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

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!

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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

and to bring it full circle here's michael chapman on what looks to be the same night in 1970?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwGj-Eeff4

That second B. St. John video is really lovely, sounding perfect on a rainy day. Gonna have to dig deeper when I get a chance.

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yeah, i was gonna see speer/jones but i am in RI cuz of family emergency.

also, Chapman & BSJ are bffs iirc. She almost always comes out when he plays in NY. I saw BSJ for the first time at Terrastock in uh, 06? Great.. that was before I heard her records; i love the first record and third record the most -- songs for the gentle man is the one where the production seems the most obtrusive.

Thanks for the B. St. John recs, was going to ask if anyone had favorites. I had only heard songs here or there, never a full record.

Wish I could go to that Glenn Jones show, cause that is a good bill, but I am actually opening for him here in Virginia, which is pretty exciting. Gonna be playing a bill with Nathan Bowles soon too, which is great but pretty nerve-wracking.

The show was really good and we had a nice turnout. Glenn played for almost 90 minutes to an enraptured crowd. His demeanor and banter was really great, and it added a depth to the songs - told some great stories about Jack Rose and John Fahey. D. Charles Speer played a lot of new material that they are working on for their next album, it was very hot, rocked out, pretty smokin'.

Was the Speer band Orleans-free? Someone told me DCS had a whole new band, except for Hans.

People be hatin' on M. Orleans but, you know, I admire his dedication to the dobro & mandolin. he is one of the only dudes i know who i can talk abt bluegrass with. Drummer in the Speer band is def the same.

No Orleans in the Speer band but he was at the show.

i feel like i MUST know you, MFB, but i really have no idea... I don't go out these days, as much as I used to.

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Pleased to internet-meet you.

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Man, Glenn was great. Stories really were touching, he was totally engaged and each story seemed to gear him up to play the next song, like he remembered how much he liked them by talking about them and was excited to get back to it. Some of the stories were funny as hell, as told by him, despite all being about the decline of his mom via alzheimer's (and getting older generally). Just a great set, go see him if you get a chance.

Ogmor, I totally get this about Daniel Bachman's playing:

"he didn't really have much space in his playing, it was indistinct, and the pieces blurred into each other. he was fast&loud w/out having momentum or power, and sounded a bit like like jack rose w/all the indian influence taken out, less melodic lines on top, less structure, just rote blues moves. but yeah, he's young & plays well, there's no reason he won't get much better as a 'composer' (or w/e you want to call it) too."

His stuff does blur together in ways that Glenn Jones's more measured stuff does not (for me at least). Glenn makes it all seem relatively effortless and allows plenty of air and dynamics into his playing. I like seeing Bachman struggle, and find him fun to watch (his right hand is pretty wild and locomotive, and to me, powerful), as well as like the tunes plenty, but he does of course have some work to do composition-wise. Some of these other collaborations I have really dug, so I am excited to see where it all goes for sure.