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

I love Califone! Those are great sample tracks. They're somewhere between Calexico and Giant Sand (though I relentlessly will defend Calexico's ability to be amazing at experimental/intimate).

i like califone....actually more than calexico or giant sand some songs really remind me of latin playboys in terms of production

Califone one of my favorite bands ever.

Last record was pretty ignored it seems.

i've only deeply gotten into Quicksand/Cradlesnakes by them (and maybe the heron king thing, too). i should listen to them more -- though occasionally i thought the (admittedly very cool) production/percussion was at times at odds w/ the songwriting? maybe that's sorta the point.

Yeah, when I first started listening to them I found the instrumentation to be over-noodly but eventually I grew to love it. I think it is sort of the point.

a soulful and authentic android phone voice app balanced on my knee

that's how i like it. pure delta haze.

I like this track from the new comp on Tompkins Square, "Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of Old-Time Music."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zTPh0xCxL-I

Strangely, the aforementioned comp has one of the same Lemuel Turner tracks that was on Imaginational Anthem 6. I understand they were compiled by two different people and from different 78 collections, but you'd think someone at Tompkins Square would have nixed that and they could have found a suitable substitute?

yeahhh, i thought that was weird too -- it's Lemuel Turner's big moment! great track though.

Three cheers for Lemuel Turner!

Hah, I am friends with a Lemuel, which I thought was such a weird name (he goes by Lem). An alternate version of Samuel I guess. Will have to check out this other Lemuel.

crossover or not, both of those comps are killer. i really like the fiddle/accordion (?) thing by Blind Joe Magrum & Fred Shriver, is there more of those dudes?

only four issued sides --
http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2012/03/blind-joe-mangrum-and-fred-shriver.html

do you fuck with any cajun stuff, tyler? there's a lot of fiddle/accordion jams in that world.
also there are some great irish & canadian accordionists...

pretty unfamiliar w/ the world of cajun tbh, though that new tompkins sq. comp (let me play this for you) has got me thinking i should get more into it. open to any/all recommendations!

From what I've seen, collecting Irish accordion records shouldn't cost very much!

haha yeah. you know, i think i vastly prefer the sound of an accordion from the 1920s-30s -- just the way the instrument kind of distorts in those old recordings, as opposed to more hi-fi, distinct sounds that you'd hear nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m74MOogSoDM

There's a collection of Amede Ardoin's material recently released that is lovely stuff...

http://www.amazon.com/Mama-Ill-Long-Gone-Recordings/dp/B004INNRSW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1372267368&sr=1-1&keywords=amede+ardoin

Fuck man, sure wish I could go to that Steve Gunn trio/Tom Carter & Loren Connors duo/Highlife bill. Union Pool is a weird bar, but I love the venue in the back, good small space with decent sightlines. Should be pretty great I imagine.

yeah, the show space is pretty good in there.. saw steve play there recently actually and it was great. i don't know who highlife is?

will be going tho... of course. i try to see loren any chance i get. and steve and tom are great guys. weird bar for sure.. on a saturday the patio outside will no doubt be filled with loud and rambunctious 20-somethings..

(as opposed to myself the quiet and reserved 20-something)

wish there was a vid on youtube of this Darby & Tarlton 78 i got in the mail.. "Mexican Rag." Great slide guitar. they're good in general but this is maybe my new fave, displacing "down in florida on a hog."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIilpCMo95k

Highlife is a "Sleepy" Doug Shaw band (he was/is in White Magic and has played guitar for a bunch of other bands I think, not sure what exactly Highlife does though). The meat-markety aspects of Union Pool are definitely high, but yeah that show space is like a different beast. Creates a strange mix, but glad that place puts on the kinda shows it does. Would really be most excited to see Tom & Loren together, as I have been on a big listening kick with both of them.

xp awesome! what are they doing on a hog in florida though?

ooohhh, right. i guess i did know that about highlife. i just didn't remember. should be fun.

tyler: they are having a party.

