Quote Originally Posted by salad 419
I just wanted some more suggestions for some mellow, acoustic-type stuff.
Here's a quick couple, maybe slightly off the path you're on, but both very nice acoustic recordings, and both big growers for me

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Haunting and quiet and beautiful, she and her husband/partner David Rawlings made this modern classic in the loosely defined country-folk genre, and it's very nice sounding too. Not really quite what I call country, but recorded simply, live in the studio with just a couple of Neumann mikes, Gillian and David, banjo and vintage acoustic guitars, and a lot of good music. Gillian describes the album, "As opposed to little tiny folk songs, they're really tiny rock songs performed in an acoustic setting. In our heads we went electric without changing instruments."

Nina Nastasia - Dogs
Quite a debut. Just on the tiny Socialist Records label, and went out of print almost as soon as it was released back in 1999 or 2000. So became kind of a mystery after she became more well known with the release of the acclaimed The Blackened Air on Touch and Go records. But Touch and Go reissued it a couple years later, and I then picked up a used copy, and it is a bit less eclectic and not as folky as the second, nor as quietly introspective as the third, but still very loveable. In some ways I think it might be her best. A bit more jazzy at times. The acoustics are really nice in all of them, with lots of room for the natural dynamics of the musical instuments to live and breathe. She's a big favorite of Steve Albini, so he does a great job recording, especially the cello and acoustic bass. Love the musical saw too. Nice touch. And Albini works with Steve Rooke to master them at Abbey Road, just like the very nice Electrelane records he does that I also love. Great team.