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

Also, that Stoneybrook boot slays, he does some real cool variation stuff on Fare Forward Voyagers I haven't heard anywhere else. Far superior to the Louisville 77 release that also came out as part of this latest Fahey week- he sounds pretty sauced on that one and some of the tracks are downright sloppy...

Speaking of Record Store Day
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Tompkins Square Label releases 4 titles for Record Store Day, April 20th, 2013. These limited items will be available exclusively at independent record stores in the US and overseas.

IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM VOL. 6 : ORIGINS OF AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR
Gatefold Vinyl : TSQ 2868 out April 20th (Record Store Day) Ltd 1500
CD : TSQ 2851 out April 30th

If American Primitive Guitar begins with John Fahey and the Takoma School, then the actual origins of this sound is found within this collection of fourteen classic solo guitar performances. Recorded between 1923 to 1930, this set is the “Rosetta Stone” of style and repertoire tapped into deeply by Fahey, Basho & Rose, among many others. Sam McGee, Riley Puckett, Bayless Rose, Sylvester Weaver, Lemuel Turner, Frank Hutchison and Davey Miller are the rural artists included in this anthology. Each one of these showcases a particular technique and sensitivity sourced from the earlier 19th century parlor guitar tradition. Several of these sides are reissued for their first time including Sylvester Weaver’s “Guitar Blues” which is the first solo finger picked guitar solo ever recorded. Stunningly remastered and annotated by Christopher King.

CHARLIE POOLE & THE HIGHLANDERS : THE COMPLETE PARAMOUNT & BRUNSWICK RECORDINGS, 1929
Vinyl w/ Poster inside : TSQ 2882 out April 20th (Record Store Day) Ltd 1500
CD : TSQ 2875 Out April 30th

From 1926 to 1930 one of the most popular rural string bands on record was Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers. Through their 78 RPM discs and their various performances, Charlie Poole was second only to Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. Poole’s uniquely syncopated three finger banjo picking style coupled with his Piedmont vocal inflections eventually colored and defined much of what we consider “old-time” music. The classic configuration of banjo, fiddle and guitar with vocals was encouraged by the main label that promoted Poole but he also wanted to record instrumentals featuring twin-fiddle and piano. As renaming his group The Highlanders, Poole was able to actualize this musical vision. This collection contains all of the sides that Poole made with Roy Harvey, Lucy Terry, and twin-fiddlers Lonnie Austin & Odell Smith. Remastered in beautiful sound by Christopher King and with notes written by old-time musician and scholar Kinney Rorrer.

JOE BUSSARD: “Guitar Rag / Screwdriver Slide” 78 RPM VINYL TSQ 71136 LTD. 700 Units. Out April 20th (Record Store Day)

Famed Fonotone label pioneer and 78 collector Joe Bussard plays two tunes with a screwdriver.

FOR THE FAITHFUL: An 18-track Tompkins Square Label CD sampler featuring recent and forthcoming tracks. Available FREE from participating indie stores on April 20th (Record Store Day).

Ask you friendly indie retailer if they will be stocking these items for Record Store Day. If there is any surplus stock on the IA6 & Poole LP’s, we will make them available on our site on April 30th along with the CDs. Thanks !

Will definitely get the Imaginational Anthem comp!

new glenn jones track - https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/glenn-jones-bergen-county-farewell/s-kIM9z

Oh yeah, just got the press release:
Glenn Jones - My Garden State:
01. Chimes
02. Across the Tappan Zee
03. Going Back to East Montgomery
04. Blues for Tom Carter
05. The Vernal Pool
06. Alcouer Gardens
07. My Garden State
08. Like a Sick Eagle Looking at the Sky
09. Bergen County Farewell
10. Chimes II

Glenn Jones is a unique voice working in the decades-long tradition of American Primitivism. What sets him apart from the many devotees to this style is the combination of expressive playing and technical skill, most significantly his inventive use of alternate tunings and partial capos. As anyone knows who has seen him perform, Glenn is a remarkable storyteller, and his songs reflect that talent. The songs on Glenn’s latest, My Garden State, are evocative and redolent, and serve as a testament to Glenn’s talent for conveying a wide array of emotions, many times in one song, without saying a word.

