5 Cool Albums your non-guitarist friends don't have

We guitarists listen to alot of bands/artists that average Joe consumer probaly doesn't have or apreciate, let's face it, the man on the street never heard of Vai, Malmsteen, Lane,etc... What, in your opinion, are 5 cool albums most normal folk probaly have never heard, that you think are cool? Here's my five non-typical picks
1. Splendid- Larry Coryell&Phillip Catherine
2. Hot Pickups- Arlen Roth
3. Waitress in a Donut Shoppe- Maria Mulduar( Amos Garrett, Ry Cooder, David Lindley on guitars)
4. Captured- Johhny Winter ( Never underestimate a guitar playing albino from Texas)
5. Return of the Hellcasters
What are your 5?

Hermit by Ron THAL,
man that guy is the songwriter of the century!!

Anything by Allan HOLDSWORTH
Even guitarists have never heard him, but dang!!!!!! have a listen.... http://www.gnarlygeezer.com

Live in San Francisco the Guitar trio
That album rocks, shreds, fires, goooooooooooooooooood, I wan't to play like them, only faster... Anyone can listen to it too!!

Liquid Tension Experiment is one. Most of the stuff on that album would probably be considered noises by non-guitarists/musicians. It takes a "refined" ear to appreciate it.

You know what? When I want to heard great guitar music I never turn to Malmsteen, Vai or satriani. I always put on some Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, SRV.

It strange cause I mostly listen to Powermetal. Bands like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sonata Artica. For me good guitar music is almost always blues/rock oriented.

go figure...

Venus Isle - Eric Johnson
will be my favorite most of my friends never heard of him
and when i played it to them they got BORED :mad:

One album that went just about all over the world with me was Jackson Brown's Running on Empty, not a big time guitar album, but David Lindley's lap steel playing just communicates something I love to hear, I should have put it in my original post

1. Reckoning by the Grateful Dead
2. American Beauty by the Grateful Dead
3. Europe '72 by the Grateful Dead
4. Live/Dead by the Grateful Dead
5. DeadSet by the Grateful Dead

:)