best of Frank Crumit Amazon
14The Brown Bombers of Swing Guitar Swing If You Take Me Back Amazon
15George Morgan Mr Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man) Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
16Jerry Byrd Hilo Steel Guitar Stars Of The Steel Guitar Amazon
17Les Paul Lonely Guitar (feat. Mary Ford) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
18Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Yodeling Guitar Swingin' On The Strings: The Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Collection Volume 2 Amazon
19Duane Eddy Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar Dance With The Guitar Man Amazon
20Bo Diddley Bo's Guitar Go Bo Diddley Amazon
21Johnny Powers Me and My Rhythm Guitar The Best of Sun Rockabilly, Vol. 2 Amazon
22Johnny Cash I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 Disc 3 Amazon
23Johnny Cash & June Carter Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter Amazon
24Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Greatest Songs Amazon
25Waylon Jennings Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune Clean Shirt Amazon
26Willie Nelson Guitar In the Corner Band of Brothers Amazon
27George Jones Best Guitar Picker The Complete United Artists Solo Singles Amazon
28Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Tulare Dust: Tribute to Merle Haggard Amazon
29Merle Haggard Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
30Freddie King Me And My Guitar Texas Cannonball Amazon
31Tony Rice Me and My Guitar Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection Amazon
32Lucinda Williams Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings World Without Tears Amazon
33Guy Clark The Guitar Somedays the Song Writes You Amazon
34Neil Young This Old Guitar Rare Songs of a Tribute to Hank Amazon