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=103386

seems like this meaning of "on a hog" (or 'the' hog?) implies riding the rails.

actually... i didn't read far enuff:

rom the notes in book accompanying Bear Family box set of complete Darby and Tarlton: 'In 1920-24, Tom traveled to Florida to see if the boom that was going on there would rub off on him. As he tells it, "I'd go from here to town to town and around. I played the Florida boom. While I played the Florida boom, I composed this song called 'Down in Florida on a Hog'" ... While Tom did put this song together and explains that "on a hog" refers to living high on the hog, the song is nevertheless clearly a version of "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" ... The melody related to a whole family of tunes including "KC Railroad" or "KC Moan" that includes both black and white tradition. It is interesting to note Tom's reference to Birmingham. Throughout the Darby and Tarlton repertoire, they make references to Birmingham. There is no indication that Tom was ever in the city'. [Note by Ed Kahn]

Pretty sure Highlife is a Jason Ajemian-led jazz combo, unless there are two bands with the same name

There are two bands, this is definitely not the Ajemian project (I love Ajemian too, doubt they know each other exist but who knows).

Hey- is there anyone of this camp that does almost exclusively slide guitar?

Something like this:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=calexico+redwood

I could listen to a whole album of it.

that's a pedal steel. the only person i've seen play one is heather leigh murray (taurpis tula, scorces, charalambides) but she is too excellent to be compared to calexico

i think there are also some recordings of sandy bull on a pedal steel but i have not heard them. that would probably be pretty good.

Right, pedal steel. I always do that.

BTW no badmouthing Calexico in front of me!

Howdy, I don't know how I end up here and I apologize for placing an ad here as first post, but I think this could be interesting for you guys:
http://dyingforbadmusic.com/dfbm16-rag-lore-sabah-el-mitragyna-reveries.phtml
Lap style guitar jams.
Check out Mt. Elephant too - it's far away from american guitar music, but maybe it's something you've never heard before...
http://dyingforbadmusic.com/dfbm15-mount-elephant-iii.phtml

Thanks for the links, Nikolaus ,and welcome!

Susan Alcorn also plays the lap steel, but like Heather Leigh Murray, she tends to play it in an avent-garde style that isn't /quite/ what you're looking for, Evan, I think. Maybe you should listen to some Red Rhodes albums?

quote of notes re Florida reminds me of the Pentecostal sacred steel scene down there (which gave us the Campbell Brothere, who were especially awesome with Mavis Staples; also Robert Randolph, who has since incorporated elements of Duane Allman, Coltrane, Hendrix etc) Here's a trailer for Arhoolie's Sacred Steel documentary; other clips are also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOmZhhNNElM

Think that local tradition started waay back; still going strong, last I heard.

!! that is awesome

sneaky pete kleinow is so great at pedal steel burritos 4 lyfe

michael chapman has a new album out on spotify! it's kinda different....just two 25 minute tracks, the title track pacyderm...it's really minimal just him doing minute changes on one arpeggio over and over, very hypnotic, the b-side is a "remix" of sorts of the same track

also because i was listening to chapman, spotify suggested I listen to Bridget St. John, a UK folk artist of the late 60s....really beautiful...very lovely voice (imagine "These Days" by Nico without the stern German accent).....not sure if she's playing fingerstyle on this album or someone else is but it's lovely playing and nice, unfussy arrangments....

John Martyn plays on her first album iirc, but BSJ is on guitar too - I'm not really sure who does what either.

yeah i think she's fingerstyle. she is so good -- a couple of her albums have slightly questionable production, but some of 'em are straight classics. she's actually on that recent michael chapman tribute album, with a freaking amazing version of "rabbit hills." oh and hey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0R3veIQU1k

^^worth listening to, super beautiful (though the setting for the video is not)

Good performance, hadn't seen that before. Matt's right that there's something Nico-ish about the tone of her voice and there is an indirect connection between them too: they both made records with Kevin Ayers.

the one i'm listening too is Ask Me Know Questions

it's straight up perfect late 60s uk folk production/arrangements....

Pretty enjoyable but "stuffy" (and perhaps a little slight) interview with Glenn Jones, along with performances of 3 songs, as part of WNYC's "Soundcheck". I just enjoy hearing the guy talk, cool guy, more the interviewer that keeps things a little corny and light:

http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/jul/25/glenn-jones-in-studio/

Like the B. St. John vid too, thanks for posting.

here's a great one from back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kuS96Und8