Best Guitar CD Recording

If you like acoustic blues, try Catfish Keith (http://soli.inav.net/~catfishk/).
He is very, very good and his National is very well recorded.

Check out Johnny A: "Get Inside" and "Sometime Tuesday Morning." Excellent Boston-area guitar player. Both discs are great and very well-recorded.

On my system, one of the top sounding recordings period is the FIM "Flamenco Passion" by Gino d"auri mentioned above.

Also:

"300 Years of Guitar Masterpieces" by Manuel Barrueco
"58957: Bluegrass Guitar" by Tony Rice
"6 and 12 String Guitars" by Leo Kottke
"An evening with International Guitar Night" a compilation of artists
"The Goldberg Variations" by Bach and played by Kurt Rodarmer
"Classic Williams: Romance of the Guitar" by John Williams
"Fingerdance" by Billy McLaughlin
"Bach Lute Suites" by Paul Galbraith
"El Diablo Suelto - Guitar Music of Venezuela" by John Williams
"Espana" by Segovia
"Guitar Bones" and "Guitars and Other Cathedrals" by Adrian Legg
"Guitar Recital" by Jason Vieaux
"Guitares du Bresil" by Paulo Bellinati
"Moe'uhane Kika - Tales from the Dream Guitar" by Keola Beamer

Don't get me started - I love this stuff-

I'd recommend checking out Ray Montford.
http://www.raymontford.com/
The Cd Many Roads received support by Paradigm Reference Speakers.

Don't know if you prefer acoustic or what, but you've already gotten some fine suggestions there. Gotta agree with practically anything Fahey, Kottke, Hedges(RIP), Cooder, some selected Bromberg (if you're OK w/ those vocals ;~), etc. Maybe check out Hawaiian Slack-key or Calcutta Slide, Doc Watson, Grisman/Garcia, Adrian Legg, Neal Schon, Atkins and Knofler. And the various samplers (Narada, Windham Hill Guitar Sampler or Touch, etc.) are consistently interesting and very good. I think my bro-in-law had something called Acoustic Heart(? - I guess that's the title) that was really decent. Shoot - there's just gazillions of good stuff (and never enough time).

And Zappa. Do we go Electric here? Dang - that's a whole 'nother book. Maybe it's time to start your "guitar CD trust fund", 'cause you could need one...