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

Can we talk about how horrible the Fahey comps on Spotify are? They're these dodgy things with really horrible cover art, mislabeled tracks, and some have this shit sounding fake reverb on em, AND they're the first results when you search for Fahey. How does this even happen, and is someone making money off of them? Because I'd pay for them to go away, honestly.

All the cover art is horrendous, but this one takes the cake, conceptually and aesthetically:

http://i.imgur.com/WvfOA1a.png

wow! that is kind of messed up.

lol, idk what copyright laxity has made him particularly vulnerable to this dreck but it makes it v hard to use. I made playlists of his actual releases (lots not on there ofc) which I've never had to do for anyone else

http://i.imgur.com/wGKbkdP.png

looks pretty definitive

Whoa. How DOES that end up on Spotify? Can you just throw a playlist together and call it an album and make the 50 cents a month in royalties you would get from this kind of thing?

Can we talk about how horrible the Fahey comps on Spotify are?

^^i don't know what it is but these are all over spotify for tons of people, search any major jazz artist and you'll see the whole discography cluttered with this shit

at least on the jazz side i think some of them are dodgy european comps

Must be some kind of enterprise where they make a ton of these things to make it worth decent $$$, cause generally no one is getting paid by Spotify. I would think that you would need a large number of "compilations" to have it pay off at all, but they have gamed the system to get easy plays when searching for an artist. Very weird though.

must be something weird having to do with various labels selling off "digital rights" or something?
it does sort of seem like chaos reigns with a lot of that stuff, classical especially.

Yeah I don't even wanna touch classical with a ten foot pole on Spotify

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqFzjBT-GI
will it make me sound like Basho though

lol i just got this press release today

basically just an autoharp for guitar i guess?

sort of expected there to be some gotcha joke at the end, but it's real!

Actually that could be pretty awesome for writing a song higher up on the neck with a guitar that can essentially change tunings on the fly ...between chords...

-like having a third hand. That's assuming you can preprogram it to play any progression you want.

i could see some crazy ass shit, if you had it play regular chord forms but tuned your guitar to some weird tuning then had the machine to hyper-speed inhuman chord changes

This persons idea of "the fun stuff" on guitar is pretty weird.

I hope it comes with the shirt if you pre-order it.

The shirt in the video that is...

You have me curious about seeing Marisa Anderson in DC

Wednesday May 7
Washington DC
Bathtub Republic
3119 11th st nw
w/Marian McLaughlin

Thursday May 8
Baltimore MD
Calvert St House Concert
1222 N. Calvert St

Man she is great. Check out some stuff online though, you'll either see the benefits of checking her out or it won't be your thing, but she is undoubtedly good at doing her thing, and seeing it live made me like even more than I already did. Cool person all around.

gunn
marisa anderson
ryley walker

been a really good show month so far

Yeah man, that is a good run Neal. Looking like a dry spell here for a while, hope it picks up (but we had a great stretch for a while there so can't complain too much).

Well, somehow Steve Gunn mangages to just keep rolling, can't keep up (don't have the Gunn/Gangloff record yet, has a new solo coming out this year too I think). This duo w/ Mike Cooper is sounding really nice, makes me think this is gonna be another winner of a record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mpCOGCWCjXY

A little info about it here: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/steve-gunn-and-mike-cooper-collaborate-for-frkwys-vol-11-cantos-de-lisboa

Two good articles from AdHoc regarding Bussard and Charlie Schmidt:

http://adhoc.fm/post/bussard/

http://adhoc.fm/post/beginners-mind-look-charlie-schmidt-faheys-protege/

I'd be curious to hear Schmidt's album, I didn't even know he really recorded much of his own stuff honestly.

Enjoyed the Bussard one well enough, haven't dug into the Schmidt one. Gonna get to that today.

