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

you guys haven't heard Fahey's version of "Tuff Enuff"? pretty rare, but worth seeking out.

hey does anyone want to contribute about 90 sec of noodling to a song for me? does not need to be recorded in a hi fi sort of way, send me a msg if you think this would be fun!

ums, somewhere I expressed similar amazement when I found a Sir Douglas Quintet best-of on Takoma, also after it was sold.

Huh, not sure what it would have meant at the time to use the Takoma label to market those kinds of records. Did it have much of a profile?

must've just been transitioning into being a "roots" label?

Guess so, the only logical conclusion I guess.

Also, Jimmie Vaughan does play with his fingers ....

ok that makes sense, in the article it just kind lists it like "Takoma grew a diverse roster of acts like blah blah blah, Fabulous Thunderbirds" like nbd and i wanted the "record scratch" sound to play like "WHAAAAT?"

always impressive to me that the fabulous thunderbirds had an album called Butt-Rockin'

mission statement

i hesitate to type what the title of the Takoma version of Butt-Rockin' would be

Requiem For a Turtle's Butt

lol, very good!

This thread contains multitudes.

I mean, I actually contemplated whether the turtle's butt was inside or outside of the shell ....

actually thought the Takoma version of Butt-Rockin' would be Butt-Pickin' but Requiem For a Turtle's Butt is better

Hah

haha, but anyway, in the vein of people on Takoma who aren't quite "Takoma" I've been really enjoying Norman Blake these days! was just digging Fields of November (which is pre-Takoma, I think, but is great).

Not very familiar with Norman Blake, will have to investigate. What is "not quite Takoma"-y about him?

Blake is an amazing player.... His early stuff on Flying Fish is great

yeah Fields of November is on Flying Fish. Not quite "Takoma" just because he's a bit more a of a straightforward folk/bluegrass kinda guy? vocals, fiddles, mandolins, etc. But yeah, he really is a great player, and the arrangements of the tunes are so nice.

Alright, sounds cool enough to me. Will look out for "Fields of November".

seems like his LPs are fairly easy to come by? At least the store where I grabbed that one had a bunch for cheap, now I need to go back...

The album Old and New is great

Cool, thanks for the further recs.

hey cool, New Bums are playing in my town on Friday!

whiskey before breakfast by norman blake is my jam

not loving ryley walker & ambivalent about the pastoral albion idyll but the best record w/in this threads' remit that evokes it is the DBH album that I have unsuccessfully repped here already, similar blend of solo guitar & pieces w/ violin/drums/piano/banjo/bass, but much fresher, more sensitive/interesting structurally/generally excellent. I'll link it once more in case someone hasn't had the opportunity to ignore it yet > http://open.spotify.com/album/4Oq8HJhXnjJucSwEGEyQMZ

also don't know if anyone is into bengali slide guitarist debashish bhattacharya, but he is touring the UK next month. an amazing guy, a virtuoso, he designs his own guitars too & they are gorgeous. here he is playing a 1300 year old raga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLk5iGC6Z6s

i like ryley but this DBH album is really amazing ogmor

but i do not see fancy pants return to albion fantasy folk as a competition there's enough sad unicorns to go around imo

2nding DBH. this long piano/string piece (climb and decend) was kind of unexpected... a standout so far

yeah it's really amazing

sounds like nylon strings on some songs

from peter lang on facebook :)

"My first concert was Gene Autry the singin' Cowboy in 1953 at the Old Minneapolis Auditorium. I was five then, and my father knew the head of Advertising at WCCO Radio in Minneapolis. He got me backstage, and I got to sit on Gene's lap during a radio interview. I had to go bad, but held it. Not long enough though and I pissed myself on the leg of the great Gene Autry. Gene was cool about it, he didn't throw me off his lap, or toss me against the wall, or anything like that. Gene was my hero, he knew it, and like all great cowboys he followed Cowboy Code (which he wrote). Mortified and in tears, he gave me a big hug, and told me that it was OK, and that he had plenty more embroidered, powder blue, cowboy pants, backstage."

awww

What a great story/quote. "He had plenty more embroidered, powder blue, cowboy pants backstage"

"Oh no it's fine... I've got PLENTY more embroidered, powder blue, cowboy pants backstage, yeah... Thanks a bunch, kid."

Seriously though that is a sweet story.

