ILX Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday (new post-Fahey folk for ppl posting in Takoma/Tompkins Square threads Pt II)

I (should) hesitate to post right after first listens, but Marisa Anderson's Traditional and Public Domain Songs(Mississippi Records, 11/17) is such an onslaught, and even the shortest tracks stay under my skin----a bit overwhelming initially, so ear-li in the mor-ning, had to pace my self---so it's finger-and-sometimes-thumbipicking, tending to de- and reconstruct familiar songs, frequently with levels and degrees of distorted light---no pedals, or so it seems; there's at least the illusion of a electronic-organic effect, when you use these settings or just this kind of 0-budget guitar and amp, like from a 1965 yard sale--then again: 0 distortion on some tracks, just this Pop Staples shadow----or putting it all together, for instance on a slithering, psychedelic "Battle Hymn of the Republic"---or Pops in a sinister mood, for "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye." (But there's a range of emotional nuances, implications, overall.)
A single departure from the main vine: "Bella Ciao", which also has a shadow but I would like to hear her do more with the Italian, Hispanic, Slavic chapters of the American Songbook, so hoping for a Vol. 2.
But this album may itself be a single exception; dunno her previous, but press sheet mentions:
...The Golden Hour followed by Mercury (2013) and Into The Light (2016). She is in demand as a collaborator and composer, contributing to recent recordings by Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux among others, as well as creating music for short films and soundtracks.

Anderson tours extensively throughout Europe and North America.,,Pitchfork named Anderson’s 2015 split LP with Tashi Dorji one of the top experimental records of the year. Recent festival appearances include Le Guess Who, Moog Fest, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival. All Euro dates this fall, so far.
Nov. 17, save the date.

is that a new release? i thought i saw a similar record on her bandcamp at one point

yeah, it's the one that came out on grapefruit in 2014-ish. I guess that's out of print and she's expanded it a bit. definitely a killer record!

She is so damn good. Just a joy to listen to. Just jammed that Footfalls side (split with T. Dorji) last week.

can't remember if this showed up on a fahey thread but

John Fahey @ Memphis Country Blues Festival, 1969. @dying4badmusic pic.twitter.com/ZgIFbcqOu8

— Death Is Not The End (@deathisnot) October 17, 2017

so classic, just excited that this footage is seemingly out there somewhere, hopefully we get to see the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LLlfhquKw

nice

new alexander LP pre-order up, he's the sleeper hit of 2017 IMO

https://www.davidalexanderguitars.com/

omg the donkeys

dbh is the best

https://soundcloud.com/zach-coombs-2/megrez

this is gorgeous too

good lookin out on the alexander, saw jeff conklin on FB now playing had a copy

aw yeah, i've been loving that alexander stuff.
new dbh is nice, a lotta good left turns.
this is good too, more atmospheric action than fingerpicky, but I think you guys'll dig. Angel Olsen cameo, too: https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-river-long-enough-doesnt-contain-a-bend-2

this is gonna be some epic drift if you are in the area...

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22815141_10212519992388931_4431417308125084958_n.jpg?oh=b07d7828420f48d297b06552b1f1175a&oe=5A68464A

frozen corn is chris carlton, josh burkett, and tony pasquarosa olde-tyme action. they have a new album out on feeding tube.

oo new High aura'd, thanks for the share! I'm so jealous of all those MV-related Root Cellar shows, they've all looked so great.

Tony is such a nice guy. I'll check out ...Frozen Corn

Frozen Corn, Wet Tuna, Sweet Apple ...

Sounds like a lunch special at a diner

new dbh album scheduled for late november btw

Weeping Bong Band is kinda the best recent Tony-involved group.

