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

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.

sounds fun, i need to hear that new black twig pickers album.
listened to those tompkins square "berkeley guitar" compilations, which I hadn't heard before -- more sweet stuff, more dudes to check out, especially this dude: http://sean-smith.org/

"SEAN SMITH is a guitarist from San Francisco, California. He currently plays in the exploratory progressive instrumental band, TWIN TRILOGY. He has released several eponymous albums since 2003. Additionally, Smith performs solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar and is in the legendary Black Sabbath cover band, BOBB SAGGETH."

kind of a gross photo at his website fyi

xp david daniell has done some cool stuff, it'll be interesting to see what he'll play

Ah, cut off an l from "Daniell", didn't I, but yeah, I am interested too. Guy has an interesting history. I am imagining he will be doing the solo electic looping stuff, but maybe not?

Yikes, can't spell today. That is supposed to be "solo electric looping".

really liked what I heard of his acoustic stuff, w/ field recordings etc. he did the closing track on a fahey tribute - "the great koonaklaster speaks" or something - & that was really nice, sumptuous, & he played straight acoustic on this comp last year which is v much in the vein of this thread - http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/eight-trails-one-path. I liked the records w/ doug mccombs where he plays electric though, they had a really distinct, kind of smokey feel.

great spelling from me today too.

Thanks for posting that Three Lobed comp, pretty sure I started listening to it at some point but never finished. Gonna dig back in today. Interesting line-up.

Sure wish this sounded more like it looks

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/advance/art/190/18ea7628.jpg

Some good detail in the background of the larger original post, and good variety in other album art---gave me something to do while listening the David Grubbs' The Plain Where The Palace Stood, which tends to harp, with no kinda harp, just insistent, mostly electric picking and spare accompaniment, on the ominous vibe of the album's title. Short phrases, with dramatic pauses, giving us time to get on our knees. May not be totally fair, since I tended to snooze a little, but that's usually a bad sign (about the music, I hope). Do dig "The Hesitation Waltz," where the ominnous is more subtle, as he considers where a relationship (or something) may be leading---this is one the few with vocals, and kind of reminds me of Arto Lindsay, solo or with the Ambitious Lovers. Need to listen to some of those albums again, so thanks for the reminder, Grubbs. Also like the next track, "View From The Mesa": black and white frames of big curls of smoke--if the mesa looks like this, start runnin', podner. Still streaming here, dunno how much longer:
http://pitchfork.com/advance/68-the-plain-where-the-palace-stood/

a lady makes an appearance on this thread! pretty happening out of print takoma record.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rukCG-qCh6o/UHCdxslprnI/AAAAAAAAAUo/dXz5tFOloXQ/s1600/cover.JPG
http://thewaythetreesgrow.blogspot.com/2012/10/janet-smith-vol-i-unicorn-and-other.html

there's also this 1978 comp, which i haven't heard, but has been reissued somewhat recently.
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/634/7714634.jpg

digging this janet smith...who's bob wilson the second guitarist?

i don't know! some of the janet smith is a little frilly folky vocal stuff, but i dig it.

yeah it's pretty fancy, but i dunno break out the candles and red wine and sit down by the fire

i feel like she probably lived in a big victorian house where lots of ppl hung out and they always drank wine and she was perpetually making a big spaghetti dinner for everyone

and they listend to blue by joni mitchell a lot

totally
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DMS6NMCXL.jpg

pretty cheap on amazon if you need it: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerstyle-Guitar-Solos-Janet-Smith/dp/0931759315

haha some price differential there lol

oh lol, only saw the $11 pricetag there. better snap it up and re-sell for $500!

i dunno the one for $429 is probably in better shape