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

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/

this thread has been the best thing for me this year...but one side effect is that there has been so much stuff that i've had to check out that i've kinda sped through things and not really engaged with stuff for longer periods....so...anyway....been listening to the Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion again and goddamn this is such a fucking amazing, distinctive, and odd record....definitely one of the best this year, and honestly I think this is one of the records on this thread that can hold its own with anything by Fahey or whoever

Yeah that Bikoff record is really nice, and agreed that the volume of stuff presented here has been overwhelming at times. I troll back through the thread pretty regularly to return to a bunch of stuff. Just went on a recent Stephen Basho-Jungan listening spree (at Ogmor's recommendation), and really loved it. Really interesting player. Listening to that Bikoff record again right now!

Agree about the Bikoff - definitely its own thing. A beaut. I'd also add both Taussig LPs to the list of 'crucial' purchases in this thread.

yeah the bikoff is very good, need to go back to it. that lena hughes thing on t. square is very very good too, if you haven't gotten to it yet.
hey, question for y'all, that bikoff record came out on oblivion records, which also put out the first leo kottke record - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-String_Blues
does anyone have the kottke record? i've never heard it, and apparently it's never been re-ished?

looks so nice
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/12-String_Blues.jpg
is kottke embarrassed by it or something?

12-String Blues (sub-titled Live at the Scholar)

I looked at that cover and I've NEVER seen that in a shop.

BTW, I'm pretty sure The Scholar was owned by jjjusten's dad, so maybe we could ask him? I know he has crazy tapes of stuff.

oh nice, i bet some rad people played there back in the day.
oh and lookee here: http://kicktokill.blogspot.com/2008/04/leo-kottke-12-string-blues-oblivion.html

I love Steffen Basho Junghans, seem to remember arguing his merits w/ hstencil on this board way back when. Some of his more percussive playing where it sounds like he using some sort of extended techniques remind me quite a bit of 70s era Hans Reichel, who was another German guy but from more from the free improv side of things who built lots of his own instruments, often by splicing bits of different guitars together. Not enough footage of him online but the first section of this thing is what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8uGNY2Qf9Y

cool!
yeah there are some junghans live recordings i've heard where i'm pretty baffled as to what exactly he is *doing* to the guitar -- getting all kinds of strange resonances. i mean, he's just playing guitar, right, no effects or anything?

Yeah, I have no idea what SBJ is doing half the time but it is often just so hypnotic that I assume some sort of sorcery is afoot

I've got a copy of that Kottke @ The Scholar rekkerd -- it's cool but not a patch on Circle Round The Sun in my book.

i need to get that one too!

i put on SBJ rivers and bridges this morning while i changed my son's diaper and got him ready for the day -- i think it had a calming effect!

leo kottke singing vs. peter lang singing FITE!

KOTTKE ALL THE WAY

do ppl on this thread dig Norman Blake? sick shredding flatpicker and great songwriter. i feel like i've asked this before..

yeah i have one of his first couple albums (on flying fish i think) it's really good

Kottke is by far a better singer than Basho. No question. Summation: Kottke has a pretty low opinion of his own crappy voice, and it shows. Basho had a high opinion of his own crappy voice - and it shows.

fucking hell footage of hans reichel playing guitar fuuuuuuuck nick you have made my week! been looking for clips for years and only ever found tiny fragments, not sure how i missed this on youtube. i was thinking about him just today. he was just so good it makes my heart hurt. he was technically a way better guitarist than anyone mentioned in this thread but spent most of his time bowing wood to make weird badger noises and designing fonts... i don't have the time to eulogise properly, i will have to start a thread

i know SBJ owns some hans reichel records but idk if he was influenced by him. i suppose extensive acoustic hammer ons &c. are p rare. if you ever get the chance to see SBJ you absolutely should though, the sound is just fantastic live. a lot of the right hand stuff looks incredibly straightforward & elegant but it's obv completely impossible to replicate. also basho's voice is amazing, gtfo

there's a copy of that first kottke rekkerd on ebay at the moment, only $10 ending tomorrow... (not my auction.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEO-KOTTKE-12-String-Blues-RARE-PRIVATE-PRESS-Pre-John-Fahey-Oblivion-1969-/290949519223

Nice write-up of the upcoming Danny Paul Grody record from Aquarium Drunkard, along with a track from the record. Very mellow, but it is really lovely. Some sweet Neu!-ish guitar tones on it, with a nice slow build.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/07/29/danny-paul-grody-between-two-worlds/

Definitely the kinda thing I dig, but might be slight for some of the hard-liners on here.