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

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.

$40 would've be a really nice price if it had worked out. :(

Yeah! I mean, maybe I have to adjust the weight on my tonearm or something but I'm not sure if that'll be enough to get it to work. Worth a shot I guess.

OK so I re-calibrated the tonearm and the issues I had on side 2 are fixed but track 2 on side 1 is still pretty unlistenable with all of the skips... Hmmm...

James Blackshaw - Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat is available for full stream over at Stereogum now.
http://www.stereogum.com/1688377/stream-james-blackshaw-fantomas-stereogum-premiere/video/
It's out on 7/7/14.

"Something we’ll surely get used to as the decade continues is the fact that we’re going to start hitting the 100-year anniversaries of some very important films. This year marked the triple-digit birthday of the Fantômas series. The serialized films followed the anti-hero thief Fantômas who would often stage sadistically elaborate ways of murdering his enemies (how can you not root for a guy who kills with the “giant room filling with sand” method?). It’s an extremely influential series, and to celebrate the occasion, several artists were commissioned to compose new film scores to be performed live with a screening of the series (which taken all together makes a nearly six-hour film). One of those artists was the virtuoso guitarist James Blackshaw, who worked with the fifth and final film in the series, Le Faux Magistrat. You can stream the entire score below and watch a clip of Blackshaw performing it live at the anniversary screening in France last Halloween."

it's good - very far away from anything "american primitive" though. unless david shire's soundtrack to "the conversation" is considered american primitive.

Are there any Coloradan/Denverites on here? I'm going to be there in the early part of August and wondered if there were any particular gigs* coming up, or any record shops/good bars worth a look? It's a family trip, so not sure how much chance I'll get to have a proper look around, but want to be fully armed...

*I checked some listings, but could only find stuff with the larger venues. I'm praying for a secret Glenn Jones/Pelt gig in a loft somewhere.

"I'm praying for a secret Glenn Jones/Pelt gig in a loft somewhere"

Hah me too, would be just about the perfect show for me these days.

cool excited to check out blackshaw

tyler to thread! xxp

Bumping this so Tyler sees that Colorado/Denver request up above.

yesss, i live here in colorado. record stores ... twist and shout is sorta the big one, maybe amoeba-lite. there's wax trax, too, which is OK, though maybe past its prime. best one is a little bit out of the way, but might be worth it: www.blackandread.net
as for shows, yeah, i'm probably on record in this thread complaining that we don't get a lot of these guys out here for whatever reason. don't think UMS, global tetrahedron or grandavis have played here once! lame.

Holding out for that Tyler-curated Aquarium Drunkard/Revolt of the ILX Brigade showcase.

seems like a no-brainer -- i wish i knew how to do stuff like that!

Worth figuring it out so you can get all the actual touring folks to come to you.

yes agree
get someone in the mayor's office to lend a hand -- it's good for tourism! just ask knoxville.

in other news, my drumming has improved a lot! just here to remind y'all in case you're feeling beat-starved.

i even work for the tourism bureau.
send me a beat LL! i could do something with it probably. tywilc AT gmail

Man Colorado is so beautiful, I would think folks would be into a festival kinda thing there, it is just a question of where else they would play along the way. I mean, a bunch of folks are hitting up this festival in Asheville, and it is just being put on by a record store. I have no idea how things like this get organized, but this is a good line-up to model a small-ish festival after:

http://harvest-records.com/transfigurations/

i'm on it!