My Garden State was written in the New Jersey home where Glenn's family moved in 1966, while he was caring for his mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s. The songs and sounds on the album are reflective, but never dour or sad. My Garden State was recorded by Laura Baird in Allentown, NJ. Laura joins Glenn on the first proper song, “Across the Tappan Zee” on banjo, interweaving her plaintive melodies with Glenn’s gentle picking. Laura’s sister Meg, who was a founding member of Espers and plays with Laura as The Baird Sisters, also joins in on the final minutes of “Going Back to East Montgomery,” an eight minute long composition that showcases Glenn’s ability to craft a long form piece that is at once expansive and immediate.

The two tracks that form the centerpiece of the album, “The Vernal Pool” and “Alcoeur Gardens” were composed spontaneously in the studio, a technique Glenn developed on tour with Damo Suzuki with his former band Cul de Sac. Where “The Vernal Pool” is exuberant, “Alcouer Gardens” is sparse and quiet, with field recordings of rain and thunder providing a bed for Glenn’s guitar, emphasizing the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves. The songs on My Garden State could have been written by no one except Glenn Jones, brimming with joy, sorrow, and the complex in-between that makes life worth living.

Glenn will be touring throughout the Spring, as well as finishing an album with drummer Chris Corsano and monologist David Greenberger of The Duplex Planet.

I added the bold, hope it's not too much.

corsano...damn!...monologist...um....

haha, yeah. Greenberger's Duplex Planet stuff is pretty cool though.
I approve of Jones' Tappan Zee Bridge reference.

Not all those other monologists--I'd like to check this album of his, based on xgau's recent description:
David Greenberger/Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound: They Like Me Around Here (Pel Pel)
I do wonder how reliably I can judge these records, in which Greenberger transforms serious seniors' generally touching, often loopy, and sometimes inspirational musings and recollections into dramatic readings with musical accompaniment. They're pretty numerous by now‑-I sure haven't heard them all‑-and risk getting repetitive too. Nevertheless, they do vary, in part because Greenberger shuffles arrangers. Yet though this is billed as a "follow-up" to the 2009 Cebar collaboration Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time, it's very different structurally. There 34 of 38 tracks run under 2:13, where here only three of 19 do, and in part because these have more heft, fewer of them skew toward pathos or damage. The steady good humor of the voice the 58-year-old Greenberger has developed to enact his interviewees always imparts dignity, smoothing over hesitations and infirmities. But here the words have extra force, with Cebar's instrumentation fuller too. The proud "She Voted," the prouder "Thank You, Reuben," the skydiving "The Thrill," and the title track "Nemo and Harmony" all inspire mightily.

next album features garrison keillor & the ghost of spaulding gray

new glenn jones sounds great and the album cover of cuet 4-leaf clover playing banjo is great

btw, i'm probably just late pass on this but peter lang told me that "american primitive" wasn't named that because of "primitive" folk music but after "french primitive" art/film

haha, i didn't know that either.
the album might fall a little outside of the purview of this thread (it's a full band kinda deal), but the forthcoming steve gunn record is sounding awesome.

just came across this Jones interview w music from '11; hopefully they'll do a sequel:
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/01/140935915/a-singular-guitarist-emerges-from-john-faheys-shadow

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lang also said something like "john hated the term folk music, he thought that was little german children singing songs in leiderhosen" or something like that lol

glenn jones is a gentleman & I love his playing. I was pretty sure fahey said he used primitive in the sense of primitive painters i.e. untaught.

just listening on spotify but the william tyler record is wearing very well, i like it more each time

can't wait to snag the vinyl

My Garden State was written in the New Jersey home where Glenn's family moved in 1966, while he was caring for his mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s.

something in wrong in this sentence, dude can't be THAT much older than me.