Looking forward to the new High Aura'd. Sanguine Futures is brilliant.

frozen corn really nails that "hippie band playing during the daytime at some huge Midwest music festival in 71" band name vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmyIO2D4T28

this was one of the more inspired bills in town recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD6edoWqPJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BbQJ1_HYLk

Dredd Foole! Good to know he's still at it. I wrote briefly about a good DF album one tyme---whole round-up's brief, and others in here also pertain to this thread in their own peculiar ways:

Barred Bards
Rebels with inner cause: O death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?

by Don Allred
October 31st, 2005 4:36 PM Issue 44 Village Voice

Dylan's friend Blind Arvella Gray
photo: Conjuroo Recordings
COB
Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart
Radioactive

A Taste of Ra
A Taste of Ra
Hapna

Dredd Foole
A Long Losing Battle With Eloquence and Intimance
Ecstatic Yod

Blind Arvella Gray
The Singing Drifter
Conjuroo

In the summer of 1971, COB, Clive's Original Band, led by Clive Palmer,
dropout co-founder of the Incredible String Band, descended through dogpaths of
Cornwall and into a London studio: barefoot buskers, shaking from their knapsack
the likes of cannily enigmatic "Lion of Judah," which darts across the parade
route of all orthodoxies. Meanwhile, the soulful "Chain of Love" has its own
karmic seeds to burn.

A Taste of Ra is the self-titled album of a certain pseudonymous Swede. (I
suspect the Dungen dude.) It's an in-joke on "acid folk," with someone shuffling
around his kitchen, talking and laughing under his breath. Eventually, we get
angelic Harpo Marxworthy string effects and dust-disturbing falsetto
vibrations, as if he's channeling St. Tiny of Tim, out of the Wilde Blue Yonder.
Recommended!

New England's Dredd Foole (Dan Ireton) used to lead a tribe called the Din,
which sometimes included emissaries from Boston noise kings Mission of Burma. As
presented by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Forced Exposure's Byron Coley, the
Foole, armed now only with mostly non-noisy vocals and solo guitar, does indeed
fight A Long Losing Battle With Eloquence and Intimance (sic), and listeners
win. He's the bard of the barred and scarred, the ones who pay the toll and the
troll. The Unrepentant, Baby!

1972's (expanded) The Singing Drifter is the only album by Arvella Gray, to
whom Bob Dylan attributed "He Was a Friend of Mine," which Gray himself never
recorded. Here, he sometimes drifts too far, yet usually manages to re-engage,
as a blind Windy City street singer had better. His voice and Dobro urge blues and gospel
into a glistening, steely maze of grace. Startling, but they don't call it
"faith" for nothing. (Or even so.)

nice, dow!

scott seward, are you ZEBU... who is zebu? and why does it feel like i have been watching their uploads for close to 8 or 9 years now :)

Wow, tons of action here. Glad to see folks getting into the Alexander tunes, a super good guy and one of my favorites. Also a pretty young player, will be interesting to see where he takes it. Definitely grabbing that LP, have been into all the tapes.

Haven't done this in a while, but I have actually played a couple of live sets with Alexander (well, his duo Nagual w/ Ian McColm) that were a real blast to play. Have a recording of the one from earlier this year:

https://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-banks-nagual-live-collaboration-2-15-2017-2

Fair warning, it is all electric. Pretty happy with it though, three guitars going from meditative/pastoral to more overt moves. A fun night (Bachman also played on the bill).

Also, just set up shows for Glenn Jones and Jon Collin here in Charlottesville at a really low-key, small, and quiet room. Pretty excited about both.

I mean, Glenn is the best and I haven't seen him in several years, so it is very cool that he is coming back, but I am pretty into J. Collin right now. His playing is full of minor gestures and stately tone explorations, while keeping everything tactile and engaging, and it is scratching a very particular itch for me.

So yeah, if you are looking for a reason to hit up central Virginia both shows are in the same week! Glenn on Nov. 12 and J. Collin on Nov. 15.

digging this grand bankz jawn

grandavis - is this the jon collin?

https://soundcloud.com/j-collin

nice, looking forward to checking out the new grand banks ... and that's awesome about the Glenn Jones/Jon Collin gig. make sure to get the scoop on any new Jones joints ... I think I read he has a new one coming out early next year?

checked out the new east of the valley blues — it is awesome, love what those guys are doing.

Tell him Evan (from the West Island wedding) says hi!

Shit- I need to get back to him, actually. Maybe I can share some of his news about his new material and that exhaustive compilation he's curating.

oh right! that american primitive overview he mentioned? anyone know what label he's doing that for? dust to digital?

