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

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.

i'm playing tonight! nervous as hell!

http://s15.postimg.org/vcqiz3o97/sativa610.jpg

Good luck man! Cool poster.

knock em dead, blind joe helg

enjoy it! if you get bored/tired throw in a long re-tuning break

That Cotten/Anderson split is really lovely, thanks for posting.

haha i have to retune a bunch of times, it's hard to write a set-list for this stuff because you have to kind of divide it by tuning, like DADGAD then open D then standard drop D then standard then open C to end

Just buy a few more guitars ....

I think a big part of performing this stuff well is navigating the tuning/story telling moments. I am an awful tuner live for some reason. I can do it super-fast at home, but put me on a stage and I lose the ability to quickly find the notes.

Obviously a joke, though I am sure we would all like an extra guitar or two.

i remember the thing that most impressed my friend when he saw glenn jones was his ability to strum all the strings once and retune completely while they were ringing

I can do this at home most of the time! Just not in front of people. But yeah, even on a very humid night in Virginia Glenn made tuning pretty painless and minimal for the audience.

One bonus of playing solo is the strings just have to be in tune with each other, you don't have to actually be in tune with anyone else (i.e. the key is relative, unless you are singing over it I guess).

yeah i wish i could ear tune better....i got one of those little tuners that clips to the headstock, those thing work great and you can just leave it on

good luck matt!

knock em dead, champ

nother grody writeup, same track ('grass nap') tho

http://soundcolourvibration.com/2013/07/15/danny-paul-grody-between-two-worlds/

i'm anticipating!

yeah that's really good, he can do meditative stuff without seeming really "windham hill"

There was another track from the D. P. Grody record posted somewhere, meant to plop it down here but forgot. I like it even more than this one, though this is cool too. Some of the electric playing reminds me of Neu!, which I may have stated above. Will definitely be interested to see how varied the record is, cause yeah, this kinda thing can veer into w. hill territory pretty quickly but it seems like he takes a really good angle on most of it.

how did yr show go matt?

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

listening to a bunch of dean mcphee this evening

It went pretty well! Or as good as I could have expected... A few mistakes but nothing too glaring. Though, man, compared to rock bands I've played in mistakes stick out so much. But yeah felt good and confirmed what I already suspected about a couple of songs that I think aren't that good... Other band was cool, reminded me of pastoral hippie side of Popul Vuh