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

Parr is a two finger player right? Some of that material on Hollandale is surprising. really good

Parr is one of the few old timey people out there who can really do it and make it feel vital

yeah it doesn't feel like a costume or tacky or anything, just feels like a guy super into that music. i'm not sure if he's a two finger player, some of the patterns sound like three fingered ones, though, that'd be super impressive

Lang admires Parr and says his parents were big labor movement people and unionists in Austin MN so a lot of his folk bent comes from that

Can't remember if he plays w 2 fingers
Lang is two fingers

so i saw Parr earlier this week for the first time. just tremendous. i didn't notice 2 vs 3 fingers...i'm not that observant, ha.

my little town gets a lot of young, 4/5/6-piece blues/grass/hoot/hooler/jugband/punk shtick bands through here (think early Avetts), dozens since the beginning of the year alone, and none of 'em can do it like Parr does it on his own.

wish he'd had Hollandale on vinyl, but i picked up Barnswallow instead

It is a really fine line. My town has been full of these "revivalist" hoot-n-holler bands for years, and it is generally not my thing at all, and yet I can go see/listen to The Black Twig Pickers all day. I imagine that the context of who the B. Twig Pickers are is part of it, but there is an inherent feel and approach to their stuff that somehow keeps it in my wheelhouse in ways most of these bands don't.

Gonna go ahead and post my latest Dais Queue live set here (from this past Wednesday). It's all solo guitar of one kind or another, but a lot of minimal moves and extended technique stuff, so keep that in mind if tuning in. Happy with the recording though.

http://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/dais-queue-live-07-24-2014

Happened to be at the end one of the crappiest days I have had in quite some time on the back end of a crappy month, so I was worried that the show would devolve into an angsty mess, but instead I think I went to a better place despite it all. Don't know what I would do if I couldn't play guitar through an amp at volume in a room every now and again.

this is great so far...reminds me a bit of steve reich

Cool, thanks! Definitely milking my love for that stuff, and the overtones available in open tunings.

well this is a collaboration i didn't expect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2w6ZNnHiKU

(marisa anderson on guitar ^^)

was reminded about UMS's post about the other Glenn Jones coming to MPLS when I came across this little-known Glenn Jones release on Spotify:

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

lol you should also post that here:

WRONG DUDE

How's "Dusty Lady"?

Haha, he's very obviously Australian, if that describes the music any. (probably not)

Grass-Tops is reissuing that Dennis Taylor LP!

haha, Dennis Taylor mania!
I actually was able to track down a cheap vinyl copy of that album (on amazon of all places). not in great shape, but plays fine. Really nice LP! kinda makes me think of the george cromarty stuff in its peaceful, elegant vibe.

new Fahey Spotify weirdness, a release called "New York Central". Sounds like a bootleg from the Salem era, but I don't know.

yeah i notice a bunch of shitty comps dropped really hate that about spotify

okay, this is really weird. there's even some studio banter for tracks off of the "Railroad" release (you can hear the engineer and several false starts on 'Frisco Leaving Birmingham")

spotify:album:7i2FNUeKNloLXHqp8AOivf

credited to "Acewonder LTD" and "Cugate music"

what even is this shit

lol one of the tracks is called "Dvorsack"

Whoa. I have not logged into Spotify in a long time, might have to go back for this.

it's pretty interesting. sounds like studio outtakes from the "Railroad" sessions.

Hey all, just throwing out that the Three Lobed day party at Hopscotch is slated for Friday, Sept. 5. Lineup apparently doesn't get announced until Aug. 13 at the main festival's request, but I have heard some rumors etc. and it looks like it is (potentially) going to have some heavy hitters and cool collaborations. I am close to %100 sure that I am going, so if anyone is inclined or already headed there let me know, would be happy to meet up.

