Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

hey you're never alone when you have michael hedges records to keep you company

I find Michael Hedges to be really terrible. The precursor to that slap and tap Andy McKee Youtube gibberish. I can't believe that the recent Fahey show uploaded to Youtube, the New Varsity series, were of him opening for Hedges. Slippery slope indeed.

I bought this Alex De Grassi album for $1 because it was in mint condition and was only $1, but it's pretty good for light (not lite) guitar music. It took me forever to remember his name because all I could remember is what the cover looked like.

http://991.com/newGallery/Alex-DeGrassi-Turning-Turning-B-495700.jpg

friend of mine put out this solo acoustic guitar CD a few years ago -
http://www.josephbrenna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/josephbrennacover.jpg
he's the one who hates fahey though! much more into things like Hedges. Though I think he's actually not that into acoustic guitar playing, really, this was more of a side-trip for him.
http://www.josephbrenna.com

the exact point at which this stuff starts to sound like "healing music" is my tipping point

Tyler, thanks for that! I have now moved on form A. Legg to listening to D.P. Grody's album "In Search Of Light", which is really nice. Synth and acoustic guitars and a few other instruments so far. Nicely layered and detailed (lots of overdubs), but hitting the spot on a slow wintery Wednesday for sure. Can stream it on his bandcamp page.

That was in response to that D.P. Grody mix of course

yeah it's pretty good. feel like it's 5-4-3-2-1 til some label is reissuing that great Cromarty record. [which, if you haven't heard it, is up for dl on root blog].

Can't really download right now. What's the Cromarty like? Straight solo fingerpicking stuff of songs?

it's solo fingerpicking except for the last song (which has vocals). really pretty playing, probably closer to john renbourn than fahey.

Thanks Tyler. Will add it to the things to download when I have a slow day at home.

yeah the cromarty thing is really gorgeous

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/11/15/george-cromarty-grassroots-guitar/

i mean...just the #swag on the cover alone:

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cromarty.jpg

i like that on the back of that album he offers a pronunciation guide for his name. more people should do that.

does he use IPA symbols and everything??!

haha, no, here it is
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjq0dI44F1qzy30io1_1280.jpg

oh sorry that's tiny, here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/image/35789942787

huh! i've heard that name a zillion times and i've never heard it pronounced like that
always cro-MAR-ti
thanks g cromarty!

i know! as in cromwell and thirty! would have never known.

this is a great thread. have nothing new to share atm but was watching this great little set by jack rose earlier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esteBtuPrs
he kinda loses it at the end, there's a lot frustration in playing this kind of music i suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vorXt58DZUg

^ Do you guys know Alexander Turnquist? Think he's been around for a few years but I've only just started picking up his stuff. Kind of in a James Blackshaw/Robbie Basho vein of 12-string playing.

steve gunn & mike wexler playing tonight in brooklyn, both some of my fave locals.
gunn is more raga-psych-jamz on acoustic/electric and wexler is more songwriting but both are really great.
union pool! endless boogie are headlining.

hey ian! i hoped you would find this thread.

loving this turnquist

turnquist is on the latest imaginational anthem (which is the only thing I've heard by him), but i was kinda ehhh, because it was sooooo blackshaw-esque. but that clip is pretty great, will check out some more stuff by him.

my running list of dudes that are totally boring new agey guitar player magazine type bullshit you should avoid:

Sergio Altamura
Antoine Dufour (i don't know why i even bothered once i saw the song title "Spiritual Groove (Live)")

but i was kinda ehhh, because it was sooooo blackshaw-esque

yeah, definitely get that impression watching some older clips. got his most recent album and he seemed to be playing a lot higher up the fretboard and chucking in lots of harmonics so it had more of a steffen basho junghans feel. it's okay! but yes, not frollicking naked in wild new fields of discovery

tbh most of the stuff in this thread is probably going to be more evolutionary than revolutionary

yeah, totally

Yeah, had been told about Turnquist by a friend of mine, and I really like that. I like that he has a somewhat maximalist sonic approach, i.e., a lot of open strings and overtones/harmonics going on (and the fast rolls with the fingerpicking), but the melodic movement and chording are pretty minimal. Guess I should listen to more Blackshaw, whom I haven't delved into very deeply yet.

Wow, that drone segment at the end of that Jack Rose video is actually quite astounding. I thought he was using an effect at first, but it really just seems like just his lap slide.

http://youtu.be/vqOTeMGwsYE
this guy is good -- need to pick up his record... i think he's the guy who did that work hard, play hard box set for tompkins square too?

That is good, hadn't listened to him before.

Reminds me of Micah Blue Smaldone's instrumental stuff (touches of more traditional old-time/ragtime type stuff), though Micah writes a lot of vocal downer stuff as opposed to being largely instrumental, which is what has been popping up on this thread. All finger-picking though, worth checking out. Friend of the Cerberus Shoal/Big Blood crew of folks from Maine.

Nathan's "Affirmed" album is great and so is his album of duso with James Elkington.

duos, that is.

yeah checking Affirmed out now. sounds great.
it is kind of interesting w/ these guitar players and the more ragtime-y stuff they all seem to get into sooner or later. it's sort of the least "cool" sounding stuff (not to say I don't like it). is there something technically challenging about playing in that way that draws them to that style?

ok, yeah, this salsburg album is stellar! dig the one vocal track too...

wow this is really great thanks tyler!

btw this horribly album covered peter lang record from 2003 is pretty good!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/GuitarPeterLang.jpg

one of the ppl that come up on nathan salsburg's "related artists" on Spotify....#swag

http://img.mp3rally.com/imager/w_500/h_/12acd7dd26092cdfdb8077214cca31d3.jpg

the james elkington/nathan salsburg album is on spotify, really gorgeous

yeah checking that one out next!
guitar jock! intense, showin off the back of the amp. so raw.

just had that bitch re-tubed

scariest thing is, give me ten years and i will look exactly like that dude.

listening to will ackerman right now on spotify

this....isn't that bad....

i may have crossed some very important line

maneli jamal, new guy i guess iranian by way of belarus and austin TX...some of his stuff is a bit too technical and kinda saccharine for my taste but he's super talented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69MJ4UGzvl4

also found this fingerstyle label candyrat but it (and jamal) sort of have the music school/guitar mag stench about them

http://candyrat.com/

Man, you are doing some work. There is a fine line, and seemingly a LOT of folks who get technical chops of the fingerstyle variety.

yeah it's kinda hard to find stuff that hits that perfect middle ground between indie rock dudes playing dress-up and session dudes new age jacking off stuff

Saw Daniel Bachman live recently, and I gotta say it was a real treat. He is still so young so I am sure he is gonna just get better and better, but despite the songs sounding pretty similar there was a real momentum to all of them and he was just a pleasure to watch. A couple of the songs were close to transcendant, especially his thumb picking. Just a super-nice guy as well.