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

haha 'revelation and transubstantiation on the banks of the Allegheny'

or anything like:
_______ Reel
_______ Rag
_______ Two-Step

haha, currently visiting the in laws in the adirondacks and was thinking about calling a song "revelation on the banks of the great sacandaga"

That's a great name for a river to have a revelation on the banks of! Allegheny was a bit obvious maybe haha

"The Ecstatic Vision of Madge Gill" makes me think I need to make an online "American Primitive Song Title Generator" lol

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 7, 2014 3:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plz do this

a while back in 2010 Steve Gunn and Marc Orleans put up this myspace page for a project called Orleans/Gunn. the two songs posted on there are live recordings from a shows at Zebulon. i'm fairly sure this group only existed for a couple live shows, but back then i remember looking forward to some kind of full recording. i just think this stuff is interesting in the context of all the full band rock playing. cuz these two recordings are damn good. the closest we'll get (so far) to hear Gunn do full on Allmans/Dead jams. there's a couple other dates for shows with the "Gunn-Orleans Quartet" too, was always fishing for more info on this project.

https://myspace.com/orleansgunn/music/songs

i just found this .txt file made by a taper that contains a list of recordings, Orleans Gunn shows are in there a couple times, along with shows of TOM CARTER/MARC ORLEANS/STEVE GUNN/JOHN TRUSCINSKI. seems like the Orleans Gunn duo stuff mixes in with dudes from the D. Charles Speer group. hope to send an email on over to check out this material.

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/tesla69/2nd01upd.txt

i'm assuming that Eleven Twenty Nine project is also an offshoot from experiences of these guys playing together. man, i love collabs. hope this stuff never dries up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhh9a9ZR3w

Neal, that Eleven Twenty-nine record is very weird and cool, definitely not heading down Allmans/Dead territory but something pretty heavy, you should check it out. Collabs are indeed a great thing when the players are in a good place and simpatico.

cooked up a live version of a track on the DFBM release with my roommate, who is really really talented and needs to record more shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3VKeR7VVk

(left channel has warble from a Roland Space Echo, an effect I NEVER get sick of)

Sounding good, and nice to see the 12-string get trotted out. The space echo is indeed a classic.

Bonus here is that you are now available for a "shreds" video treatment.

this is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYhu3z7JKwA

i was sorta bummed by her Tiny Desk performance, felt her guitar was a bit outta tune. (That happened to Glenn Jones' banjo when he played, must be some sort of curse of the NPR office)

That video/interview is great. Shows several sides of her playing, and the audio is solid. Also, note she is a no finger-pick or long nail player (though she has some nails I guess), mostly just fingers. She and Chasny are maybe the two players I have seen that do a lot of fingerpicking that don't have picks/nails.

I wrote a review of Peter Walker and William Tyler at Jack White's Nashville honky-tonk. I do wish Walker took a bit more of a structured approach to playing a set--his penchant for simply playing (noodling) in different keys made for a rather uneven experience, though the songs from his 1970 record were amazing.

Good review Edd, thanks for sharing. Would have liked to have seen that show. I even have a weakness/affinity for noodling in different keys.

Pretty good review of the upcoming Tashi Dorji s/t album coming out soon on Chasny's new label. I find the track included with the review really hypnotic and dynamic, but obviously he is not for everyone. Some straight-up cool acoustic playing at times though, along with some of his more percussive and out moves, but still, some really interesting straight-ish playing too.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19531-tashi-dorji-tashi-dorji/

Also, the Three Lobed day party at Hopscotch line-up is official now:

11:45am - 12:15pm - Daniel Bachman / Nathan Bowles duo (Debut performance! Only show of the festival!)
12:30 - 1:00 - Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC (Only show of the festival!)
1:20 - 2:20 - Little Black Egg big band (Debut performance! Only show of the festival!)
2:45 - 3:15 - Sunburned Hand of the Man (Only show of the festival!)
3:30 - 4:00 - MV & EE (Different set from their Thursday night festival set!)
4:20 - 5:00 - Mary Lattimore / Thurston Moore duo (Debut performance! Only show of the festival!)
- live music between all sets from Mike Gangloff and Nathan Bowles (both of Pelt, Black Twig Pickers and solo fame)

Pretty hot line-up, I imagine Thurston is going to play acoustic and play tunes, but who knows. Also, the Little Black Egg big band is an all-star collaboration which should be of great interest to this thread generally, but I am not sure if it is cool to spoil the surprise or not. If anyone is thinking of going and might get swayed by the info hit me up via email (I'll share it if anyone wants it).

Keep in mind the whole show gets streamed online by WXDU so it may be more fun to get surprised. Pretty damn excited about it.

Hey you guys, I should participate more but I do lurk plenty...

Anyway, I'm REALLY hoping I can get Glenn Jones to play at my wedding a year from now. Any tips as to how I can approach? I don't want any negative "wedding guitarist" connotations to scare him or his bookers away. Especially because the wedding is shooting to be as informal as possible (without alienating attendees too much) so we have absolutely no interest in him doing anything a typical wedding guitarist would do.

