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

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

Nice Glenn Jones video on NPR website, which just shows a straight shot of his playing the whole way through. Nice little write-up too:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/04/17/177474999/glenn-jones-bittersweet-farewell-to-a-family-home#

He seems to have come from the same kind of NJ as I have.

new jones record is great, totally masterful. loved his last one, but this one is stronger overall...

It's isn't out yet though, right?

no, in a couple weeks -- may 14?

Excited!

Yeah, saw Glenn live last year and loved it, imagine that this album is gonna be lovely.

i recently sold that janet smith record.. never listened to it much. it's nice, but i didn't find it sticking with me. a bit mannered as well, i like my songwriting more on the ragged sad dude in torn jeans vein...

yeah i can see why it hasn't been reissued -- definitely pretty far from "cool," kinda more living room folk, but i was liking it for that reason.

oh, it's not bad, don't get me wrong! i am at a place in my life where i'm sort of aggressively pruning my record collection.

have you heard that women's guitar workshop thing?

oh actually just found it streaming here: https://mog.com/m#album/35697431

the name "margo random" sounds like a pynchon character.

i haven't heard that! i'll have to listen.
ya'll know the "puget sound guitar workshop' record right? that's a classic.

i don't know that one! looks totally groovy tho
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AZIdQlGzcwE/TW0xvhndoFI/AAAAAAAAD-s/HdMojWcVIlQ/s1600/DSC_0019.JPG

http://notoncd.blogspot.com/2011/03/puget-sound-guitar-workshop-album-1977.html

ur a national treasure

Dude in the top right looks kinda like Tom Carter of Charalambides (though also like a ton of other long-haired and bearded men). Album sure does look groovy though.

damn thanks tyler & thanks for your next-level internetting skillz