NY audience seemed scared to laugh at his rambly sermonizing until he explicitly told them it was okay
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
http://babysallright.com/new-events/2014/3/25/lonnie-holley?view=calendarwith Arturo Lindsay in BK on April 15!!
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
'sandman' video was great and very illuminating.
dude is damaged from a very rough upbringing (regularly abused and neglected as a kid, was put into a coma for quite some time after being hit by a car) but is routing that damage into a purely creative life.
the thing to know about his albums is that they're recordings of primarily improvisational art; he doesn't play the albums live (or at least he doesn't based on the conversation i had with dust/digital guys a year ago). he just does whatever he's feeling.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
saw him last night at Baby's All Right and he was amazing. Solid jazz drummer with him.i gave him a cup at the end of the show and i got a hug. i heard from the drummer (who i subsequently facebook friended later on) that he was calling it the "big thumb cup" and integrated it into immediate found art with a discarded umbrella he found on the street. I'm part of a lonnie holley piece!
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
er, i mean a cup i made. pottery.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
aw!
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
it's really the best news i've gotten today
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
that's rad!
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
i feel lucky to have seen holley perform, it was wonderful
― marcos, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
me too, i was totally inspiredi'm glad you gave him a cool mug!
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
he was awesome about itit was a mug with a long handle and he dug it because he could get his thumb in theredude has huge handsso he gives me a hug and says "this is woooonnderful. you tell em on their facebooks i said" *massive grin, raises huge knobby thumb "THUMBS UP"
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
i was telling a friend after that listening to lonnie is like listening to pharoah sanders as far as intensity and sheer OUT THERE-ness but far less taxing and difficult. there's something about his growly voice, the southern drawl, the stream of consciousness storyline, the amazing sense of timing to get LOUD and soft and pull within, the loopy melodies and all that sounds like home to me and i just fall directly into it. so so accessible and enjoyable.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
that's a great post and sentiment but I can't help but hang my head that many people link sanders is "taxing and difficult." sanders is JOYOUS, man.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
THINK sanders
he is to me too but it doesn't come immediate and natural on a great many of his albums and i'm not ashamed to say it.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
and there's nothing wrong with being difficult! i'm sure some people would find lonnie difficult to get into a groove with. something about my body chemistry and upbringing make it easy and the occasional sanders recording hard.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
of course this is me flipping through digital sanders albums and finding lots of stuff that's equally joyous.karma, thembi, most of the impulse stuff is all perfectly accessible. maybe i'm thinking of a later set of albums?black unity, i remember that one's a bit hard. i dunno, maybe this is the universe telling me to revisit dude's discog.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
hold this space for a complete 360 in two weeks
Black Unity is one of the more "intense" Sanders recs imo
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
totallyhave you heard izipho zam? (i think that's right) it's classic era groovyman do i love pharaoh sanders and i guess lonnie holley has a bit of thatalthough his band when i saw him was the most subdued bunch of people i've ever seen
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
dunno that one. am currently spinning 'finest' and am managing pretty darn well
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
maybe i haven't heard the right (wrong?) sanders records. but he has too much groove to be the kind of thing i think of as especially "difficult." maybe it's just taste/background.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
i finally bought those two dust-to-digital albums after first seeing him perform in 2013. he is wonderful.
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
he's got some new material out, including this slick video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3cz9FgGnA
apparently he's played shows with animal collective and seems to be finding a bigger audience
― ogmor, Friday, 14 September 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Had this on loop for a while now and it gets more chilling with each listen. Very excited for the new album.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 15 September 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
This album is great! Definitely one of the best things i've heard in the last year or more.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
i have to revisit it! listened once or so but didn't spend much more time than that. i love the previous two records, and his art
― marcos, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
yeah I really dig the new one, and I still haven't heard the older ones!
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 January 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
new ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!! going in.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
awesome, thanks
― sleeve, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
oh fuck yeah, I love this guy's stuff so much
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
same. this popped out without me hearing anything about it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRyR1XTFWSM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
"we're beyond voodoo and hoodoo, we're in the realm of you do and i do"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
AND just found this bit of stealth promotion on Adult Swim's late night show "FishCenter"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCvp_D7E7Q4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxiNxcDjia4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDkmKGp0f4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
recently scored a used copy of the MITH 2xLP and I really think it's becoming one of my very favorite albums of the last decade
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Monday, 9 November 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
it's up there! "i woke up in a fucked up america" occurs to me every so often.
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and "Sometimes I Wanna Dance"--both of those are here, along w 2020 EP and remix:https://lonnieholley.bandcamp.com/
― dow, Monday, 9 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Streaming this Friday: https://bigearsfestival.org/lonnie-holley
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
early tracks from his collaboration with Matthew E White are very very promising; this is greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0o_g8RitDohttps://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/matthew-e-white-lonnie-holley-broken-mirror-a-selfie-reflection/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
Just heard him talk after a listening session for his new album that Moor Mother, Michael Stipe, Bon Iver , and others guest on.
He will be presenting an art piece he made to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday morning and then will perform from 4 to 4:30 et at the National Gallery of Art in DC tomorrow as part of a 2 to 4:30 program on Black folk art . It will be live and streamed
https://www.nga.gov/calendar/lectures/conversations-with-artists/work-world-called-create.html/2023/03/10/1400
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 March 2023 03:22 (one year ago) link
What a harrowing childhood he had . He’s a survivor.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 March 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
New album is a Pitchfork best
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
Need to listen to the new one. He's great, he was in town here a few weeks ago to open a gallery show ahead of Big Ears, which he's performing at. He's kind of become a Big Ears regular, he does lots of things including art programs. Always seems like just a super sweet guy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
Uuuuhhh yeah this is incredible. Like a modern day version of Tom Waits’ Bone Machine. This is gonna tear it up in the EOY list season
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 18 March 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link
https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/manifesto-lonnie-holley
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 18 March 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
https://images.ctfassets.net/adaoj5ok2j3t/6P56tyrwF0rBwbdrAKK6yj/3cb2a5b78af222d6db6d36b9f9641e23/manifesto-lonnie-holley-eso-tolson-wepresent-poster.jpg?w=1800&fm=webp
Folk-artist and performer Lonnie Holley will be backed by Lee Bains, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage tonight from 6 to 7 pm Eastern US time. The show is free but ticketed. It will also be streamed on the Millennium Stage Youtube & Facebook pages
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2024/february/lonnie-holley/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 February 2024 15:38 (seven months ago) link
I enjoyed that performance with Holley backed Alabaman Lee Bains, and the Fugazi rhythm section
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:41 (seven months ago) link
do his vocals remind any one else of Van Morrison? giving the 1st Holley a spin today and I was just listening to Common One a couple days ago
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:45 (five months ago) link
Maybe but I don’t think so.
anyway I see that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s gift filing memo acknowledges that she has received artwork of value for her office from Lonnie Holley.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:03 (three months ago) link