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

i am liking this track by global

also relevant to thread, i'm seeing michael chapman in a few weeks, steve gunn in a few days

and richard bishop in a few days too

nice!
kinda sad bishop dropped from old familiar chime fest but oh well

Wow, Chapman/Gunn/Bishop (with Tashi Dorji I imagine) all within a few weeks pretty awesome! Just found out that Steve Gunn is coming to Charlottesville with Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler. Psyched for sure, only time I saw Gunn the sound was pretty bad and I couldn't really enjoy it too well.

any of you guys like RM Hubbert? scottish nylon-string player, kind of a parallel to some of the stuff ITT in that he's not fahey/takoma/blues/drone influenced really but he's an intrepid open-tuning explorer & v much coming from a rock/punk/underground background (toured w/ mogwai &c.) I don't love it, and it's mb a bit harmonically samey, but it's p distinctive, v melodic, traces of flamenco technique in his playing, endearingly rough round the edges

man how come none of these guys come up to VT/NH, you'd think ppl here would be nuts for it

You would think that maybe the Matt Valentine & EE connection would bring some folks, plus the hotbed around Western Mass., but maybe just too far North. I lived in Maine for a while and no one came up to Portland while I lived there, ended up being one of the reasons I moved (though there were many, Portland still rules).

Man McPhee is a weird one for me. He loses me quite a bit, it seems to be just pretty a lot of the time, but then there are parts like the last 5 minutes or so of this tune that I love. Pretty cool minimal slide/feedback that hits with a little more oomph (for me).

https://soundcloud.com/deanmcphee/cloud-forest

He is definitely a good player, and that new one posted above is pretty cool. I think the more minimal he goes the more I like him.

Nice! First track from the upcoming Nathan Bowles record has been pushed out to NPR. Tom Carter on acoustic and electric!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/08/27/343190918/vikings-choice-nathan-bowles-chuckatuck

like it!

"For the coda, Carter switches to the electric guitar for a regal solo that belongs more to the wandering English countryside (think Richard Thompson, then put some burn on it) than to the tidewater." ...uh richard thompson puts plenty of burn on it thanks

Hah yeah, that write-up was a little overcooked. Minus the little intro bit the banjo sounds pretty banjo-y (and not sitar-y) to me, but the Thompson +burn comment was especially unnecessary (I mean, I love Tom Carter's playing but his solo here is not overtly Thomspon-esque or even particularly virtuosic, just a nice enough outro solo). The best part of that whole write-up is the photo of Bowles, which is just great.

yeah song is great

ogomor - i'm digging RM Hubbert - sometimes the songs w/singing remind me of a folky Arab Strap

love the bowles track, very nice.

enjoying this one today which a friend passed along. mid 80s takoma-y duo. think if you liked that elkington/salsburg record from a few years back you'd like this.
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/a/bce2765b0cd63a2b49fa597596535549/4703134.jpg
some of it errs a little bit on the too pretty side of things, but there is plenty of great stuff happening. available on CD baby! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rcrandell2

Tyler- at the beginning of the thread you said "...or it sounds like run-of-the-mill indie movie soundtrack fodder" to describe something.

I've been in love with the Paris, Texas soundtrack ever since I saw the movie recently. What's everyone's thoughts? Does it have that same floats-out-the-window/merely-exists-as-background problem? Where is the line drawn between good/bad in this category? Other favorite is Bruce Langhorne's Hired Hand.

I really like Ry Cooder.

ha, i don't remember what i was referring to up there ... but it definitely wasn't paris texas or the hired hand! those are both totally classic imo.
maybe y'all have heard this, but this cooder collab is excellent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez-oEsg1uw0

Just listened to that on my carpool in this morning!

it's great! cooder could obviously have explored a more takoma-y career if he wanted to be even more obscure than he already is.

for sure

paris texas is a first rate soundtrack & suffers from usual soundtrack problems listening to it out of context, like a pared-down background version of blind willie johnson

track 3 of 'a meeting by the river', album linked above by tyler, is too good.

oh whoops I mised that we were talking about that record, it is totally fantastic. there's an old Forced Exposure writeup that notes the AAD recording.

everything on the Water Lily label rules

Went to my local record store to hang a flier for me & global's show on the 11th & snagged a sealed copy of all is falling by hand blackshaw on clearance for $13

finally decided to make my way through Sir Richard Bishop's discography, out of order, respectively.. at least everything he has put up at deliradio.com. only two albums in and fuck I'm excited. it's been too long since i've checked out new music to be honest, life has gotten in the way where i've just been running old shit into the ground over and over. i love Improvika as it's all unaccompanied steel string playing. accessible and probably enjoyable to everyone here; so if you haven't yet, you should. but who am i kidding though, i'm probably the only one who has been lazy towards his output.

just found this surfin around on soundcloud:

https://nathangolub.bandcamp.com/album/ellerbee-river-blues

https://soundcloud.com/jakubsimansky/bloodbackovo-blues

doesn't do much to dissuade me from the thought that kaki king is kinda gimmicky....buuuut
i kinda wanna see this

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/469596960/kaki-king-the-neck-is-a-bridge-to-the-body

Just wanted to say cheers for the Denver recommendations, Tyler - found me some lovely records and had the time of my life. My wallet (and liver) are in terminal decline.

