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

This is Forsyth's message via Fbook from about 20 minutes ago:

"Iowa City tonight w Jason Lescalleet. Chicago again tomorrow w Bitchin Bajas and Axis: Sova at HQ. Message me if you need the address."

Bajas' new one is so good. Doesn't fit in with this thread per se, but whatever!

So as long as we're riffing on Solar Motel, what's a good 2014 album along those lines?

the new Solar Motel Band album coming out in October!

I'm kidding, kinda. I'd suggest the William Tyler EP Lost Colony, super killer krautrock Americana stuff. Maybe you've heard it, I dunno.

Here's my recording! Tried to find a place to set up my phone where there wouldn't be much talking, to no avail. Sort of a Live At Max's Kansas City vibe, or something. I think the track Banjo Burner came off the best (that'll be on the future DFBM release, although it'll sound pretty different there- it was a fun challenge to try to translate it to a live setting). All in all, of course there are things I'd wish had happened differently, but I feel overall pretty good about it-

http://stevepalmer.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-7th-st-entry

also I don't think Danny Paul Grody gets enough love in this thread. this song gives me the willies in the best way possible:

http://dannypaulgrody.bandcamp.com/track/time-spirals

i love DPG!!

he does the best job of treading that line between new age type stuff and american primitive, really dreamy and spacey without ever seeming like yoga music

At times DPG gets so lush tonally that it goes from new-agey to edgy/discomforting just from the layers of beautiful stuff happening. Neat trick to pull, and he does it without being too gratuitous pretty much across the board.

yeahhhh his record from last year has been in regular rotation ...
saw ryley walker last night in denver! he was great, though the show was woefully underattended (as per usual). pretty amazing guitarist -- he's definitely absorbed the jansch/renbourn thing fully. says he already has a new LP recorded...

also, he was selling/giving away a very limited run LP of him playing w/ chris brokaw! haven't given it a listen yet...

"Woefully underattended" is part of the genre tag in most cities.

Nice set Global! I like that you covered a pretty diverse set of moves, good flow to the set too. "Banjo Burner" was cool. Building blocks of the song and the lead playing actually reminded me of Forsyth himself a little bit, but I really like how the song ended in a washout of dissonance/noisier playing. Really liked the intro to "Twenty Six Spires" as well. Guess a theme is forming here, but yeah I like the juxtaposition of the pretty, more straightforward stuff with the more "out" stuff.

this thread prompted me to restring my lap steel last night. think I may actually stump up for some lessons this time around since I don't actually know what I am doing

Global T your stuff is great!! Any track you want some drums on? I'd be happy to give it a try just for fun/educational purposes!!

jeez did we miss this coming out???

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19442-steve-gunn-mike-cooper-cantos-de-lisboa/

Nah, I think that Cooper/Gunn collab is mentioned above, but I get confused these days as the release get bounced around so many places these days. What I have heard from it is really good!

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/06/27/steve-gunn-mike-cooper-cantos-de-lisboa/ ;)

it is hard to keep track of gunn though!

Dow, in my opinion something that hits some similar sweet spots as the Forsyh & Solar Motel Band sound, or at least orbits around parts of it, is the new Eleven Twenty-Nine record on Drawing Room Records. It is Tom Carter and Marc Orleans on electric guitars with a drummer, Michael Evans. It is really great, though a lot freer and "out" overall (think it is all improvised), but damn if there isn't some hot playing on it.

Song here is really good, but I like another I heard on the radion named "Enochian Key Party" even better: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-drawingroom/01-dirtbag-lazarus

Some really wild guitar tones on it for sure.

Cosign on that William Tyler EP too, as stated hope he puts more out in that vein.

just discovered Ryley Walker's album from a few months ago ... stunning stuff, I think

he said his new one is way better (i really like his first). recorded with chicago jazz guys i guess, more of a band-y vibe. in fact he said there are a lot of vibes on it.

if anyone here is in LA, you could easily score free tix here - http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/07/15/aquarium-drunkard-presents-ryley-walker-the-echo-july-17th/

ooh, which chicago jazz guys?

i can't remember! he said some names and i'm not sure whether he said they were actually in tortoise or if they were "tortoise-y guys"...
cooper from cave is still producing though, which is cool -- the first album had a great overall sound.

that's cool
he is everywhere!

is there a Cave thread because I need a new Cave record

the band CAVE

BOOM! How lazy am I? (Thanks LL.)

there's a lot of tortoisey guys in chicago

That Chicago scene does seem ridiculously incestuous but, if this doesn't stupidly offensive, in a <i>good</i> way.
Ryler Walker with Chad Taylor and Rob Mazurek does sound like a winner.

Yeah, that Sam Prekop solo album with those dudes and O'Rourke producing/playing, plus other Chicago folks, is a really gorgeous album still based around the guitars of Prekop/Archer Prewitt. I imagine that a Ryley Walker album would sound pretty great with a similar treatment/cast of players.

