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While I have seen in these posts the names of lots of artists I love, I wouldn't say they are all necessarily good examples of how to record folk/acoustic music. I guess we all have our own ideas of what falls within certain genre. No harm in that.
I think Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (initially produced by T-Bone Burnett, then later self-produced) are great examples of how one should record sparsely arranged acoustic music. Man, on lots of those tracks, it's just the two of them and their guitars, and it sounds like Heaven. We could all learn something from that.
Speaking of T-Bone, the Oh Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack is a great primer on how one should record old-time music. Absolutely stunning.
For a larger ensemble (can you use that word for folk music?), I really like how Tim O'Brien's recordings sound. There's one in particular that has always stood out to me: Rock in My Shoe. I think Jerry Douglas produced that one. Pop music on acoustic instruments, with a little tip of the hat to bluegrass. Very cool.
While on the Jerry Douglas connection, any Allison Krauss recordings with Jerry in the band sound wonderful. Hard to beat.
In general, those Newgrass types do a great job of capturing the tone of their instruments. Check out Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Tony Rice, Sam Bush, etc.
Dawg music sounds really good, too.
Looking at my list, I think I've been hanging around too many aging hippies. <G>
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