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

Digging "Since the Devil Is Gone" this am:

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2014/03/luke-hirst-breaking-hex.html?spref=tw

Nice little piece by our man Tyler here running down some upcoming releases from some old-school heavies, Bikoff, Tausig, and Suni McGrath, with songs from each of 'em.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/03/18/return-of-the-repressed-new-work-from-don-bikoff-harry-taussig-and-suni-mcgrath/

Happy to see folks like this get back on the wagon, as I am turning into an old man on whatever scene I am on myself, so I find it immensely inspiring seeing musicians older than myself putting out good records and playing shows.

heyyy, yeah, these are all quite good! The McGrath one is maybe a bit dodgy at points, but has its moments. The Taussig one gets pretty raw at times, almost Orcutt-ian!

this is cool - Dakota Dave is a Mpls folk scene stalwart!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608952014/classic-american-ragtime-guitar

fun fact: peter lang was telling me if i ever wanted to get acrylic nails for performing, he has a vietnamese woman that dakota dave hull taught how to do fingerpicking nails "the right way" and she's the fake nail jump-off for all the twin cities old timey music O.Gz

haha, sounds like a slippery slope, dude, be careful! "I started out just listening to Fahey records every now and again and before I knew it this Vietnamese woman was making me acrylic nails."

lol tyler.

i keep thinking about going to that lady. but i don't wanna have to like, shake someone's hand for work and have to explain american primitivism to someone asking about why i'm wearing fake nails

you guys need ilx's in orbit to make you some cool fake nails!

I'm just gonna dissolve my fingertips off and play with my fingerbones

no, don't do that! ~check it out~
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LiabilityNails

in other news, i have managed to play along somewhat passably with a roy montgomery song :D

too late. That wasn't pleasant!

i guess you can't use your finger bone nubs to press rewind on your life and not do that
might as well invest in some falsies!

here here for the long nailed freaks. i recently grew out mine and it sure gets a laugh between my wife and housemates when i break out the filer. i think it does help if you only have the thumb, index, and middle finger long. it helps explain it a little better than your entire hand looking weird.

my old roommate majored in jazz guitar at our university and throughout the classical guitar class, growing out your nails was a requirement. the professor passed on info about trying to avoid water when you can, haha. on the mornings that he had a recital, he would have to shower with his right hand hanging out of the curtain to avoid getting it wet. it is really helpful tip though, but those classical guys take it to extremes. i guess it is nice for certain people out in public to look at us and assume we are proficient classical guitar players! rather than just a fumbling mess around-er who is scared of standard tuning :)

Probably old news by now, but this new William Tyler track is lush: http://www.stereogum.com/1670738/william-tyler-whole-new-dude/mp3s/

sounds awesome, kind of a richard thompson tone happening at parts. excited that the rother cover is getting a release.

i didn't know that was out

yeah dig it! seems like a natural extension of where he seemed to be headed with the more elaborate (relatively) impossible truth (in comparison to behold the spirit)

he's got a good band sounds like

Looking forward to a band reworking of "We Can't Go Home Again", love that track

Nice group sound for sure, sounds like some of the O'Rourke stuff at times just in instrumentation/approach (end of Gastr's "Bauchredner" etc.), though maybe it's just the pedal-steel. Damn I love pedal-steel in the right context. Also reminds me in sound of my man Colin Langenus's Colin L. Orchestra at times (which a great track "You Need Sleep" is posted somewhere up above here, well worth revisiting if you want lush guitar/pedal-steel kraut-country leanings). Definitely interested to hear the W. Tyler full band sound over the length of a record. I assume it is a whole record of it, not just an isolated track, anyone know for sure?

Also, I love the hell out of "Bauchredner":

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

Yeah love that Colin L Orchestra, just a good rock album even beyond the 'country kraut' stuff

Yeah, Colin is great. Varied and weird guy, but a really good guitar player too.

Plankton Wat is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that new one is great - totally got the Popol Vuh thing down, but it's varied enough to be enjoyable on its own terms. Gotta get his other records.

BTW ilx brigade showcase this Thursday in MPLS, me & global t. are playing a show (African Kirar player up thread also on the bill)

haha, ilx brigade showcase, love it. gonna be a fun night!

this plankton wat is really cool. hard to tell how composed each song is. they almost sound like improvisations with added textures and stuff

Was waiting for this one to go down, psyched to see it is happening. Hope MPLS is ready for the ILX brigade takeover.

good luck dudes! will there be a bootleg.

live album of my android phone recording of this on tompkin's square for Record Store Day

(and thanks! been practicing like a motherfucker)

Will check all bootlegs out, whether crappy android phone recordings or otherwise. Make it happen!

only listen to pono now so if you guys can make that happen that'd be swell

coupla things I've heard recently -- the glenn jones record store day thing is excellent, though much too brief. one solo live track, a beautiful duet with jack rose and an even more beautiful duet with cian nugent. i'd like a whole live disc of jones, dude has it dialed in.
william tyler band EP is fucking stellar, just so good. will be the ultimate driving music this summer. rother cover fulfills all kraut-country-rock dreams.
hayden pedigo's forthcoming album (which he's mentioned in this thread) is really something else, too!