Aye, totally. That album is quietly glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVKdRK0RTY

thx for the reminder, i have really enjoyed that LP in the past.
speaking of o'rourke, it still kind of irks me that he hasn't made at least two or three albums along the lines of Bad Timing.

halfway to a threeway by o'rourke was great

I've got the first brokeback LP, which is a really stellar album kind of in this vein.

i mean, most of the stuff i've heard from o'rourke is great (or at least interesting). just funny that he completely left behind the bad timing vibe for the most part (at least as far as I know, maybe there's something like that I haven't heard).

speaking of o'rourke, it still kind of irks me that he hasn't made at least two or three albums along the lines of Bad Timing

Very much agree with that. I guess Halfway to Threeway is stylistically the closest, though it's probably closer to Eureka.

now i've been sent off on one of my periodic "what is jim o'rourke doing now" quests. (i know he's been doing that archival stuff on bandcamp)
this is great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HeoEJyvnM

he hasn't forgotten about bad timing anyway -- he starts playing something from it around the 7-minute mark

I interviewed Charlie Parr last week and listened to "Hollandale" quite a bit this week and it made me wonder if perhaps folks on this thread might've missed it because Charlie is so strongly associated with old-time folk/blues stuff.

"Hollandale" is excellent, imo. Much more in line with this thread's wheelhouse. Long, rambling instrumentals, still bluesy in places, but more experimental, more progressive, more airy than much of the stuff he's done before. Much more based around drone.

Charlie told me he's a *huge* fan of Fahey/Basho/Lang, and Gunn/Nugent, and "weirder guys" like Orcutt/Metzger. He says that's pretty much what he listens to on his own time, and what he tends to play when he's not practicing, writing or performing his own music.

Anyway, he told Alan Sparhawk he wanted to record some of his own instrumental stuff someday and Sparhawk sort-of-secretly (not really but y'know) got him to come over and play and just do it.

So "Hollandale" is the result of that, and I think it's beautiful stuff, so if your eyes have passed over Parr recently because of the rest of his catalog (not that it's not great, just different), maybe give it a shot.

i'm a big fan of charlie, obv here in MN he plays quite regular, got to see him open for spider john koerner which was pretty amazing on both counts, obv spider john is one of the last true old legends...i'm sure he and metzger know each other from around

but yeah i like his old timey stuff a ton and hollandale was a very cool break from it as well, but by all accounts a first class dude

Parr is pretty cool, but I haven't heard "Hollandale", will try to check it out. That O'Rourke clip above is good, nice to see him cutting loose a bit, but not what I was expecting at all. Still wearing the sweater though, which is exactly what you would expect.

Listening to Hollandale now and is it indeed very good, esp the driftier and dreamier stuff like the title track and the first of the two 'Paul Bunyan' songs. I am definitely one of the folks alpine describes above who has always avoided Parr because of the old-timey elements, but this album provides a nice entry point. Press materials boast that it is "like nothing you've heard," and I think that's perhaps a bit hyperbolic - more "like nothing you've heard Charlie Parr do." But that's OK. Good stuff.

Yeah, I'm into this. It'd be cool to see him play a show centered on this sort of style, but I doubt he'd do that

a friend alerted me to this dude -
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000041750856-wctt4a-t500x500.jpg?e76cf77
sounds so nice -- a couple tracks on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dbazemon/bicycle-town
friend says:
"Attention fellow Guitar Soli enthusiasts (assuming that includes most of my friends here), a little while back I found an lp of solo acoustic guitar music by Lincoln, NE’s Dennis Taylor that seems to be languishing in unfair obscurity (very little information on google, no reviews that I could find, etc. ). I wrote him to see if he had any additional copies as I know some of you would be into it, but unfortunately he does not (it was pressed in an edition of 300 copies, which he sold out of in the late 80s). It is an exceedingly lovely album, obviously coming from a post-Fahey angle at times, but the all-original compositions are all really strong & melodic (and according to the liner notes inspired by Baha’I writings) and the playing is gorgeously fleet and assured. Felt the same sense of excitement I felt when hearing Richard Crandell’s lp for the first time. Dennis has put a few of the tracks on Soundcloud, you should check them out…"

love it. he looks pretty young on that cover, would be curious to hear more about his story. found this video, I presume it's him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xymO_U7AW0

Considering the still on that youtube is exactly the same pose as the album cover... honestly amazing how exact it is. All the angles are the same. Yeah it's a safe bet.

good stuff here : http://www.npr.org/event/music/331991395/marisa-anderson-tiny-desk-concert

Dennis' soundcloud page up there is full of great stuff. I dunno why but there's quite a few solo guitar players that are also bass guys. I grew up playing bass too. Either way I'm surprised how his album has never shown up anywhere. I'm at work and not sure if the whole album was put up anywhere yet?

Recent playing is still real good, lots of bashoy hammer-ons/offs too, like it.

yeah Evan wow! i didn't notice how he's in the exact same pose. crazy

I was a bassist my whole life until whenever I started this thread, never did more than mess around w a six string. I guess maybe I caught on decent because I was used to playing w thumb and fingers