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

damn that is some open mic swagger.
salsburg makes me think of the nic jones style of playing mostly, but yeah, i really love that new album. definitely more polished than some of the stuff here, but lots of lovely moments.

btw, sir richard bishop just dropped four (!) new albums (download only) over here -- http://deliradio.com/sir-richard-bishop
haven't listened yet, but I'm going to check them out. was just thinking it had been a quiet year from him....

haha, "Nile (Music For Dance) is 35 minutes worth of a slow, two-chord middle eastern groove. so good.

Hiowdy!!! Ragtime Ralph here...thank you for the positive posts...I'm still playing lots...I'll be 62 in March...I play slower now because I gave up fingerpicks because they were aggavating my tendonitis...currently I am playing lots of slack key and Hawai'ian guitar...which I plan to record soon under the title "Haole Blues"...In the last few years I've played in New York at the release party for the Dust To Digital Fahey Fonotone box set where I met my hero Joe Bussard...played in Portland, Oregon at a Fahey birthday celebration...and in Kona, Hawai'i at Humpys Bar while we were on vacation...currently
(since 2001) I am playing Dix...an early '30s Regal wood bodied resonator which suits my guitar needs perfectly!!!

Cheers! Blind Brand X/Ragtime Ralph/RC Johnston.

Hey Ralph / RC - love all the stuff of yours that Delta Slider has posted. Glad you're still playing, too! is there a reason those recordings you did for takoma haven't been issued officially ever? they are fantastic.

also! darn good bachman track over here - http://www.thefader.com/2013/11/25/stream-daniel-bachmans-coming-home-the-first-release-of-new-labelpublication-singles-club/
part of a new singles club kinda thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/singles-club/singles-club-record-club-and-music-journal

Hi Ralph, love your music!

yeahhhh your post had me listening to vol. 4 this morning. seriously a classic LP! why hasn't some label put this out on vinyl?

salsburg is a player for sure

I came to John Schott's blog via the books on music thread--he's very well-read, but also, dig this post, re his fellow Bay Area guitarists of the 90s (Duck Baker plays Herbie Nichols, on Spinning Songs, yesss! Tracks I've heard are so down-to-earth dazzling---in effect, both acoustic and electric, whether plugged-in or not) http://www.johnschott.com/2011/09/07/95/

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cool friday is payday i'm gonna order something from tompkin's

Man, this time of year is tough with vacations/holidays/gifts, not sure when I am going to buy all the records I want to. Gotta give myself a gift card or something.

cool news -- new marisa anderson album: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-and-public-domain-songs-2

Oh yeah, gonna listen to this right now! Thanks Tyler.

Cool song, made me want to listen to "Mercury" again, which I am going to do.

Here is Daniel Bachman playing Kensington Blues by Jack Rose (RIP 2009-12-05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DkWPYeblS4

Peace!

This is pretty endearing, posted by Nathan Bowles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482GocrgP8s

soft abuse (my friend's label that put out the last bowles record) just put out a new record by a guy name matthew gennaro:

https://soundcloud.com/soft-abuse/matthew-de-gennaro-the-plumb

it's pretty cool...lots of drone fiddle...real sparse guitar picking...def on the more drone/experimental side of this thread...this song is among the more droney though, some stuff is a bit more american primitive

but either way cool worth checking out, support the label he's a cool guy!

damn, that is gorgeous, thanks for passing it along!

Uggh, my computer has been crap lately. Can't get that soundcloud to stream right now, but that sounds right up my alley. I own at least 3 or 4 Soft Abuse records I think, good label.

listening on spotify now, really nice

DeGennaro is great. Check out his earlier stuff: http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2009/01/matthew-de-gennaro-under-sun-2002-5.html
Pretty nice Psych Folk.
In the same vein is early Brad Rose/Digitalis Ind. Project The North Sea - which turned after 2007 in some kind of (cosmic) synth noise.

Underneath the Jesus Tree and Exquisite Idols are recommended.
Similar also to the whole Jewelled Antler/Skygreen Leopards/Donovan Quinn family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sL-RTm_q8

Could be Takoma/Fahey related in terms of using collage techniques/ragas/freeform guitar strumming :)

And talking about Soft Abuse.

Jeffery Davison played something by Langtry in one of hist last shows.
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53106

It was released by Soft Abuse in 2005 and it's some dude from Iron & Wine.
Stream Snippets on Amazon: http://bit.ly/1cqQ5Ke
http://www.softabuse.com/catalog.php?catno=SAB007

It's not bad, but also not essential...

