Spanish guitar based songs

HyperAquaBlast

So I have had a hankering for some western Spanish guitar music to listen to. You know the kind you can imagine going to a shoot out at high noon or galloping your horse across a desert during a setting sun.

So does anyone know what or who I should for pieces like this? I have one perfect example here which always tends to give me chills when I hear it. Like the big pluses are the guitar and those little clapping sound (maybe tap dancing sound?).

Skip to around 1:30 for what I'm talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wiskH1UE4c&feature=related

elmo

no idea for names, guess the genre your looking for tho is flamenco if thats any help

musanman

Rodrigo y Gabriela are pretty "mainstream" flamenco try some of them.

zhen_rogue

Manuel Barrueco is a classic guitarist, with a spanish flavor to most of his work.
In particular, I love his "Bach Sonatas" album.

Al Di Meola is a latin/jazz fusion guitarist, but his style is definitely something you'll dig. His trio album "friday night in san francisco" with John McLaughlan and Paco de Lucia is to die for.

Raneados

gipsy kings are pretty famous in the "oh shit it's THAT song" vein

cmsamo

RE - Gypsy Kings

Yeah.. I recently started to listen to them. My girlfriend was telling me all about them and it turns out they are French gypsies, born in France, although their parents were Spanish (from Catalonia). I would have said they were south american but there you go....

But I digress; the Gypsy Kings have some very good guitar work.

This page is a list of the current crop of Flamenco artists (stolen from Wikipedia) and it might be a good starting point for research.

Scalfin

I like Flor de Serena:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXNWvHvEtpA

Beasteh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxp7qJieKw

jeddy lee

The Ventures are a surf band that did a buttload of western stuff adapted for electric guitar. Surf music as it is is pretty much electric surf music actually.

benholio

Los Lobos

Sam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVFncQADvc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAHl54V0CU

Scalfin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBXlyOF1TJw

Oh, this is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHpocou9vs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_s3hYfszI

It seems Yasmin Levy is a big deal in flamenco circuits, but her music is mostly vocal with percussion dominating the accompaniment.