I don't see much correlation between the DBH accompanists and how Ryley's partners use theses same instruments on his album. Using the same instruments shouldn't, by default, make someone place these two records side by side and feel like you gotta choose the winner. Ryley's stuff goes to places much much different than the pieces on Time Flies. For some I'd say DBH is a bit too peppy and fresh, it's much much more accessible in the vein of standard finger picky acoustic albums.

I've always wondered why it is that when you see an album dig itself into a tight corner, carve itself a spot within a small niche, it comes across as idealized in some peoples ears. The albums in this thread more so than other music I listen to, the cynic in me can see why some of this material seems idealized and a kinda "okay here IT is, this is IT, i've perfected this niche with a proper bookend; full stop, etc". When in the end all these players are just some dudes who did some stuff in their spare time, not much more than that. The pedestal-placement kind of thinking happens a bit too much sometimes with these albums; it's just random dudes who probably aren't asking us to dive into their brain and assume they had some grand master plan to define a niche of music. Besides making some tunes, there isn't much else going on here.

Debashish is a guy though on a much higher level than what goes on in this thread though. He does indeed earn respect the world over and is a living piece of history. He has rightfully earned every honor and sky high pedestal that he's been placed onto. And it does look like he just takes it all in a stride and carries his fair share of down to earth humble-ness. He does a lot of small and large festivals, like the type that your local city puts on every summer. He came through Virginia a couple years back for our generic Richmond Folk Festival and completely sucked in the crowd with the pieces he played in the tiny tent that we all gathered in. The tabla player is his brother and his daughter is amazing(ly beautiful) too. His family is defiantly a part of classical Indian royalty by now and deserves all ears in the current crop of experimental-raga-obsessors.

When in the end all these players are just some dudes who did some stuff in their spare time

Wow! No shit Sherlock

aw ya habiby it's okay

New Tashi Dorji album is now streaming on Marmara Records Bandcamp page. It'll be out in no time I'm fairly sure. Cassette release.

Kind regards,
Mr Oblivious

I won't post them here so as to not clog up the thread but the youtube user 'TV LIES' recently posted a couple Fahey interviews that I don't think have been upped before.

https://www.youtube.com/user/michieljaveline/search?query=fahey

nice! looks good.
here's my review of the RSD alvarius b./richard bishop split + glenn jones EP. http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/04/14/rsd-guitar-soli-alvarius-b-and-sir-richard-bishop-glenn-jones/
and an amazing live version of Cian Nugent + Cosmos' "Houses of Parliament" http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/82708659484/the-houses-of-parliament-cian-nugent-the
and a great preview of the Solar Motel Band live thing coming out on Record Store Day too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4DKjBeDws

that AB/SRB split isn't actually out yet, right? Really want that thing.

no, comes out on Record Store Day this Saturday (same with the Jones).
will be available digitally too, if you don't do the RSD thing: http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-dont-like-it-dont

There's another new Alvarius B. record coming out soon, called What One Man Can Do with an Acoustic Guitar, Surely Another Can Do with His Hands Around the Neck of God:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ABDT.053LP.html

I didn't get a chance to check out the solo record he put out last year yet, I imagine it's impossible to find a copy by now. Loved The Invisible Hands record, but that's a whole different thing.

haha, that is a great title

hey I have a sealed extra copy that I will sell for less than whatever Discogs lists, maybe $25? xp

hit me up on ilx mail if u want

thanks for the heads up on the new LP also!

A lot of good stuff posted here. Just checked out that T. Dorji set on the Marmara bandcamp page, and I like it though I need to listen some more. I feel like other recordings I have listened to mixed it up a bit more, but the last track in particular I like a lot. More space, some nice detail and more direct playing mixed in with the buzzing/percussive/more out stuff. Heard an electric track recently that didn't work as well for me, but still interested to see where he takes his playing.

That Forsyth live clip is definitely good, just love the live sound of that band. Couldn't hear the organ/keyboards that well in the mix, though when I could I really liked the addition. Maybe it was just so integrated that I missed when it was there at times?

About to dive into that Cian Nugent live track Tyler shared!

did i mention that chasny said he was starting a label and putting out a tashi dorji LP (culled from some of his cassettes) this summer? dorji seems like an interesting dude, apparently he has major chops (berklee trained?).

Yeah, that came up somewhere (I imagine here), think when you gave the rundown of the New Bums show. He plays with a lot of control (it seems), the stuff he does seems to come from a considered and not wild/aggro place, so it wouldn't surprise me if he could play straight up guitar-as-guitar very well.