Yeah, there must be players here, too, right?
For me it's "Fat Man in the Bathtub" by Lowell George (guitar for me) and "Airmail Special" by Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman (uke for me).
It's interesting to try to kind of get between the electric guitar and slide parts with an acoustic on LIttle Feat stuff. Lowell goes for this incredible sustain that just isn't there on an acoustic. I loaded up Lowell's Strat with an Alembic Stratoblaster preamp in the mid '70s, and that's the sound you'll hear on the incredible live album, "Waiting for Columbus." "Fat Man" has this great Eb7 down to D7 thing and some really strange timing on chord changes...which is pretty normal for Little Feat...some pretty twisted changes with those guys, and yet with Richie Hayward on drums, it all just sounds so funky...
"Airmail Special" has some of the coolest use of diminished chords you'll ever hear. I'm trying to nail it up to speed on tenor uke... I found a share-ware program that lets you speed up or slow down MP3s without affecting pitch OR change pitch without affecting speed. It gets funky if you slow down much more than 20%, but that puts me in the game.
Now if I can just regain some calluses...
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