Yeah, it's the syntax - sentence seems to be saying that, in 1966, Glenn's family moved to Jersey so he could take care of his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimers. I think it should read:

My Garden State was written while Glenn was caring for his mother (who suffers from Alzheimer's) in the New Jersey home his family moved into in 1966.

Or something like that. It's early. But yeah, that sentence is problematic. I've met Glenn, he seems to be in his mid-to-late forties? I could be wrong.

i might put his age up into his mid-fifties, but i'm really not sure.but yeah, he definitely wasn't writing material for his new album in 1966.

rounded up a couple recent, rare-ish daniel bachman things over here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/46939156294/daniel-bachman-12-22-12-12-28-12-grab-a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3L-acWwioE

Just stumbled on this. Looks like it was shot in the same kind of area as my childhood home, given his new album is about NJ. Reminds me that hanging out by quiet railroads in the summer is a favorite for me.

Could anyone throw a little top ten list at me on the laid back front-porch side of the genre rather than the dramatic, more James Blackshaw kind of sound? Want to gather some for summer relaxation countryside purposes, and I'm a little overwhelmed by the amount of artists. I already have all my Fahey and 30s era blues, Cast King records ready. Thanks in advance!

you dug into jack rose at all? some of his stuff leans a bit more in the direction I think you're looking for.

i'd recommend nathan salsburg's recent record "affirmed" as well.
you want instrumental stuff, right? there is a whole world of great songwriters in the ssw/folk/country tradition, though often with less emphasis on chops.

one side of the harry taussig lp 'fate is only once' is very much in this style.

the new harry taussig (fate is only twice) is good too esp considering the 50 year gap between albums

Jack rose yes! But I keep forgetting to pick up a record or look for one at the shop. Instrumental or otherwise, anything is great. Chops don't matter as much to me, more about aesthetic overall. Never listened to Taussig, thank you!

The Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers LP on Klang Industries/VHF is the best of that "porch" style (I catch your meaning...) I also highly recommend WIllie Lane - he used to play around with Matt Valentine/Erika Elder and has self-released a couple LPs that are very overlooked IMO. Here's a little clip of him:

http://youtu.be/mKztbs3zWlU

Marc Orleans is one of my favorite guys in this style but he has no solo recordings. He had a duo group with Tom Carter called Eleven Twenty-Nine for a bit released one album. A bit outside the purview, maybe, but could slot in. Samples here:

http://northernspy.11spot.com/eleven-twenty-nine-s-t.html

D. Charles Speer is Dave Shuford. The last Jack Rose recordings were with Shuford/Speer and his group The Helix (released as Ragged & Right on Thrill Jockey). The D. Charles Speer stuff is a bit more eastern-tinged (which I quite dig) but could also find a home on this thread. In this clip he plays bouzouki:

http://vimeo.com/19039190

Very cool, thank you so much. I saw D. Charles Speer open for Come a year or so ago and it was fun country rock stuff but I couldn't get interested enough in the records. Earlier ones by him are more intimate I guess? That Willie Lane clip is great so far, moving on to the others next.

Been out of the loop as I have been on vacation for 2 weeks, got some stuff to catch up on. A friend of mine is putting out a Daniel Bachman tape, dated/titled something similar to what tyler posted on his blog above, so not sure if it is some of the same recordings put on tape instead of CDR or if it is different recordings made around the same time, but here is a link to a nice duet with the banjo player mentioned in the Doom & Gloom write-up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb5nlh22z9g&feature=youtu.be

Evan, this is probably similar to what you are looking for, pretty "porchy" to me.

yeahh, i believe that's the same thing i linked to...hope it's cool, got the impression the blog that posted the download link had done it w/ bachman's permission.

Sounds fantastic!

Glad you like it Evan.

