Takoma's one-offs and obscurities

that is one i don't have! sounds great though..
i'm listening to "back home in sulphur springs" (on rounder) atm and it's so great. i also rate "blackberry blossom" and "the fields of november" highly. i think they're on flying fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEkVkJax2Co

yeah i'm kind of in love with "slow train to georgia" but I don't actually own that record, a friend played it for me. he seems great, though, need to check him out further.

his records are not rare and usually pretty cheap.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NORMAN-BLAKE-Home-In-Sulphur-Springs-LP-Rounder-0012-VG-Folk-Vinyl-Album-/250980879405?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3a6fa04c2d

http://www.steveearle.net/homeincludes/chapter.htm

^^ norman blake interview/article

guess it's kind of a steve earle article too!

wonderful cover

http://i1041.photobucket.com/albums/b420/spin13/Spin13%20ALBUM%202/R-1627515-1243325868-1.jpg

lycurgus is a dope record.

I really love Blackberry Blossom by Norman Blake, actually I've liked everything I gotten on Flying Fish. Recently I found
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jBE532ZwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
which was released on Hogeye records but reissued on Flying Fish, really nice country folk record. I need more flying fish, there ought to be a thread....

Back in the 70s, we were having a plastic suburban house party, playing the first three Aerosmith albums over and over and over, 'til I finally freaked out and flipped on the TV. There was Norman, just picking away: not speedy and flashy, but cutting across, unstoppable. We were the ones who stopped, looked, and even listened. My first Norman Blake experience, unless you count my already having had whiskey before breakfast. You can also find a number of situations involving Norman (and sometimes Nancy) on The Steam-Powered Preservation Society's download/stream site, http://thespps.org However! They don't have a search function, so you gotta scroll down and read the descriptions of the sets, and even so, let your finger linger on the download link, while you write it down, cos when you get into the archive you'll see a whole dizzying tower of links, not nec near yr target. Or you can just do a control + F search for a name you're looking for in there, and hit info under a promising label, sometimes get a pretty thorough commentary that way. Being of the jazzier-grass tendency, I also searched for and found clements & friends (Vassar w Grisman etc), Tony Trischka, Peter Rowan (w a line-up incl Trischka & Statman), Country Gazette etc. Blake plays w Tut Taylor alot, so check their Tut stash. Oh yeah, they also work as a duo at the Marin County Bluegrass Festival of 1974, which also involves Garcia and Grisman in various line-ups, plus Doc & Merle, Jim & Jesse, Frank Wakefield, and a monster Nitty Gritty Dirt Band set folding in several of the above and more. Can find that w no trouble at
http://smadacounty.blogspot.com He's also got lots of Garcia, w Dead and others, Townes, etc etc. See the reposts link in left rail for complete list.

hey y'all takoma buffs

do you think there would be enough interest if someone were to try to do a kickstarter (fairly modest in scope, like maybe 3-5Kish) to have peter lang do a recording of 12 string instrumentals at a nice studio (for limited vinyl release + maybe CD plus whatever extras?)

would any of you be into that personally?

yeahhh, i'd support that!

I'm down!

if it got going, i'd try to get the word out via my blog. also, this one would be good: http://delta-slider.blogspot.com ... I think it's pretty much ground zero for american primitive guitar bloggin'. i know the guy and I'm sure he'd want to promote it.

cool yeah just had a convo last nite w/someone close to lang and i was like that sound like a cool idea

do dudes in europe probably know lang too you think?

probably... that lang/fahey/kottke must have made it over there?

i'd support such a kickstarter at whatever level was necc to get a nice record in the mail whenever it was ready.

also, tyler, that blog is great! never seen it before, but i'm not much of a blog reader or downloader. but i like records.

yeah, it's a nice one, lots of good stuff.
i'm sure Lang is at least a little bit known in europe -- i mean, probably as much as in the USA.

i just bought a record on ebay cuz of that blog.
will probably buy many more in the weeks to come.