Finally got to listen to that DeGennaro song, really pretty stuff.

Hah nice, soundcloud went right to Herman Dune & Cerberus Shoal. Dig that record.

together? don't know that one but I love the 3 of 4 Cerberus Shoal records I have

Not sure they play together on many songs, but it was a split record: http://www.discogs.com/Cerberus-Shoal-Herman-D%C3%BCne-The-Whys-And-Hows-Of-Herman-Dune-And-Cerberus-Shoal/release/1322713

The John Fahey Movie/Documentary is on the BBC website for streaming:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03kw2g3/In_Search_of_Blind_Joe_Death_The_Saga_of_John_Fahey/
You need to tinker around with VPN/Proxy, if you sit outside of the UK. (Browserplugin like Hola or ZenMate should work). Good Luck (maybe it works for the US anyway)

Awesome thank you! Didn't know about Hola works great

Was Nick Schillace ever mentioned here?
I love his stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpoM2k9nrxI

He has 2 Solo Guitar records out:
http://nickschillace.bandcamp.com/album/box-canyon

He's now more active in the Folk duo Lac LaBelle.
I had the opportunity to see/meet him this year on a gig in Chicago.
It was fun to see them play.

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

http://www.laclabellemusic.com/

Nick Schillace also wrote his Master Thesis about Fahey.
It was a pretty enlightening read for me.
http://scribd.com/doc/105858632/Nick-Schillace-Master-Thesis

cheeers!

Yep I think he's come up... He's great

The Fahey Docu is now also on youtube for easier access:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURop95fNEY

hi y'all, i don't post a lot in this thread but i just wanted to give respect and thanks for everyone that does. so much great stuff in here. i've long been a big fan of metzger, rose, basho-junghans, bishop, valentine, fahey, et al. and various other raga blues and this thread is very generous. thanks! maybe i'll try to post more.

zowie i need to watch that fahey doc...
currently being reminded that this is gorgeous, still haven't gotten the whole LP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYn7WpgLg48&feature=youtu.be

Damn! The doc was taken down.

Yeah, was all set to watch it last night only to find it down as well. Bummer.

I bought it. $17 on Amazon

some new (to me) names on the new Imaginational Anthem comp, not familiar with these guys but like all the songs:

Richard Crandell (love this one)
Matt Baldwin
George Stavis
R. Keenan Lawler

R. Keenan Lawler is cool. I remember listening to tracks on his Myspace page!

Whoa, that Blackshaw song is gorgeous, don't know how I missed that album.

Yeah that Blackshaw/Melnyk song is cool. Good mix of playing styles and just a lush lush sound.

yeah it actually seems pretty far afield from a lot of the stuff in this thread -- not a trace of "americana" to be found in there (though maybe that was always true of Blackshaw for the most part). More of a modern chamber music kinda deal. But yeah, so beautiful.

I SO need to hear that, I love Glass Bead Game

I am biased, but the guitar/piano duo is a good sound when put in the right hands. I wonder if the whole record mines the sound of that track or if it covers other territory (not that I wouldn't listen to a good hour or more of that sound, it's the kind of thing I can really settle into).

Also, big thanks Tyler for providing my first listen to that Black Dirt Oak record, I really like the song included in that write-up. Guess the record will be all over the place, but that song seems pretty much just to be Nathan and someone doing minimal accompaniment on some stringed instrument or another (or I guess percussion, though really dinky and somewhat tonal percussion?)

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/12/10/black-dirt-oak-wayawanda-patent/

I envy your promo list, but not your difficult task of providing a year's end best-of for this particular year! Definitely look forward to seeing your list though.

yeah the Black Dirt Oak thing is a cool record -- i wouldn't say it's essential or anything, but there's definitely a lot to enjoy. that track posted might be the most straightforward thing, it gets pretty spacey / weird in other places.
kinda working on the year-end stuff now. slowly.

listening to this this morning: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Twig_Pickers_and_Steve_Gunn/NATCH_1/
totally great, kind of amazing they just put it up for free.

Yeah, I sent that Gunn/Black Twigs session to everyone I knew at some point. The last track ("Salted Caramel") is a doozy in regards to slowly unfolding acoustic psych. Was what I hoped the Bachman/Pelt collaboration at Hopscotch would be similar to, but it just didn't materialize. A little too heavy on the harmoniums, not enough guitar.