Just in case this helps the cause, it should be mentioned that it is a free show, all you have to do is get there!

dammit I'm on the wrong coast

Hah sorry sleeve. Time to visit the family again?

they were in Duck NC last week!

sadly I will probably not visit until next summer

Ah well.

we need a ilx brigade private jet to fly you guys to MN for the old familiar chime and us all to NC for the 3 lobed fest

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/lenas-end

new song i did....i called it "lena's end" because the coda is just a real simple melody....the queen of the flat top guitar record by lena hughes has been really important to me in a lot of ways...

sometimes i listen to ppl like john renbourne or kottke or newer folks like bachman and tyler etc and they are so damn talented and skilled i get bummed out about my own playing, but then i try to remember lena hughes because those recordings are so great to me, and she's so comfortable with her own skill, and it's just really simple great melodies played beautifully, and at a fidelity level that's not even as good as a USB mic and a laptop...i dunno i find it inspirational to remember that you sometimes just need to let the song be the song and not worry about what you can't do

UMS, that song is really good. Everything is articulated really well, you can hear all the parts/notes clearly, and I especially like the section at the end where you slow it down (if that is the "real simple melody" then it is a keeper, happy to take more of these kinds of songs). Songwriting is definitely a "feel" thing as much as a skill thing, so yeah man keep it up. Your playing is plenty good already anyways.

Hah man I have listened to your tune like 5 times in a row, it is catchy as hell. Sorry to skew the stats, but I am going to listen to it a few more times.

skew away - thanks i'm happy you're enjoying it

That Lena Hughes record is really nice man. I got it in a bundle when Tompkins Square had a sale and I listen to it all the time. Good thing to emulate/keep in mind in my opinion.

yeah dude, that sounds lovely.
been kind of futzing around w/ alt tunings and so forth, probably need some actual lessons in this stuff.

Tyler, I would think open tunings could be very cool w/ your bamd, as you are a classic trio and having sympathetic strings droning behind you when you solo can add a lot of good texture etc. to the sound of the band. Of course I am a sucker for this stuff so take that with a grain of salt, but man I love that sound in a band for sure.

Uh, "band".

Ah man the Forces At Work "Tomorrow Never Knows" came up after UMS's tune on soundcloud. Good afternoon listening!

That particular song is in C9 (cgcgcd) which I like lately... It's got an odd suspended quality to it and not quite as distinctive as open C which is great but definitely always sounds like open C

xp haha, that is a good one. we've never been able to play it that well since.
but yeah i like the open string drone, even in more straightforward rock situations. we have one song using the open tuning (i kinda forget which one, i think it was the one chasny uses?) and will probably have some more. i'm sort of figuring out how to write songs in it w/o having them all sound the same.

what's forces at work soundcloud? when i search forces at work on soundcloud i get an iggy azealia song

it was part of that ILX beatles comp from a little while back - https://soundcloud.com/ilx-beatles-comp/forces-at-work-tomorrow-never
if you really need to go deep, http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/92744477097/forcesatwork-tasty-jams-vol-1-this-cd-r-was

Oh, speaking of alt tunings, some of us over on the Joni Mitchell thread were marveling at her playing in this '66 or '87 show: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1884 She re-tunes pretty often, though always quickly. One poster mentioned a book where she's playing at Mama Cass's house, and Clapton's staring at her fingers, like wtf (like everybody else). But (in the show tracks) it's never showboating, just part of the overall effect.

'66 or *'67* show, I meant.

ums yr playing has come on a lot & I agree with you on the strength of simple, uncluttered playing. something about the kind of comfortably worn-in feel of that piece, mb accentuated by being lofi but extant regardless, reminds me of some of the miighty flashlight/mike fellows stuff which I feel like I've mentioned already on this thread but seemingly not. also that coda is indeed wicked

thx that's very kind. i will check out mighty flashlight/fellows cheers :)

don't forget the double ii! a v chill instance of rock dude going acoustic, his stuff was compositionally v riff/loop based but it's all about the ~vibe~

did you hear the recent chris brokaw record on VDSQ? might be up yr alley

there was a nice live vid of him that I liked. I am outside the demographic of boutique stuff like vdsq but he's done some other stuff which is more readily accessible so I'll have a rummage