I really want to hear how that Pedigo record came about. Such a crazy list of collaborators, and guy is very young (right)? I assume it is long-distance file/track sharing, but still such a wild set of guests. I assume it would have to be something else (and Hayden can play really well of course).

Also, I sincerely hope that Glenn Jones finds a reason to come to my town/city at least once a year for the rest of his or my life. He is just such a damn enjoyable guy to listen to. I mean, even if he is still telling the same stories in 5 years I will enjoy them all over again and be psyched for the tunes. Hope he has a new full-length in the works too, think his from last year was my most-played record (still put it on all the time).

I'm dying for those Glenn Jones and William Tyler records.

was saying over on twitter that there needs to be a cian nugent & the cosmos / chris forsyth & solar motel band / william tyler band tour of US stadiums this summer. if stadiums don't work, maybe they should play craft breweries.

Yeah saw that. All-star jam at the end would be pretty killer. Just get a big bus and load-em all in. Aquarium Drunkard Rolling Revue?

Probably a broken record on this kind of thing, but there (seemingly) is real potential for those bands to cross over into more lucrative territories (which might still happen at some point). I was largely unsuccessful in trying to get a crossover crowd at the Forsyth show here, but turnout was still decent. I wanted to see how a bunch of folks weened on Phish/The Dead/Led Zeppelin/Zappa/etc. would dig them and for the most part didn't really get to see. My town is tiny though, and getting folks out to any show that isn't a big/established act is tough. Also, it would maybe be tougher on these bands than the typical jam-set to deal with the resulting crowds/people.

hayden has posted here a couple times iirc

was saying over on twitter that there needs to be a cian nugent & the cosmos / chris forsyth & solar motel band / william tyler band tour of US stadiums this summer. if stadiums don't work, maybe they should play craft breweries.

― tylerw, Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:32 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would die

also i feel like the Ryley Walker album should be out by now...when does that come out?

these guys should all embrace the jam crowd, those ppl actually come out and are loyal fans, you don't have to worry about pitchfork changing their mind about you in 6 months

Though you might overhear someone yelling "sweet licks bro!" at the stage

Well, you gotta embrace the noodle dance as well if you are going to go deep.

And yeah UMS, jam crowd loves jams and if you deliver they are yours (and prioritize live music, which is of course where money is at these days for the most part). I mean the upside is a devoted fan base, the downside is that some of that fan base is occasionally awful, but then again any crowd/fan base is gonna be complicated with any kind of real success. For these folks though they are delivering music that should excite that crowd.

'sup grandavis, sorry we missed each other!

cosign on the Hayden album, I gotta keep an eye out for that

breweries? no way, they should play outdoor amphitheaters
i wish i could be in a solar motel band -- that's my dream for this summer

there were definitely noodle dancing jam fans at the chicago solar motel band show btw

(not me)

i played in a band in the late 90s that was super typical 90s underground rock, think like elements of pavement & archers of loaf with a little more macho math rocky or angular stuff, time signatures of bands like polvo, shellac, etc

but we ended up doing a bunch of shows with this jam band called karma sluts and they were nice dudes that dug us a lot and the shows always went great! like the crowd was huge and the jam band fans always really got into us...actually because they didn't know any of the indie/post-punk bands we referenced i think they thought we were like super creative haha, but anyway we always sold a lot of cds and t-shirts and stuff so we kept doing it

Hey sleeve, sorry that week got so complicated. Next time!

Solar Motel Band was actually the only band that sounded GREAT at the Paradise of Bachelors outdoor day party last year (which was just an astoundingly pretty outdoor amphitheater), but that was more to do with the inadequate P.A. than the bands. They just had big enough amps to pull it off, plus no vocals to get in the way. Well, check that, Lonnie Holley also sounded great.

Couple noodle dancers at that PoB show too. I somehow resisted the groove ....

show last night went great....was fun to meet global who's a nice guy and a really amazing player....the kirar set was great too, such a cool instrument kind of splitting the difference between desert blues stuff and appalachian hammered dulcimer...

felt like i played ok...have a tendency to get nervous and take songs at a breakneck pace, then halfway through i'm hanging on for dear life....but didn't make too many bad mistakes

It was such a fun time! It was great to get my guitar out of my bedroom and into the world, as it were. I really enjoyed the kirar, was definitely hypnotic, and Estifanos was a super awesome dude, too. I enjoyed your shit a lot, also- your songs are really awesome and well crafted. Such good melodies! And ya, super cool to meet you. Didn't get as much time to chat as I thought, but c'est la vie. The only drawback is that it was after 11 at a bar and people were getting chatty, so it was hard to hear some of your stuff sometimes. I guess a bar maybe isn't like the most conducive environment for instrumental music, but I guess I'd rather play at a bar than a coffee place (I really enjoy drinking beer). Overall a fun night and one I want to make happen again... a guy I met after suggested the Kitty Kat Club, although I get an oppressively hip vibe from that place, so I dunno how weird instrumental stuff would go over there but never hurts to try I guess.

Which Cian Nugent album were you talking about last night, anyway? I admit ignorance when it comes to the 'Nuge.

i like the Kitty Kat Club as a place to play actually...

i need to get a pickup for my guitar...

new cian nugent is born with the caul, p amazing

but yeah fun nite overall