Daniel is pretty laid back, I doubt he would mind (and I bet he did give permission). My friend's label is pretty much brand-new, just one tape prior to the planned D. Bachman one, with a Mike Gangloff tape to follow. Think they are all just interested in getting stuff out there. Here is the label if anyone is interested, I didn't even realize he had gotten anything in the works until today:

http://holysmokesrecords.com

had my second lesson with peter lang, this one was great, got a lot more into actual playing this time...we're going to learn a series of 6 songs that he feels are a good progression for learning...first one was by a guy I was not familiar with, Joseph Spence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence_(musician)

A native Bahaman apparently, discovered by smithsonian field recorders in the 50s, Lang spoke extremely highly of him, called him the "jimi hendrix of acoustic guitar", talked about Fahey and himself hanging out with him, but yeah really cool stuff, very individual style that doesn't quite fit with anything else, maybe most similar to Lena Hughes or Taussig as far as stuff posted on this thread but that doesn't totally fit either...a real original i guess.... Here's me playing what Peter taught me at the lesson, a part of "There Will Be A Happy Meeting in Heaven" by Spence, i guess he did mostly religious stuff (peter plays this a lot he said but he does a bunch of variations)...I looked online and there are a lot of variations on it that ppl play, peter said that he feels this bit that he taught me is the closest to how spence played it:

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/there-will-be-a-happy

cool!
i think i only know joseph spence from a song of his ry cooder does...

he mentioned that cooder and also taj mahal had made pilgrimages to go hang out w/spence...apparently, taj mahal brought a bunch of his US released records as a present and spence got pretty salty about it because he didn't know he had records and was basically "where's my fuckin money?"

he also said that spence played pretty out of tune and fahey actually tuned his guitar correctly for once and spence picked it up and kinda glared at fahey like "why did you fuck up my guitar" haha, sounds like he wasn't super impressed by these western heavyweights....apparently worked as a janitor most of his life....lang said he was a super interesting cool dude to hang with

Spence is an incredible guitarist and definitely sui generis, as they say. his playing is so jagged sometimes that it reminds me of no one at all -- he's got a patton-esque intensity tho. time to break out my spence records..

yeah really cool discovery for me, there's a couple on spotify, gotten get some vinyl....Lang really spoke about him in the highest possible terms.

his weird vocal tics over his playing are really odd

i've been listening to Jack Hardy a ton the last two weeks. Not quite a fit for this thread, though he is a good guitarist he's more of a songwriter, and a damn good one. His records through the seventies & eighties are great. And they avoid sounding like garbage because they were always recorded live with a small, well-rehearsed band. No ugly production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn86mfB1UpY&list=PLE5C26C10B85305F5

joseph spence is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfqX3WRJP0

so much fun

the spence pieces on cooder's jazz album are definitely the highlights on there for me (post-revisiting it after a long time and actually enjoying it now)

Man, so much to listen to on this thread. I dig that Joseph Spence song and the Jack Hardy, both of whom I had never heard before. More exploring down the line. Just heard a track from the upcoming Orcutt and Corsano record, which is cool, and got me to listen to this Orcutt solo thing again that fits in with this thread in a cool way. More trad than most of his recent acoustic stuff but still retaining his signature a bit, and representing the jagged, "sui generis" side of this stuff pretty well:

https://soundcloud.com/#bill-orcutt/bill-orcutt-die-then-come-back

I don't rate bill orcutt's solo stuff much, but that song is not so bad. sounds like a really shitty hans reichel, which is still a pretty good thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4A6Wbmm7I

that's great

i finally got a copy of the nathan bowles record. had to have the guys at other music order it for me. lovely stuff.

yeah it's one of my favorites of the last year or so

Gonna see The Black Twig Pickers tonight, with David Daniel opening. Pretty exciting, and free to boot. If anyone lives within driving distance of Charlottesville Virginia head on down. Love that Rose and Bowles clip.