Thanks UMS, I am fond of that set for sure. Ian and David (aka Alexander) are great players and improvisers, so a lot of fun to play with.

That is indeed the same Jon Collin. He has a cool label called Winebox Press as well, and releases stuff with other labels here and there.

https://wineboxpress.bandcamp.com/

https://earlymusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-nature

Definitely my kind of thing and not for everyone (some folks find him boring), but I really dig his approach.

Maybe I can share some of his news about his new material and that exhaustive compilation he's curating.

― Evan, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:14 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh right! that american primitive overview he mentioned? anyone know what label he's doing that for? dust to digital?

― tylerw, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:18 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what?

Have seen folks mentioning new songs Glenn has been playing on tour, and think he has even alluded to having the recording all lined up, so seems like a new record is not too far down the line. Also seen him suggest there are lots of things in the works, and yeah that sounds excellent.

Evan, I will throw that out there. Sure he will be psyched.

He never mentioned the label looking back...

Here's the title:

The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose: An Introduction to American Primitive Guitar & Banjo, 1963-1974

He said:

"As I say, the material is from both the Takoma and Vanguard vaults and there will be a few things on it that haven't been been reissued before. It'll be a double LP / 78+ minute CD, and with any luck it'll be out before the end of the year."

He never told me to keep this info between us and was happy to share the details with me, so let me ask him if it's OK to go into more detail.

here's what he said earlier this month:

"This past Saturday Laura Baird and I finished recording my next album for Thrill Jockey at Forest Hill Farm, Allentown, NJ, where we did *My Garden State* a few years ago. We were there just under a week. Ten tracks, most written over the past two years, including three for 12-string guitar, plus the first ever collaboration between Laura and I, knocked together in the studio, and which I just love to pieces! I couldn't be happier with the results. Next step is for Matthew Azevedo and I to edit, EQ and sequence the tracks at his studio in Providence, RI, and turn the whole magilllah into an album."

and then re: the american primitive thing:

"I recently wrote a 6500 word essay (for a project that I'm not allowed to announce yet!) that attempts to wrestle with the American Primitive term, its origins, what defines it, etc. It's certainly not the last word on the genre, but I like to think it may be the the first word -- my reflections after 45+ years of thinking about this music. (I'll tell you more when the project is closer to release.)"

xp oh nice — thanks for that info evan!

Given what you just posted please keep quiet on that release title, then. He never told me he wasn't allowed to "announce" it so out of respect let's wait until he clarifies. I'm writing him back now.

yeah, no prob — that must've been back this summer ...

"scott seward, are you ZEBU... who is zebu?"

zebu is ted from feeding tube. and also the name of one of his groups.

came across Fahey (bootleg?) - Azalea City and Other Toxic Nostalgia, must've downloaded it from a link on one of these threads

says it's from 90? Kinda interesting period, I think he's dealing with his diminishing facility in a pretty great way on this, very hypnotic and midtempo stuff, esp. Banjo Street, Springtime in Azalea City and Our Lady of Sorrows...what year in the 90s did he take the left turn into NNCK land?

IMO that would be 1997, the year he released City Of Refuge and the Mill Pond 2x7"

I would love to hear this double-78 release from 1996, it may fit in to that late-90's period as well:

https://www.discogs.com/John-Fahey-Morning-Evening-Not-Night/release/1095107

cool, yeah i didn't know much about the early 90s...doesn't seem like he was super active

also this is one horrible album cover on every level

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y4xmw1RrL._SY355_.jpg

that azaelia city thing is good — http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-fahey-azalea-city-and-other-toxic.html
can't remember but I think some of it is actually old 60s stuff (in addition to late 80s/early 90s recordings). I might be making that up.

ah could be, the recording/engineering is all over the place so they are certainly not from one session or show

the "O"s in "Old" on that cover really, really bother me, the very early 90s was the worst time for design in history

on the plus side i like his take on "Blueberry Hill" RIP Fats

putumayo vibes

haha it's that squiggly O!

I'm still haunted by that time birds were attacking my ex's armpits

it looks like an art project some kid would turn in in 5th grade the school counselor would call their parents to see if everything was "alright" with little johnny