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

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.

Definitely enjoyed that Hans Reichel vid as well! I had looked for some footage myself and found mostly the bowed-wood shit myself (which is cool, but would rather watch him play his bizarre guitars instead). Wild musician.

xp heyyy, i wrote that. totally great record imo.

listening to a promo of this upcoming gunn - truscinski - cian nugent collaboration this morning. does not disappoint.
http://mie.limitedrun.com/news/posts/2518-desert-heat-cat-mask-at-huggie-temple-12

Hah, I know Tyler! Trying not to make you too self-conscious. Great write-up. Jealous of your promo-pile these days for sure.

speaking of stuff that's more out there, the guy who inspired this thread Nathan Bowles has a new weird percussion record out w.Scott Verrasto

https://soundcloud.com/miemusic/nathan-bowles-scott-verrastro

Nathan's work with the later incarnations of Pelt is also v worthwhile tbrr

yeah i want to do a write-up of the pelt universe at some point, but it's hard to keep up! dudes are prolific.

Yeah, I just saw mention somewhere of a Mike Gangloff/Steve Gunn collab coming out in the future (unless I dreamed that up on my own). Scott Verastro is a good drummer/percussionist, seen him several times. Stuff I have heard from that release has been cool. Writing up the Pelt universe is definitely a large task. There was a decent piece on Pelt itself in the Wire a while back, but I would love more. Glad Mike and Nathan live relatively nearby, I get to see them play a few times a year these days (if not more), which is great.

If anyone is looking for some more mellow but "out" stuff, I actually just got a recording of my duo Grand Banks opening for Nathan Bowles a couple of weeks ago. I am really proud of it, though please only those who are truly interested take a listen. Seemed like a good time to post it due to the N. Bowles tie-in though, and at times it is not too dissimilar from the Danny Paul Grody track just posted. Pretty droney/minimal, but with plenty of straight guitar playing through a lot of it, along with piano/organ and some other instruments:

https://soundcloud.com/grand-banks/grand-banks-live-7-15-2013

this is radical, thanks for posting....

Thanks man, I really appreciate it.

I hope to have a copy of the N. Bowles set at some point as well, though I'll have to check that it's cool to share it. Friend of mine has been recording all of the folks coming through Charlottesville, wanna get him to post them somewhere but we'll see.

i liked it too! admittedly i didn't listen to the whole thing, but it sounds good and interesting and i followed you on soundcloud.

oh wow you're in grand banks?? i saw you play, uh, probably ten years ago in providence, at a gig at as220 with freakzone and some other ppl.
strange world! i still have the flier for that gig.

Wow, thanks La Lechera. Considering some of the stuff you dig that is flattering, but yeah we might be slightly up your alley.

Ian, we never really toured, though we have played out of town a few times. Never got up to Providence though. We were friends/aquaintances with a lot of Providence folks cause I booked/ran a space here in Charlottesville called the Pudhaus that a lot of Providence bands played in, but yeah, no Providence shows for us personally. My guess is that you saw another band called Grand Banks. Never heard of the other one though, and we have been playing on and off since 2001. Funny.

yo but... but.. the flier says "GRAND BANKS" and under that it says "pud house drone, va" and i even think i have a recollection of your set??
THIS FLIER:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2q3srdf.jpg

is it possible you were scheduled to play at some point but did not?

Hah hah yes it is entirely possible, that poster is definitely referring to us. I do remember an aborted tour at one point, cause I broke my ankle. Wow, had totally forgotten that! Jeremy Harris always tried to get us to tour, and we just kinda had setback after setback in that regard. Wild man.

You should come to Chicago! We have lots of venues and local bands you would fit right in with. Clean/decent places, with chairs! Respectful appreciative audience, albeit small. Can give you suggestions if you're interested but I am not an insider so that's about all I can offer.

In other news: bummed that I missed Glenn Jones' set at a recent folk fest thing and also missed his show at this other place -- there was toooooo much going on that week. Looking forward to his album with Chris Corsano, apparently?!

oh no kidding, he's doing a whole record with corsano? that would be awesome -- the one track they do on The Wanting is killer.

Le Lechera, we always meant to go to Chicago actually. We have good friends there, we just had a lot of things working against the old "touring" thing, but I am trying to play out a bunch more, and get both solo and Grand Banks recordings together, so if we ever get it together I will let you know and maybe hit you up for local band info.

Glenn was so good live, I had his songs stuck in my head for days, and his stories and demeanor onstage are just so cool (to me at least). Hopefully the good press he is getting these days will keep him on the road. Would be reall interested to see what a G. Jones/Corsano collab would be like, cause I can't quite picture it.

here's that track - http://vimeo.com/49377038
obviously corsano's a bit more laid back than usual since glenn is playing acoustic, but it definitely works up a head of steam.

That Jones/Corsano track is great, but I am a huge Corsano fan so not surprising that I dig it. Wish I had bought "The Wanting" from Glenn when he was here, have meant to get it for a long time but sprung for the new one instead.

I have my first real gig doing solo acoustic stuff

Some guys I know do an improve night called Sativa Flats and I'm going to do a guest 30 min set in the middle

Good luck Matt, sounds like a cool show. You should try to get someone to record it!

Oops, sorry UMS, won't happen again.

Thanks & don't worry I think most ppl me by my govt name from time to time

Cool, will still try to be careful in the future. Have meat to change my display name forever, but I am too lazy. Just not gonna worry about it for now. And yeah, record that set if you can ...

break a leg (string?), ums.
listening to this this morning: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marisa_Anderson/Live_at_WFMU_on_Shrunken_Planet_April_28th_2012/

Excited to dig into that Marisa Anderson live set. WFMU/Free Music Archive have been representing this thread pretty well, and definitely interested to see what Marisa live is like, especially if she improvises it all on the spot.

i really like how she brings a bit of a delta slide type flair into what she does w/o seeming like just a blues pastiche or corny

yeah, deeply bluesy without being "bluesy." if that makes sense. even a bit of out of tune-ness/dissonance, which brings some of that delta style to mind too.

Just listening to the interview right now, and it's really interesting. She is pretty engaging.

Interesting that she has had a lot of training and yet comes off as way less pristine and fussy than a lot of players. Lots of grit and some off notes, as well as a restlessness between "parts" of songs, or more I guess a willingness to digress whenever she feels like it, which she pulls off well imo.

For today's listening, just got passed a link to some Steve Gunn w/ the Black Twig Pickers recordings, and they sound great so far! Two actual songs (one with Gunn singing) and then a third track that seems like an improv but is just damn gorgeous so far:

https://soundcloud.com/#black-dirt/sets/natch-1

Talk about some musicians who have been on a roll the last couple of years. Sincerely hope these guys make records together.

Man, I freaking love this. All acoustic, and just so many cool tones provided throughout. Have listened to it about three times already, going in for another one.

Last track is somewhat like late-period Pelt when Jack was still around, but more laid-back. Since it is the Twigs I am not sure who all is playing, but some really nice instrumentation throughout.

yeah that whole natch series has some great stuff

Guess I gotta look into that series more, I had no idea that this existed.

coupla good things to listen to today
http://cotten-anderson7inch.bandcamp.com/ (that aforementioned elizabeth cotten/marisa anderson split)
Glenn Jones (with Laura Baird) - Irene Trudel’s Show, WFMU, East Orange, NJ, July 1, 2013 - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glenn_Jones/Live_on_WFMUs_Irene_Trudels_show_-_July_1st_2013_1868/

wouldn't mind hearing that whole cotten live recording, the two songs here sound great.