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

i figure if we're posting stuff that's more "out there" than fahey/etc we can post stuff that's more "in there" too...Charlie Parr is a Mpls guy, stalwart folk/blues scene guy, done a ton of albums, always loved seeing him live and seems like a nice dude, he runs a little more towards country blues but he's a hell of a picker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBHM8WRyHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBHM8WRyHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBHM8WRyHM

there.

Parr is great, somehow managed to never have seen him yet. He canceled at the Treehouse thing, but they said they'd try and have him back sometime. Can't say I follow his records much, I think I kinda 'get' his oeuvre with the one I currently have. But yeah, would love to see him live. He plays often enough.

yeah his records are good, at least what i've heard, he's on spotify, that said, he's trad enough where you kind of end up wanting to listen to an old smithsonian thing or something

but live he's really great and the whole performance that i posted is great...he mentions the black twig pickers

Yeah, I have seen Mike Gangloff mention Charlie before, he is a fan (and vice versa). Doesn't Parr do some stuff with Alan Sparhawk as well? Think I saw that somewhere.

yeah i think black eyed snakes (another sparhawk band) played on the last album some? anyway, duluth music community (parr is actually duluth i shouldn't do that thing where mpls claims everyone that's from MN) is pretty tiny

I think I generally claim anyone making music in Virginia as "one of our own", for better or worse.

i like charlie parr a lot!

dude i know put out daniel bachman vinyl so i bought one from him when he came in the store and it just kinda went right by me. i have to really like a guitar record to really like a guitar record. i mean lots of acoustic guitar albums are nice and fine and all that. i don't keep many of them. to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRn4T9iXI3U&feature=youtu.be

michael chapman telling stories and singing about fahey, required viewing

^great.
THREAD ALERT
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Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968. You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, "That's unusual to say the least." A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears. Bikoff has his own approach. Don is only 65 years old, and he's still playing strong. Don will appear with labelmate Daniel Bachman at Union Pool, Brooklyn NY on April 30th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvl38Ofebec

Nice.

yeah, and here's more:
https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/rindlers-metamorphosis-by-don

oh man this is fantastic!

Gotta say that I am enjoying that I can barely get through all the stuff making its way on the thread. So much good stuff.

this bikoff thing sounds great. it is funny, i wonder about the mention of it touching a nerve with fahey. must've been sort of weird for him as his influence grew -- was he just like "why are all these dudes biting my style, yo?"

digging bikoff's copious use of reverb.

yeah i mean i hear the fahey influence but the reverb and the way he plays gives it a unique feel IMO

yeah he doesn't seem like a copycat. also, not sure if fahey would have called a song "Crystal Lakes Of Frangipani"

William Tyler tour:

Shows
March 7 Savannah Stopover Savannah Ga
March 8 Will’s Pub (w Mount Moriah and Snowmine) Orlando Fl
March 9 Drunken Unicorn (w Mount Moriah and Dent May) Atlanta
March 10 Alabama Music Box (w Mount Moriah and Dent May)
Mobile AL
March 11 Spanish Moon (w Mount Moriah and Dent May) Baton Rouge LA
March 12 South by Southwest, official Merge showcase!
April 4 Phuzz Fest , Winston Salem NC
April 9 The Green Roon, Athens GA
April 10 Double Crown , Asheville NC
April 11 The Pinhook, Durham NC
April 12 9th and Beats, Washington DC
April 13 BSP , (w RIchard Buckner!) Kingston NY
April 14 Ortlieb’s Philadelphia PA
April 16 Mercury Lounge , Manhattan NY
April 17 Space Gallery, Portland ME
April 18 Middle East, (w/ Kinski!) Cambridge MA
April 19 O Patro Vys , Montreal QC
April 20 Silver Dollar, Toronto ONT
April 21 Happy Dog, Cleveland OH
April 22 Lager House, Detroit MI
April 23 The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids MI
April 24 Trumpet Blossom Cafe , Iowa City IA
April 25 First Ave (!), Minneapolis MN
April 26 Hideout, (w/ Brokeback, Rebecca Gates) Chicago IL
April 27 Do317 Lounge, Indianapolis IN

April 25 First Ave (!), Minneapolis MN

YAY

(!)

Not new, but relevant, Lena Hughes parlor guitar record reissue on Tompkins Square??? On spotify.

Yep, we were talking about her on Rolling Reissues 2013:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LENA HUGHES 'Queen of the Flat-Top Guitar' out Jan 29, 2013
Reissue of Impossibly Rare early 60's LP. New notes by JOHN RENBOURN
CD/LP/DL out January 29, 2013 on Tompkins Square

A musical "amateur" that best exemplified true artistry, Lena Hughes was born in Grape Grove Township, Missouri, in 1904. Though she never recorded any 78s and only one LP, Hughes was most influential through her steady performances at various fiddler conventions and folk festivals throughout the Ozarks. She was an excellent fiddler, banjoist and guitar picker who retained the largely extinct repertoire of parlor pieces and the variety of specialized tunings that were necessary to play them. She lived most of her life in Ludlow, Missouri and passed away in 1998.

Lena Hughes' repertoire can be divided roughly in half: finger-picked numbers adapted from fiddle tunes and recast parlor guitar pieces gleaned from popular sentimental songs, hymns, and 19th century airs. As a faithful attendee at folk festivals, Hughes was accompanied by her guitar-playing husband, Jake. Her most mesmerizing performances, such as Pearly Dew, Spanish Fandango, and Kentucky Moon Waltz, depend heavily upon the resonance of the open chord as it relates to the picking of the melodic line, primarily on one string. This tonal reliance is most similar to the "celestial octave" that Washington Phillips employs, with similar effect, on his Train Your Child. This ethereal harmonic technique, which seems so natural in Hughes' playing, is the holy grail for most finger-picking guitarists. Her lack of pretense and her mastery of this repertoire is what defines her legendary status.

