holy shit guys
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
this stuff is amazing.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha well i guess i was dead on with the title then
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
if i keep bumping this someone will eventually care? maybe?
probably not
― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh, i didn't see this the first time around. I love John Jacob Niles!
― Joint Custody (ian), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i had no idea that he wrote "I Wonder As I Wander", which has to be one of the weirdest fucking christmas songs ever.
somehow i thought you might be on board ian!
― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Saturday, 6 March 2010 01:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
This dude is amazing. I don't know what percentage I have of his stuff (1 cd and the "Folk Balladeer" LP), but it's just so brilliant and strange.
― Chokoreeto Kurosawa (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 6 March 2010 03:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
not much to contribute here, but love, love this dude.
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah I could talk about this dude all day
not right now but I'll get back to ya
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
i love this guy
― lukevalentine, Saturday, 6 March 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
maybe what we need is some kind of general american folk revival threadthere's a lot of people I would like to discuss
― lukevalentine, Saturday, 6 March 2010 15:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
tadah!
General american folk revival thread
― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Sunday, 7 March 2010 08:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have a note in my phone that just says "John jacob niles". Dunno why or when I wrote it. Must have heard his music out at a store or on tv or was he in the Dylan documentary? I watched part of that over new years. I'll do a lil checking him out now.
― jaxon, Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
o hey, just watched that clip upthread and it's from the dylan doc. awes. he sorta reminds me of jimmy scott
― jaxon, Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
to state the obvious, Go Away From My Window was the springboard for It Ain't Me Babe
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah he was in the dylan doc, some talk about him here
Who Is Watching (Anticipating) The Scorsese/Dylan Epic On Monday?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
listening to this on spotify.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/john-jacob-niles/sings-folk-songs/american-folk-childrens/music/album/smithsonian
i have my precarious life in the public domain on cd; that came out after the scorsese doc and says as much in the copy on the back cover.
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 01:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
this music is scaring me right now, spooky
― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
what's funny is he was kind of hated by the folk music cognoscenti of his time - he was considered a braying showman who rewrote folk tunes, or even worse took credit for writing them
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
those niles clips in the dylan doc were taken from a TV special called folk sound, USA. would love to see that entire show. niles does "wonder as I wander" and "go 'way from my window", and it has this stuff, too:
Joan Baez sings "Virgin Mary"; Casey Anderson sings "Muleskinner Blues"; the Tom Scott Singers sing a medley of traditional American songs; Cisco Houston sing "Hard Travelin'"; Peter Yarrow sings "Wally, Wally"; John Jacob Niles sings "I Wonder As I Wander" and "Go 'way From My Window"; John McCurry narrates Weldon Johnson's "Go Down Death"; Baez sings "Joys of Love"; Frank Warner sings "Blue Mountain" and "Peanuts"; blues singer-guitarist John Lee Hooker sings "Tupelo Blues"; Mildred Anderson sings "Hello, Little Boy"; Hooker sings "Maudie"; Mildred Anderson sings "Don't Deceive Me"; Yarrow sings "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?"; and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys sing "Salty Dog Blues," "Earl's Breakdown," and "Before I Met You."
http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=folk+sound&p=1&item=T84:0155
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
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he's definitely not like something that would seem like it would have gone over well w/that crowd, so weird and theatrical...he reminds me of klaus nomi kinda
he reminds me of the scary preacher from poltergeist ii
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:25 (4 months ago) Permalink
legend has it during live performances he'd be acting out parts and rolling around on the floor
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
also, lol
John Niles 3 years ago
to all of you who have or who will watch the clips of my father John Jacob Niles please be assured that he was my BIOLOGICAL father. His high voice does not in any way indicate that he was "missing anything." Trust me, everthing was there.
John Edward NilesSilver Spring, Md.
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:29 (4 months ago) Permalink
my favorite part of that clip is the norms standing there while niles blasts his phantom falsetto in their faces, how many stifled the urge to flee
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:32 (4 months ago) Permalink
yeah i find this dude kind of terrifying. in a good way! mostly. and lollll at his son on youtube.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
xxpost ppl used to assume the same thing about Alfred Deller.
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:37 (4 months ago) Permalink
(Who JJN kind of reminds me of a more batshit version of)
yeah this is the guy from poltergeist ii he reminds me of
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
In the clip on the Dylan docu, he is playing some kind of lap slide lute or something?
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
appalachian dulcimer
― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_dulcimer