sweet! this thing is pretty excellent actually: http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2012/04/rc-johnston-fahey-project.html

just got a promo of Digging in the Dust : Home Recordings 1976 by Mark Fosson, out next month on Tomkins Sq. Drag City put out his "Lost Takoma Sessions" a few years back. A little crossover w/ that, but this might actually sound better, despite being home demos. Really a great 12-string player, in the Kottke mode. you can stream it over yonder: http://www.fretboardjournal.com/audio/mark-fosson-digging-dust-exclusive-stream

:D thanks for the tip tyler.

it's pretty beautiful! amazing 12-string tone.

wow! great find!

speaking of which, anything come of that peter lang kickstarter campaign?

nah i keep meaning to call my friend, it was more talk over beers but we should!

those fosson demos sound GREAT, thank you

Listening to the Fosson collection now -- indeed, really spectacular listen and just beautifully recorded for home demos as well. It all sounds very un-1976, somehow.

Thanks Tyler I hadn't heard of this. Hey Ian, has any progress been made on the Homegas reissue you're friends were working on?

I don't think so, Jacob, nothing that I've heard. Keegan has been wrapped up doing the F.J. McMahon reissue. I think he wants to do a Tucker Zimmerman record next; he actually hasn't mentioned the Homegas project in a while.

Really stoked about a F.J. McMahon reissue!

:D it's a good record, and this is gonna sound better than the boot. i have heard the test pressing.

Is the boot you're referring to the UK CD on Revola?

i.e. this: http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=2112

I have not heard the CD.. there was an LP bootleg from maybe 10 years ago or so. Paste-on cover, no label info, mediocre sound.

GUYS!

GUESS WHO'S WIFE GOT HIM 6 GUITAR LESSONS WITH PETER LANG FOR FATHER'S DAY???
XD

wife otm

result!

pretty excited, i just need to call the west bank school of music to schedule

that is cool, i wanted to take lessons with a takoma-style dude who lived around here, but he moved away. keep us posted on how it goes! when is Transfiguration of the Upper Mississippi Shakedown scheduled to be released, anyway?

!!! awesome matt.

haha yeah i don't know when i'm going to schedule them, i almost feel like i'm too shitty to take lessons from him now

but at the end of the day just even being able to geek out and be in the same room, watch him play stuff etc

my friend that took lessons from him had a bunch of handouts from him like tabbed out sheet music for "in christ there is no east or west" by fahey and stuff like that :)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I2cHuaRju4M/S4S576UqMBI/AAAAAAAAAEs/Q0IOHNNs0JA/s400/p000.jpg
full scans of this book over here: http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2010/02/best-of-john-fahey-guitar-tab.html

that is really exciting, matt!

not takoma, but this is great. only heard one other track by this dude previously.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jYLDKDXUoNo/T-qbT9WISHI/AAAAAAAAEcM/xD7rSjqwaRo/s1600/conflower+front.jpg
http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/2012/06/suni-mcgrath-cornflower-suite-1969.html

dl link seems to be down for the moment tho :/

That Mark Fosson record is sounding great today, thanks for posting that. Stream posted upthread still works btw. Pretty amazing sound for a home recorded set of tunes.

yeah i've been listening to that a ton.

It's sequenced/recorded as almost one continuous performance, or at least the mix and consistency of the performance makes it seem so. Can picture the guy (who looks super-young in the picture) sitting down and banging them out in one take, which would be pretty astounding. Considering he was renting the mic he recorded with, that just may be the case.

That Fosson record is incredible! Cosmic Hiccup is transcendent. And to whomever is getting the lessons from Peter Lang: how I envy and am saving up for what you're doing... as a wannabe fingerpicker, you'll have to let me/us know how it goes. I feel like it's something I should jump on once I get the cash, as it doesn't seem like an opportunity to be missed and one that won't be around forever...

Will keep you guys posted on how it goes....btw I don't think it's super expensive for the lessons, but I guess if you were traveling that could get expensive