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

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

Other band was cool, reminded me of pastoral hippie side of Popul Vuh
tell me more about that pls

Glad the show went well UMS! Playing solo is so much more harrowing than playing with a band, for exactly the reason you mention. I still get massive butterflies playing solo ....

LL - they are called Sativa Flats, album forthcoming, mostly guitar/bass/synth/flute/efx pedals

enjoying this one, though it is pretty straightforward. probably more cooder-esque than anything, but some of y'all might like it
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2881/9460128054_9ac3803572_z.jpg
http://store.trekkyrecords.com/product_info.php?products_id=252

no drums?
iiiinteresting
also congrats on your show!

i will dl their bandcamp song when i get home -- sounds good so far! thx for the tip.

A good place as any to post this, given that we see Mr. Bowles every time we load this thread. Not new school American Primitive necessarily, but really cool, spooky improv percussion stuff:

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

First track reminds me of some of the Jos Gansemans recordings I've heard.

Yeah, those Verrastro/Bowles songs are pretty cool. I have seen Verrastro's band Kohoutek a few times, they can be great on the right night. He's a good drummer for sure, as is Nathan (amongst all the other stuff he is good at). Think one or two of those tracks are posted above actually.

Another Glenn Jones interview (pretty long one too). Really enjoy listening to Glenn talk, and he gets time to go into a bunch of stuff, though I only got halfway through so far.

http://vishkhanna.com/2013/08/13/ep-23-glenn-jones/

Note that at one point Glenn does a Fahey voice impression. Brief but pretty funny.

Made it seven minutes. This is exactly the kind of interviewer I would like to punch in the throat. Like, it's not about you, dude. And what the fuck was with the whole "why don't you wanna have kids, Glenn?" business?? So fucking invasive and idiotic. Frankly I admire Jones's forbearance here. He's awesome and deserves better.

That's a messed up interview question! Geez. What's wrong with ppl?!

I paused it, (not turned it off, mind you,) at the part where the interviewer was talking about how if American Pie were 'some little indie tune' everyone would be saying 'it's the best song ever.' I am not in the mood to really give a long interview a chance anyway but we'll see if I muster the courage to continue... don't wanna shit on grandavis for posting it, thread needs stuff like that, but... yeah

Hah, shit away dude, not too concerned. The interviewer is let's say "not the best", but I was able to tune him out pretty easily. Glenn is certainly a gentleman, and he just rolled with whatever and still had some cool shit to say. I don't know, I love hearing folks talk about their music/history if they are compelling, and I just think Glenn's an interesting guy. Can understand why this would be hard to get through for some, but it certainly broke up my work day.

did we already talk about this? new nathan salsburg out sept. 17
https://soundcloud.com/nathansalsburg/first-field-path
preview track is very nice, maybe more renbourn-y than anything else?

yeah i like salsburg a lot and he does feel a bit more UK

i always wonder about that, there seems to be no shortage of ppl continuing the traditions of US folk, fahey, takoma, etc, but are there guys in the UK doing the same for Jansch, Renbourne, Graham, etc?

i have this ben reynolds LP from a few years back that's in that vein - http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/17
good stuff, i should listen again.
this dude too - http://cjoynes.bandcamp.com - call his music "anglo-naive" which is a funny play on american primitive

salsberg and jim elkington had a great album couple years back calle Avos sooo good

yeahhhh, i like that one. need to listen to it some more.
elkington and janet bean just put out this record that seems at least in part a tribute to the davy graham/shirley collins record
https://soundcloud.com/fluffandgravy/dying-tree-1/s-eKnfo

http://savekusf.podomatic.com/entry/2013-08-10T10_27_44-07_00

podcast on SAVE KUSF featuring performances entirely from the tompkins square 'obscure giants of the acoustic guitar' trading card series... looks great, will listen tomorrow..

haha yeah....peter mentioned those cards....i think he took it as kind of an insult to be called "obscure"