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

!! 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.

Please don't pillory for the spam but this is tomorrow for any NY-area people, believe it is relevant:

http://i.imgur.com/GcbKCYn.jpg

Thanks!

I wish I could :(

pretty spam is always welcome

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.

This is me:

https://twitter.com/maxburke

Pleased to internet-meet you.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/COUNTRY-MCGEE-POTEET-Kickin-Mule-C-H-I-C-K-E-N-CONQUEROR-7257-GENNETT-E-/330949732067?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4d0e2426e3

I WANT THIS

(don't nobody outbid me on either of the Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers rekkerds on ebay right now, thanks.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYkEcYi80E

the vocalion issue of this on up on ebay too, right now. i want it. b-side is bankhead blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X07H8YXWuo0

http://www.ebay.com/itm/classic-1935-Mississippi-fiddle-NATIONS-BROTHERS-Bankhead-Blues-Vocalion-03118-/151077417137?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item232cea70b1

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.

i think kids playing blurry is part of the natural order

this is the ultimate sloppy youthful jam to my mind -

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

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3181826676_2.jpg
http://jerryhionis.bandcamp.com/
As the cover implise this is some darker and raw lapstyle guitar stuff.
"God's Business, Witch Finding" is pretty good.
I reviewed it here.

wow this is really great thank you for the link

only a few tracks in but this is excellent

trying to break out of some of the stuff i've been doing....been so focused on getting "better" i wanted to try something that wasn't technique based but more based on the space in the music....

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/anodyne

man this jerry hionis is great stuff

http://www.15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-loren-connors/page-1/

great interview with loren connors

cool, very good interview.
i like the "anodyne" track! i think it's true, the thing that makes a lot of these dudes good is their sense of space & timing, which is something that takes a lot of concentration/commitment. even if what you're doing isn't super complicated technically, it takes a certain i dunno, personality/character to pull it off.
this one will be of interest: http://sideonetrackone.com/2013/07/raised-eyebrows-the-school-of-public-language-randy/
need to check out the hionis stuff!
seeing william tyler in a couple of weeks out here. excited.

Hey U.M.S., liked that "Anodyne" song quite a bit. Some nice overtone action here and there. Definitely nice to mix stuff like this into the more technique and complex stuff. Definitely part of what made Glenn Jones's set the other night so rich was the space and varied timing he used.

The Hionis stuff gripped me for the first few songs, but I drifted in and out for the rest. He is good, and some of the songs I really enjoyed, but it was too long as a straight listen. If it had been edited down to the best 8 songs or so I probably would have felt differently, but promising dude for sure. He almost lost me completely with the vocals though ....

Saw Bowles last night - excellent, excellent gig. He played in the bottom floor of a historic house in Kentucky with 15' high ceilings and moths and hornets circling the solitary light fixture above. More or less the perfect venue. Since there was no opener, he played two incredible sets, and even sang two songs - one folk medley and Sid Hemphill's version of "John Henry." The ability to do two sets seemed to encourage him to stretch out (he played "Beans," a song of his I love that looks extremely difficult to play) and tell a few stories. I'd seen him with the Twigs a few times, and once solo, but set this was my favorite. See him if he makes it out your way!

Sorry for the shoddy review - it's loud here!

Almost posted that sideonetrackone article (blog post?) you put up Tyler, but decided not to. A bunch of folks were sharing it a few days ago (including several of the guitarists included), and it started to feel a bit weird. It has some good quotes in it (I especially like the G. Jones bit about Jack Rose talking to B. Chasny about "For Octavio Paz", Fahey legacy, etc.), but mostly it seemed like a book report on "current dudes playing solo guitar", or, more to the point, like the guy read this thread all the way through and compiled a piece out of it. He even made the Forsyth sound-rundown of "Television, Richard Thompson and The Grateful Dead" that you (and I guess me too a bit) ran down here and in your various writings. I am sure a lot of different folks would hear Forsyth and get similar thoughts, and maybe we both subconsiously picked it up from another source, but the piece just felt odd to me. Much more insight in this thread generally, though obviously these folks are on a lot of people's radars these days, don't want to seem proprietary at all, just found this piece a little off, or unnecessary, or something. More to do with me than the piece more likely.

Aww cool Jimmywine, gonna see Nathan on Monday! Excited, though unfortunately there are now 3 bands on the bill instead of 2, so probably a standard 45 minute set from Nathan. Would love to see him stretch out.

xp yeah i agree -- mainly just found it interesting for the various quotes from the guitarists.
speaking of forsyth, he's got the wfmu set from a couple days ago up now: https://soundcloud.com/solar-motel-band/
[though he really is an outlier in this thread i think -- does he do anything acoustic? or even solo? i know, NO RULES, but he's probably more appropriate in the rolling psych thread or something. i don't really care.]

funny, i think of ilm things as being kind of private or at least hard to find, but i guess it wouldn't take much for googler to stumble this thread
anyhoo!
here's something cool:

Previously unreleased Elizabeth Cotten recordings on split 7" with Marisa Anderson
Portland, Oregon community radio station KBOO are releasing a 7" of a previously unreleased Elizabeth Cotten recording, made at the Euphoria Tavern in Portland in February 1975. Erin Yanke, the station's programme director says: "KBOO broadcast the show live, and the songs on this record are from that performance. We don't know the titles, as they were not announced, and are not released on any of her other recordings." The flip of the 7" is a recording by KBOO's first artist in residence, guitarist Marisa Anderson, and it is being produced in a run of 1000.

Yeah, didn't mean to say too much about that piece. The quotes are cool for sure. Gotta listen to that WFMU set, the other live Forsyth stuff has been great. He definitely does solo guitar stuff, but pretty sure it is all electric. Happy to have it here, just easier than spreading stuff out over a bunch of threads.

That Cotten/Anderson split definitely looks cool. Hope Anderson starts popping up in these types of "people with guitars" run-downs. Very glad that this thread introduced me to her, love the stuff I have heard.

yeah i can't stop listening to that new one of hers.

Well, "didn't mean to" obviously got waylaid by "here are my semi-coherent thoughts" on that piece. Sheesh. Should just stick to talking about the music. And yeah, gonna have to buy that Anderson record at some point.

also, loren connors link seems to be 404?

try this http://www.15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-loren-connors/

durr, that doesn't work either/ just go here and click through - http://www.15questions.net/interview