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

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"

Damn man, the Three Lobed and Paradise of Bachelors day parties just got announced, and damn if they both aren't essentially loaded to the gills with folks I would have personally booked for my own personal wish-list of folks I wanna see live these days. of Bac

Three Lobed = Thurston Moore/John Moloney duo, Desert Heat, Glenn Jones, Magik Markers, Tom Carter, Jenks Miller band (only act I haven't listened to here), w/ Mike Gangloff & Nathan Bowles playing between sets.

Paradise of Bachelors = Steve Gunn (full band), Spacin', Chrish Forsyth & Solar Motel Band, Pelt + Daniel Bachman, The Black Twig Pickers, Birds of Maya, Lonnie Holley, Promised Land Sound, special guests TBA

Oh, and yeah, both shows are FREE, i.e, you don't have to pay for Hopscotch at all to go. Just realized I live about 3 1/2 hours from Raleigh, can day trip it for Saturday (if I can swing it ....) Anyone gonna be at this?

ughhh, yeah, saw that. pretty much amazing lineup of artists!

Yeah, if I can't go that "ughhh" will be coming from my mind as well. Flights to Raleigh may be cheap. The shows are free at least (this will be part of the pitch to my wife).

just got an email from this fella: http://haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com/album/seven-years-late-marmara-records
sounds good, seems to be mixing in fingerstyle stuff w/ some ambient pieces...

I like this Pedigo record! Dude can play, and some of the "ambient" stuff is cool, definitely mixes it up. Maybe a bit too uniformly pretty at first listen, not much edge, but has promise for sure.

yeah i dug it! apparently he is compiling the next imaginational anthem.

Whoa, guess he's on the old radar. But yeah, he can really play. Title track in particular I dug. Plus: singing. Looks pretty damn young in the bandcamp photo, can be hard to tell though.

Jeez those parties are practically
"This Thread:The Festival"

Haha, yeah man, it's ridiculous. Don't think I can swing the Three Lobed one at all (would need to skip work), but Saturday may be a real thing. Wish I could put Tom Carter on that bill, but hell, if I make it I will not be complaining at all.

file under: #swag

http://img1.targetimg1.com/wcsstore/TargetSAS//img/p/13/19/13190343.jpg

Kinda want that for the cover

just a guy in his PJs and fedora, hanging by the lake, kicking some advanced chord progressions

if anyone on this thread is a west coaster, my bro P.G. Six is playing some solo shows -- he's a fantastically underrated guitar player and an all around awesome dude.

8.22.13 - Seattle, WA - Barboza - W/ Scout Niblett

8.23.13 - Vancouver, BC - The Cobalt - W/ Scout Niblett

8.24.13 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios - W/ Scout Niblett

8.29.13 - San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord - W/ Michael Beach, Scout Niblett

8.30.13 - Los Angeles, CA - Human Resources - W/ Scout Niblett

8.31.13 - San Diego, CA - Tin Can Alehouse - W/ Scout Niblett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5J4RqGmgy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_wzFLkRy3A

^^ Jeffrey Cain cover

i saw PG open for high llamas a million years ago. he is great! really liked that last one, starry night.

starry mind! ;)

these shows are solo, so no full band psych jams, but he's an incredible performer. love that dude so much.

an oldie --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-NnjFHi3U

lol starry night. right.