Currently listening to the stream of Steve Palmer's Unblinking Sun, which is great - pretty much as described: Takoma meets Neu! http://first-listen.com/steve-palmer/
Is Dying for Bad Music run by someone on here, or am I going daft?

Got my hands on the new Steve Gunn and Nathan Bowles records, both of which are sounding majestic. Listened to the Gunn more and he seems to be totally inhabiting the wandering ghost of JJ Cale - a Cale that wandered off into the wilderness in 1976 or so. Lovely, lovely stuff and might be the best thing he's done.

no DFBM isn't someone on ilm but steve is :)

No Marcus, of DFBM, does post here, at least he used to as of last year. He's the one who tipped me off to this thread in the first place. I'm sure he's lurkin out there somewhere ;)

New Steve Gunn isn't out until early October I thought?

Marcus knows about it for sure, but I'm not sure how much he reads. Neal! (I don't know if that's your real name). Was listening to your Rag Lore release this morning and spent most of the afternoon making stuff inspired by it outside on the deck into a portable Tascam. I dunno if it'll see the light of day (wanna edit it a decent amount) but it was really fun to make. That's a great release.

Chinaski, were those advance/promo copies or are they out yet?

If anyone does happen to speak to marcus, tell him the Steve Palmer is great!

I wrote about the Mike Cooper reissues so managed to get advanced (digital) copies of the Gunn and Bowles albums. Had another listen to the Steve Gunn tonight. Really, really lovely.

I've been away for the best part of a month - so much to catch up on from this thread. Proper goldmine. I'll add my love for that Ry Cooder/V.M Bhatt album - beautiful stuff.

do people rate the last steve gunn record? i can't knock it, but his more singer-songwriter-y stuff feels kind of anonymous compared to his more guitar-y stuff.

also are there any of those VDSQ acoustic LPs i _need_ to have? they are so expensive. :(

I still think Sundowner is my favourite Gunn-related thing, but of the more songwritery stuff, this might be the best I've heard. It's certainly an instant nice fit.

Those VDSQ records - of the ones I've heard the Allen Karpinski (sp?) is my favourite. Like the Richard Bishop one, too.

loved the last steve gunn record -- new one is even more songwriter-y really, but he's nailing it as far as I can tell.
gunn-truscinski LPs might be my fave Gunn thing all that said.

also, the VDSQ are so boring-looking. if i'm gonna pay $27 for a LP at least it could look nice :(

i do have the bishop one

can't imagine wanting to hear thurston moore acoustic

The Chris Brokaw vdsq one is amazing

do people rate the last steve gunn record? i can't knock it, but his more singer-songwriter-y stuff feels kind of anonymous compared to his more guitar-y stuff.

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Funny cause I was trying to figure out why, in my head, he is distinct from other indie-alt-country acts even at his most "anonymous" sounding. There's something very breezy and un-gimmicky that's maintained in his work I guess.

i think that's fair, maybe it just hasn't "got" me yet.

gunn feels way more grateful dead than alt country to me

totally

yeah, and he's this totally distinctive and interesting (to me at least) guitar player, which is where a lot of alt-country falls flat to me. instrumentally, it's usually kinda boring. with gunn you 've got the dead, you've got jj cale, maybe some jansch/renbourn action + all of his dronier/experimental background.

everyone should remember to tune in to Three Lobed's Hopscotch show! it's going to start streaming in 10 hours now, at 11:45AM eastern standard time.

listen online at http://www.wxdu.org/ or download the free Tune In app for your phone and 'follow' WXDU station to listen in. gonna be a fucking great show, for sure.

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! Band consists of Steve Gunn, Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew, Letha Rodman Melchoir, and William Tyler.)
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)

Ha, I just came to post about this show as I am a WXDU DJ and there it is already. I'll be there with my two kids, hope all you guys and gals across the nation can tune in! For those that don't recognize the name, Jenks is the main man behind Horseback and also plays in Mount Moriah. This set promises to be some sort of full band psyche style.

cool, hopefully there'll be a recording/archive of the show. won't get to listen too closely at work, and the one earbud treatment i'd have to give it wouldn't be ideal anyway