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

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

this guy sent me his upcoming album - http://mmucci.com/album/dangerous-summer-2
pretty lovely 12-string stuff a la blackshaw, some subtle extra instruments, extended tracks. digging it so far!

man, i just chatted with William Tyler. one of the nicest, easiest-to-talk-to musicians I've ever interviewed.

also Impossible Truth just continues to grow in stature for me. a total headphones gem.

yeah he's very charming, i chatted w/him for a minute at his t-shirt/merch/record stand at the show i went to

he's got a killer week of shows coming up at his bar The Stone Fox in Nashville: Glenn Jones tomorrow night, Chris Schlarb / RSMoore Thursday and OBN IIIs on Friday. got me daydreaming of moving to Nashville over here.

speaking of chatting, i got to talk with paul metzger outside the grant hart show on friday....

he's very cool and interesting and -- oddly -- doesn't seem to have that much knowledge of fahey or lang etc...he mentioned a lot of indian musicians he loved and also coltrane....he said seeing early DEVO was life-changing, but other than that he seemed to just like random classic rock like pink floyd and led zeppelin...he was very encouraging and fun to talk to....

the only folk fingerstyle guy he said that had a real impact on him was Duck Baker, who I looked up today and was part of Stefan Grossman's posse...and is half brothers with Duck Dunn!

he uses a nylon string...he's got tons of albums...more of a jazz fingerstyle guy...but has some albums where he does UK/scottish influenced stuff....skilled as a motherfucker as you'd imagine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlAOrk1xYrg

was looking on youtube for fingerpicking lessons and found a man that embodies the sheer #SWAG and #YOLO of fingerstyle guitar more than anyone I've ever seen...ladies and gentlemen...Mr. Roy Bookbinder

http://s15.postimg.org/dcj7ncjm3/bookbinder.jpg

That look certainly is the distillation of...something.

Looks like Bob Odenkirk a little

Not much time to post these days, but wanna say that Nathan Bowles was great last night (Jimmywine also gave the nod above). Really dig some of the originals, where he plays with the form (solo banjo) a bit. At one point he was really hammering on a static set of notes and milking the tonality of it for quite a stretch. Touched on a lot of stuff, but was like a coutry/kraut jam for a bit. Really like his vocals in a solo setting too (he sang the same songs that Jimmywine saw as well). Definitely worth heading out if he hits your town. Good guy too.

sometimes you eat the bear

Pretty good Steve Gunn interview here:

http://adhoc.fm/post/steve-gunn-interview/

Hadn't looked at Ad Hoc much, but it seems it is gunning for our demgraphic a little these days (just joking MFB ....)

never seen Adhoc before, looks like a cool site

Glad you enjoyed, I actually did the write up on the Steve Gunn album for the Mid-2013 best of post, it was a pleasure to give that record some kudos. It was really great/gratifying to watch Gunn's playing start from a very experimental/drone place and now he's done this full-band album with vocals. I don't play guitar so I don't have a lot to say in this thread, but all this stuff has been in my wheelhouse for some time now and it's great to see it flourishing and getting a lot of attention.

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.

― Nikolaus Höhle, Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is great!

this guy sent me his new EP http://johnmcgrath.webs.com/
pretty nice, though probably more along the lines of what Dustin Wong has been doing than a lot of stuff on this thread.

i like dustin wong will investigate

saw william tyler last night in boulder, gorgeous from start to finish. woefully under-attended, but at least that meant it was quiet!

funny, i think because of this thread and a few other places, i expect this stuff to be at least a little more popular but it is so very niche.

yeah there was hardly anyone there in mpls either :(

i bought an old album on Rounder by Eric Schoenberg called Steel String Guitar...he's nice...kinda walks the line between more ragtimey stefan grossman stuff, some celtic stuff, and kottke...very skill player, here's a recent video (said album is from the early 70s though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWObDHT1d0

sounds nice, don't think i've heard this dude before.
worth checking out: http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/