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

Richard Thompson's Acoustic Classics comes out July 22: solo? vocals as well? Press release doesn't say; not seeing it on his own site yet. Kinda wish he'd picked some rarities, but maybe he'll do that too. He really can be a captivating acoustic solo picker; I got strung out on following him around the world (from picnic table to opera house to beach) on YouTube in 2011. Setlist:

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Walking On A Wire
Wall Of Death
Down Where The Drunkards Roll
One Door Opens
Persuasion
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
I Misunderstood
From Galway To Graceland
Valerie
Shoot Out The Lights
Beeswing
When The Spell Is Broken
Dimming Of The Day

He's currently on tour with the trio.

Oh yeah, it does say that these are all newly recorded versions.

Thanks for weighing in Neal, I figured McGuire is just not for me generally, though there is less of a barrier when he doesn't get to use whatever distortion he uses in his electric stuff, which really doesn't work for me.

http://grasstopsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/art-of-the-acoustic-steel-string-preview
this whole recording is up now for the low low price of $4. sounds wonderful.

ooh thanks for the heads up, will buy this tonight

Thanks Tyler, gonna check that out!

oh hey I went home for lunch so I am buying it now!

really is great -- i've been loving these basho live recordings that have popped up in recent years.

RT def sings the shit out of his xpost Acoustic Classics. it is at least virtually solo: sounds like there might (surely must) be a bit of overdubbing on a few tracks; then again, he sounds like two or three guys in some of those xpost picnic table phone videos (where he might have a couple of demi-Thompsons just off-lens, but he sounded the same playing "Woodstock" alone onstage at TNT's Joni tribute).

The choice and sequence of songs implies an overall story-line, I think; anyway, it's cohesive pulp fiction testimony. Music of the people, yall.

thompson is definitely in his own league. wonder if he's ever been aware of the american primitive scene? i'd almost be more into instrumental things from him these days. grizzly man soundtrack is probably the album of his i've listened to the most from the 21st century.

just copped that basho jawn!

thanks tyler!

bandcamp is so awesome

i would imagine richard thompson knows everything
he did record the greatest hits of the millennium didn't he?

haha, yeah i suppose so. i just have no real idea what his listening habits are -- maybe I imagine he listens to old jazz more than anything else...

man the recording quality on this basho is great! studio quality

on dangerous ground here...don't want to open the pandora's harp box
but
this is really beautiful and i thought ppl on this thread might enjoy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAW8tlV3MkU#t=455

sounds pretty effing good tbh. saw that thrill jockey is putting out a mary lattimore LP in the near future. never got her last one, but the couple of songs I heard were great.

Interesting Richard Thompson interview/performance on Sound Opinions this past weekend.

Apparently he listens almost entirely to classical music these days.

fantastic black twig pickers set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47sIwMWK5Wo&feature=youtu.be

really love the full-band version of one of bowles' solo banjo pieces.

nice! that channel has a bunch of relevant to this thread videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/orthophonix/videos

Orthophonix is Jesse Sheppard, a Philadelphian taper and filmer, he's close to the gang we all dig. He directed 'The Things That We Used To Do' featuring Jack Rose and Glenn Jones; goes to lots and lots of shows and puts it all up on youtube, his channel is a gold mine.

He had just posted a string of videos, including that BTP show above. Also just put up was a Cian show, a Solar Motel one, and a nice song of Ignatz, which Jesse likened to an early Gunn vox sound. It's good.

This is also great too, Jerry Hionis was filmed by a Philly paper regarding guitar playing and this is the clip, good quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlRCTs7Vd4

Correct video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnoL2UG77s0

chris from soft abuse gave me an old CD he put out about 10 years ago, Langtry - Upon the Road Thereto

Langtry is Patrick McKinney the guitarist for Iron & Wine....this album is a American Primitive type solo acoustic record...really good stuff! well worth checking out, i found this full band clip on Youtube but nothing solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13kV8crybU

i've got that one! i should dig it out again... think i got it right around the time i was digging deep into fahey stuff and it got tossed by the wayside a little bit.

yeah it's really nice! kinda funny feel like it would fit in better now then when it came out in some ways

totally. i remember thinking, "huh, people still make records like this?"

That Langtry song sounds a bit like Lungfish with strings and no Higgs.

omg grandavis, higgs singing over a real droney american primitive thing would be such a good idea

Well, he does it himself sometimes. New solo stuff is a little weirder than that (his banjo playing is a little wilder but very cool), but live he sang and told stories over it and it was pretty great. The Pupils record had some moments like that, but it was still all electric guitar I think, just more minimal than the Lungfish records for the most part.

oh cool, yeah i can't keep track of all the stuff he does

just more minimal than the Lungfish records for the most part.

haha i know what you mean but this is also hilarious in that it's high time he shed the proggy excesses of lungfish

Yeah, I almost changed that but really the Pupils record is more minimal than even Lungfish. Perhaps "stripped down" would have been more accurate.

Definitely go see Higgs solo if you get a chance. I am not sure he does the same thing every time he plays these days, but when I have seen him it has been solo banjo with vocals interspersed. He also discussed the last Planet of the Apes movie in the middle of the set (whilst continuing to play banjo) and it was hilarious.

dateline: today

spotify tells me glenn jones is playing in minneapolis on august 29th at a club

i excitedly write the booking email on their website about possibly opening

in the meantime i google more

and it's this glenn jones fml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FVh2GUmrg

lol did you get the gig? that would be so awkward.
"We've Only Just Begun (To Fingerpick)"

I think you can accurately describe yr style as "grown folks music", you should fit just fine

"Guitarist Matt Helgeson is currently touring in support of his album Dress Code Enforced featuring the singles "Bottle Service" and "Strictly For the Grown & Sexy""

It's that or fake Mumford hobo

i'll do a combo, tom waits old man hat & 5 button teal steve harvey jacket

*turns to Drake* "First million ain't hard at all"

that hiosis clip is great

new song i did

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/helios

Hey UMS, like this one a lot. Reminds me of Chasny's early acoustic stuff a bit, some of the phrasing and pauses/motion to the tune. So yeah, cool stuff, like it more than that Hionis track to be honest with you.

Very cool!

thanks! GD to be compared w/chasney in any way is very cool :)

Just got a vg(?) copy of death chants vol 2 by fahey for $40 was I a sucker?

Is it the skeleton/lady woodcut cover, the Tom Weller psych lettering, or maybe the plain black type? I'd say you could get the woodcut style covers at pretty good prices every now and then on eBay: usually see good copies going for $15 to $25. The Tom Weller illustrated ones going for a bit more bc (I guess?) they were originally distributed overseas. $40 ain't bad, but you could've defiantly gotten one at a solid $20.

Back in 07/08 I think $40 wasn't uncommon. But things kind of dropped off recently, though I haven't trawled eBay in a while so things might have picked up again bc of the book release/etc.

It's the black plain type one. They seem to go for around $80 these days? Though those clearly are in better shape than mine.

Well... despite the fact that the store owner was able to sample it without any defects, I can't get it to play without the needle sliding around the record. The warp seemed slight enough.

I guess I'll try to return it. Waste of time!

Shame cause it's the 1965 original.

Oh damn! The og pressing. I'd always wanted a copy of that, especially Death Chants. That's a huge shame you can't get a proper play out of it though, damn! I'd be too bummed as well.