Upside here is that he lives only an hour or so away from where it will be located, so booking him a year out. So this could be a pretty convenient gig.

Thanks in advance.

my friends got Shellac to play their wedding, they just emailed Steve Albini

as long as you're clear you want him to play his own stuff (right?) and will pay i can't imagine he wouldn't..but who knows i guess

OK, that's what I'm hoping. Definitely only want him to play his own material.

Thanks!

Hey Evan, that sounds like a cool wedding idea. One thing to keep in mind as well is being very clear about when you want him to play, i.e., while you are walking down the aisle, while folks are eating, just during the reception, etc. etc. I imagine you are looking for "just letting Glenn do his thing during the reception" but you are most likely to get what you want if you are up front about that in the initial contact/request.

cul de sac used to have a notice on their website about being available to play weddings &c. so I imagine glenn would be at least somewhat amenable

he could probably play a blinding set of covers too tho, I bet he's got a broad&deep repertoire

basically you will come off as a nice, polite fan and in 2014 a gig is a gig i would imagine

UMS & Ogmor absolutely correct there on all counts I imagine.

Thanks all! Good advice.

I definitely would be upfront with my vision if he gets back to my initial request (through Front Porch Productions).

But this is all makes me very optimistic for sure!

basically you will come off as a nice, polite fan and in 2014 a gig is a gig i would imagine

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 1:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as someone who has played a wedding and also had a guitar player friend from the ILX Brigade of MVPs play my own wedding, yup. should be easy if he's not already on tour or something. Also, I've met Glenn and he's a super cool dude.

ps congrats!

Thanks very much!

Yeah I met Glenn as well and he may be the nicest musician I've ever talked to.

so excited to see him, never thought i'd see the day

Well the booker said he is interested! He's got the date down in his calendar and asked to have his wife join him.

I'm so thrilled! They're asking what budget I have in mind as they normally do not book weddings. Now I have to figure that out...

Great news Evan! Glad it looks like it will work out. If I had Glenn play at my wedding (I am already married so hypothetical here) I would surely tear up during a couple of those "My Garden State" songs.

nice! congrats on getting married (and possibly having glenn provide the music). yeah i can imagine playing a wedding an hour away might even be preferable to some of these guys than playing at midnight in a cruddy rock club.

oh god yes

think we talked about this somewhere, but this basho LP is being re-ished by grasstop/gnome life
Robbie Basho's 'Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12' reissued for the first time on 10/1/14

Grass-Tops Recording (CD) and Gnome Life Records (LP)

For the first time since its original release, Grass-Tops Recording and Gnome Life Records bring you the reissue of Robbie Basho's 'Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12' album (circa Windham Hill, 1979).

This release was the followup to Robbie's first Windham Hill record entitled 'Visions of the Country' — also reissued by Grass-Tops and Gnome Life last year (1978/2013)

'Art' brings us a different side of Basho than featured on his previous albums; a more classical approach to the steel stringed guitar, and one of certainly few attempts throughout history to adapt classical pieces from nylon string to steel string. The result: a very unique album of material which Basho himself described as "near-classical". Unlike his first Windham Hill release, which heavily featured his voice, 'Art' focuses primarily on showcasing the many possibilities of the concert steel string guitar as a solo instrument. The one track where he does sing, however, is a shining moment from his long musical career ("Pasha II" - track 3).

This reissue was remastered by Joe Churchich and Kyle Fosburgh from the original master tapes, with careful attention paid to preservation and enhancement of the original analog qualities and tones of the recording.

As a preview to the CD reissue, Grass-Tops Recording has exclusively made available via digital download, four crystal clear and brilliantly performed live Basho recordings from the Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago, IL (6/11/82). All four performances featured on this release appear in various renditions on the studio album reissue.

more basho stuff - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robbie-basho-tribute-concert-film-download

ha i found that basho LP for $1.99 a few months back, i think i got lucky there

yeah no idea if it's super-rare -- those windham hill records probably had good distro at the time.

they sure did, every new age bookstore in the US stocked that stuff

and believe me, there were a LOT of those in 1980

yeah! still $1.99 is probably a good deal anyway.
finally getting around to the tashi dorji record (though I'd heard some of it before) -- totally great!

windham hill pressed such nice vinyl....and those delectable plastic sleeves that never crease or wrinkle....

the records are almost always in perfect shape because their previous owners were very sedate

yeah dudes probably cleaned them on a VPI machine after every listen

i've been listening to that tashi dorki record too and yeah it's excellent stuff, i hear flashes of akiyama and bits of basho-junghans' more out-there side but so much of it sounds like he's created his own little world out of nowhere

um, dorji*. lol. sorry m8

Can't wait for my copy of that Dorji record to arrive! I did the pre-order but I guess the promos are making it out first. Wish I could make one of those Bishop/Dorji shows.

tashi dorki

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yeah was thinking that some of the more percussive moments make me think of junghans' stuff in that vein, but it really does seem to be its own thing. definitely "out," but kind of absorbing (and actually quite melodic in its own skewed way).