Daniel Bachman posted a download of a tape that Bussard passed him and a buddy of masters of an "unknown artist". Fun thing to dig into, and if Bussard doesn't know who it is probably knowledge that is gone forever: http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/joe-bussard-tape-unknown-artist-1927.html

Vaguely Bussard-related: did everyone see the Geeshie Wilie/Elvie Thomas piece in the NYT? Dazzling stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html

Had a couple of listens to the new Sir Richard Bishop and it's really lovely. Only £2.50 for a download on Boomkat, too: https://boomkat.com/downloads/975182-sir-richard-bishop-solo-acoustic-vol-8

i got the first schmidt album, xanthe terra, sounds really great, very straight, melodic, has a nice take on grieg's hall of the mountain king or whatever it's called

a bit of chatter about that ny times piece on one of the old time music threads. definitely one of the more amazing music stories I've read in a long time.
think i'm going to be reviewing some of those recent VDSQ LPs -- looking forward to it!
you guys checked this one out? http://ghostcapital.org/peter-finger-bottleneck-guitar-solos-kicking-mule-km-116-1973/
pretty pleasant fingerpicking from germany in the 70s (produced by stefan grossman). not mindblowing but very nice.

also kind of amazing that the dude's name is "peter finger" -- he was born to fingerpick.

Nominative determinism in full effect :)

this pic of bussard from bachman's blog is amazing
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KLJm0NiHKj4/U2pbu38jzJI/AAAAAAAAAZs/O_cWvz8hb2E/s1600/191981_10150199350809638_2307553_o.jpg

Hah yeah man that is an ace photo. Still haven't listened to the tracks from the tape yet.

wonder who schmidt is thinking of when he complains about "underwhelming, half-baked finger pickers"

ha yeah and "audiences applauding wildly for what?" Not really my experience at these shows...

he is talking about mid 00s though, not really most of the guys itt

also neal I just checked my email, will get back to you shortly!

who are the 'mid 2000s' guys though? the only thing i can come up with in terms of instrumental guitar that's completely obnoxious is the harmonic slap n tap kind of drivel, but i don't know if that's a mid 2000s phenomenon specifically. and i wouldn't describe players like that as 'half baked' either, those kinds of dudes are typically 100 percent committed to their tripe

yeah i mean, there's jack rose and glenn jones at that point who were doing the more straightforward stuff. who else was doing it at that point?

Oh I think there were plenty of folks. Harris Newman (on Strange Attractors even), Chasny was put in this category for a while, maybe Matt Valentine would have been one, plenty of others, but my guess is that Schmidt is just kind of slagging stuff out of hand, as he might if he is a real Fahey accolyte.

Now, who would have been getting "audiences applauding wildly" I wouldn't really know, cause as Tyler says that isn't my experience with most shows like this, but one can always hope.

I was gonna say, I'm hoping he wasn't talking about Jack Rose

Dylan Golden Aycock - really cool, meditative stuff

http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/rise-and-shine

apparently he owns the label that reissued the Hired Hand Bruce Langhorne thing

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/16690/desperate-man-blues

Entertaining and long 1999 Washington City Paper feature on Bussard written by Eddie Dean who has penned books on country

Oh that looks cool, thanks Curmudgeon. Interested to read something from before the internet/fingerstyle guitar revival really kicked in!

I love that Hired Hand record! Found it in a bin, was intrigued by the cover. Ended up buying it and I'm really glad.

I really like the Aycock record. Very pretty and just gloomy enough.

The FRKWYS Gunn/Cooper album looks very nice.

I mentioned Dylan Aycock upthread a ways and mentioned his other projects as well, I defiantly recommend anyone to check out those too. Talk West is probably his most known moniker-project.

The next batch at Cabin Floor Esoterica includes a release of Dylan's and some really nice sounding guitar work of Matt Lajoie, the guy behind Herbcraft for any psych dudes in here.

Dylan Golden Aycock 'Sharp As A Razor/Soft As A Prayer', CFE 2014
Matt Lajoie 'Loser (Garcia)', CFE 2014
Rag Lore 'Misr Environs Excerpt', CFE 2014