These recordings were made in the early 60's in Arkansas and released in very limited fashion as a private press LP. Remastered by Chris King. Designed by Susan Archie. New liner notes by JOHN RENBOURN.
CD : TSQ 2813 / LP : TSQ 2820

Distributed by INgrooves/ Fontana US, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE Australia

Also Available : Obscure Giants of Acoustic Guitar Trading Cards (Lena's in there)

very cool

Right nice cover
http://www.tompkinssquare.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TSQ2813_QueenOfTheFlatTopGuitar.900.jpg

And today, she's on NPR (with Renbourn and others talking about her)
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171294400/the-ancient-vibration-of-parlor-music-revived-by-two-generations

totally sweet record - i wrote a little about it here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/01/30/lena-hughes-queen-of-the-flat-top-guitar/

digging daniel paul grody right now

very meditative, definitely skirts the borderline of windham hill stuff, but i dunno, it's pretty and catching my wintery mood right now

Any links? Nothing on spotify

Grody is on spotify, listening on your playlist :-)

oh damn

wtf just did a search and it wasnt there then now it is IDK what is happening!

I've had some weirdness with searches lately

http://dyllanhersey.bandcamp.com/track/never-going-back-to-sunflower-river
someone just sent me a link to this -- she's not all takoma-y (she sings) but this is a nice lil fahey tribute.

really good sound/video quality clips of six organs of admittance live in 2008, minneapolis, won't embed have to go to the site:

http://scheduletwo.com/video/six_organs_of_admittance/coming_to_get_you

Wow, was just going to revive the thread for something unrelated, but excited to check out that Six Organs video!

don't hold out on us!

Was going to post this Daniel Bachman tour-only 7" song that Tompkins Square just put up. Has some mandolin and background drone on it, really nice sounding track. Dude is going out on tour for like two months straight, so lots of chances to catch him (tour dates are listed with the song on soundcloud):

https://soundcloud.com/#tompkinssquare/brother-green-by-daniel

cool i'll check that out, think he's coming to mpls i gotta go

cool, two shows near me. maybe i'll go to both...

wait now i don't see it :(

i swear global tetra posted about it ;_;

he posted about william tyler upthread?

oh shit that was it! ok i'll stop crying now and go to tyler

Been meaning to dive into this thread for weeks and then I saw Daniel Bachman play on Saturday and he was great. Also a super sweet guy as noted itt. He opened for Meg Baird who was good too but this was the first time I'd ever seen Fahey-ish stuff played live and it was amazing to see the technique in the flesh.

as well as the tour dates listed on the soundcloud, Daniel Bachman's playing Wednesday in San Francisco

Can someone c/p the Bachman dates into here? Soundcloud is wonky on my shitty old laptop

Here you go -

February 28 – KPFA 9pm w/ Derk Richardson
March 1st Oakland – Stranded in store 6pm (w/ Powell St. John)
March 2 Corvalis, OR
3rd – Eugene KLCC 2pm, CD World in store 4pm, WOW HALL (w/ Richard Crandell) 8pm
4th – Salem House Show (email us for details)
5th – Portland OR (in store Music Millennium 6pm) Valentine’s @ 9pm (w/ Marisa Anderson)
6th – Seattle 730 KEXP feature airs / 7pm instore @ Wall of Sound
7th – Palouse WA The Tav
8th – Boise in store at Record Exchange 6pm
9th – Salt Lake City
10th – Fort Collins – Bizarre Bazaar
11th – Denver – The Deer Pile
12th – Amarillo – Palace Coffee
14th – Austin SXSW (Tompkins Square Label Show @ St. David’s Episcopal Church w/Luther Dickinson, Alice Gerrard, Hiss Golden Messenger, Harry Taussig)
16th – Marfa 8 or 9pm Marfa Book Co.
17th – Albuquerque NM – House Show (email for details)
18th – Taos – Taos Mesa Brewing
19th – Flagstaff – House Show (email for details)
20th – Phoenix AZ
21st – Tuscon 21st at La Cocina
22nd – San Diego
23rd – Los Angeles – Human Resources (w/ Chuck Johnson)
24th – Berkeley – Berkeley Arts Festival

April 4 – 1PM East Village Radio, 4PM WNYU New Afternoon Show (both w/Don Bikoff)
April 6th – Northampton
April 7th – Boston
April 8th – Portland – The Oak and the Ax
April 9th – Burlington – Monkey House
April 10th – Hudson *
April 11th – Rochester *
April 12th – Pittsburgh
April 13th – Columbus – Wild Goose Collective
April 14th – Bloomington IN – Landlocked in store 4pm
April 15th – Chicago - The Hideout
April 16th – Bloomington – Normal IL
April 17th – Kansas City, MO– Speakeasy
April 18th – Memphis
April 19th – Nashville
April 20th – Chattanooga
April 21st – Atlanta
April 22nd – Asheville – Izzys Coffee
April 23rd – Greensboro NC
April 24th – Chapel Hill – Night Light
April 25th – Richmond – Weezies
April 26th – Charlottesville
April 27th – Blacksburg – The Cellar
April 28th – Baltimore (w/ Max Ochs)
April 29th – Philly – Highwire Gallery
April 30th – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool (w/ Don Bikoff)