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

Forsyth and co are coming back to the Entry. It's up on the First Ave site!

nice!

Yeah man, want to catch the Solar Motel tour for the new album too. Hope both of these bands get elevated attention, they are operating on a high level.

I didn't see anyone recording... it's possible! I would be beyond thrilled if it were.

I mean this whole touring band definitely needs to be heard by everyone. Decided to check out Jim Elkington because I was so impressed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTQ91n5kaI

yeahh, that elkington / salsburg record is very nice. think there might be a new one on the way?
he was in a band called the zincs a while back that I enjoyed quite a bit.

Is also in the Horse's Ha with Janet Bean of Freakwater / Eleventh Dream Day, etc. Great band.

I **think** I'm the official ilx Zincs fanboy.

Because, jeez, were they good.

I know I saw the Zincs live (and enjoyed it), but I am not sure I have ever checked out any recordings. Gonna have to go down that road. Horse's Ha too.

yeah haven't checked out horse's ha, tho i generally dig freakwater. zincs made me think of the sea and cake doing feelies covers, but i haven't listened in a while.
hey, i wrote about global's album over here! http://t.co/PAEROAztkQ

great write-up, thank you! surreal to see my name splashed up on there. gotten some good feedback from people resulting from the post too

Yeah man, that was a great write-up. Congratulations on the activity Global, well-deserved. Gonna dig into the Avant Ghetto radio archive today too, look forward to hearing you in the mix.

It really is fantastic music- congrats! I hope I can get there sometime myself. You're motivating me... the record is so good.

i need to hear the rest of it!
good job fellas

it really is a great album

thanks all!

only partway through water wheel but this NYC taper set is fantastic. band sounding on point.

have to login via FB for this, but new Solar Motel track up:

http://classicrock.teamrock.com/features/2014-10-15/high-hopes-chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band#

got to hear this twice when they were in MPLS, they soundchecked with it. it was rad

Acidjack of NYCtaper also just uploaded Ryley Walker's set from Hopscotch Fest. The full band sound is so great, hoping that this is the exact material to appear on the next full length.

http://www.nyctaper.com/2014/10/ryley-walker-september-6-2014-hopscotch-music-festival-fletcher-opera-theater-raleigh-nc-flacmp3full-set-streaming/

A lot of people raved about that set, psyched to check it out when I get a chance. Thanks Neal!

I enjoy W. Tyler plenty, but his playing can come across as "just" pleasant at times because of how smoothe and effortless his playing sounds (imo). If I am not in the mood it can come off as a little toothless and send me looking for something else.

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i think that's an issue. sometimes i am swept away by the grandeur of his music, other times it strikes me as pretty and dull. lately i've been having the latter reaction.

the new steve gunn is really a grower, i find myself playing it every day. i should probably find the sameness of the melodies objectionable, and perhaps i will wear it out soon, but i'm digging the hell out of it ATM.

can someone repost the link to that downloadable gunn live show? i tried downloading it several times at home and it just stalled; maybe i'll try at work.

That show is so good. Give the album a rest and dig into it: http://www.nyctaper.com/2014/10/steve-gunn-october-12-2014-rough-trade-nyc-flacmp3streaming-full-set/

Little accecdote just posted this morning on the Yahoo Fahey email group:

Virgil E. said "Some of Fahey's early recordings were done on Gene Rosenthal's reel-to-reel in Gene's basement. The original recording of Dance of Death for sure."

Glenn Jones replies, "There's a whole unreleased Fahey album amongst Gene Rosenthal's archives, as well as hours worth of film shot by Gene of Fahey and several other collectors canvassing for 78 RPM records in the south in the '60s. Gene played some of his Fahey tapes for Lance Ledbetter at Dust-to-Digital several years ago. Lance told me Fahey's playing is sharp as a tack and that it's some of the best recorded Fahey he's ever heard. But Rosenthal is impossible to deal with -- unlikely it'll be issued any time soon, if ever."

This email group used to super active, nowadays gems like the above pop up every few weeks or so. But the membership is spiked with tons of people who were close to Fahey himself. It's kinda annoying but surely worth it to just sign up for a random yahoo account, join the Fahey group, and then forward all the mail to your proper email addy.

as well as hours worth of film shot by Gene of Fahey and several other collectors canvassing for 78 RPM records in the south in the '60s.

^^ wow would love to see this

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FaheyGuitarPlayers/info
The group has been brought up here before as difficult to follow. But once you forward your Yahoo inbox to your real address, checking out new posts is as easy as going through your inbox.

But really though, that material Glenn is talking sounds perfect, especially if it was recorded around the time of Vol. 2 Dance of Death. That guy Gene used to be very active at the Yahoo group and everything Glenn suggests seems to be true regarding Rosenthal's personality, such a bummer when stuff gets locked up and kept under wraps.

Yeah for sure. Moving pictures of a young Fahey. Something never seen other than that one tiny tiny clip in either Desparate Man Blues or that new doc. I can't remember but it's Fahey holding a Patton (maybe wrong?) record up to the camera.

Yeah, would be very cool to see, and lowsy that it isn't likely to be any time soon. Hope it sees the light of day at some point. Maybe Glenn can sweet talk him somehow.

And, speaking of Glenn, Steve Lowenthal just posted that the next two VDSQ records will be Glenn Jones and Matthew Mullane. New Glenn tune here:

https://soundcloud.com/vdsq-1/glenn-jones-changing-ships-on-a-falling-tide

lol any relation?

In re the Mullane record via Steve: "This Mullane LP ... people aren't ready. Total next level. The bar has been raised."

oops never mind, got the names wrong

Hah yeah Sleeve, different folks. Had never heard of Gene Rosenthal other than what was posted here.

man, wonder what rosenthal's problem is! weird dudes abound when it comes to fahey i guess. guess it's another one for 78 Collectors: Why are they so weird?

on my phone so can't track it down but there are bunch of posts by him on a folk msgboard thread about the fahey doc which iirc he felt somewhat aggrieved by & he shares some p interesting details abt fahey

he made it clear that he had a lot of material & expertise. tbh anything which increases the chance of a further fahey film is good news in my book

Posted yesterday over at Decoder. Haven't listened to it all the way through yet, sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Az0QGQsrU#t=181

Yeah Neal, that is a good video, though I didn't make it through the whole thing yet. Gotta look into Norberto some more though, he touched on a lot of cool stuff.

Another good one is this video of the Gunn Band in Philly. Good video and pretty good audio as well, very clear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZ5zezqVA0&feature=youtu.be

Really hope the four piece from this tour makes more records/tours again. They had great chemistry, would be too bad if it was a one-off.

Oh man, some really choice Gunn/Elkington interplay on the last track of that video.

I was definitely impressed with their interplay and Elkington in general since I'd never heard of him. BTW the dude looks like Harrison Ford does't he?

Man, I really hope I can get to that level of playing in that video (them in general).

I get a headache trying to figure out how Steve manages to play some of those parts and sing at the same time.

Haha for sure! "Wildwood" came to mind.

I feel the same way about the Clientele. Those guitar parts are super knotty underneath a lot of singing.

Hell, Polvo too!

Hah at one point in my life I did not know that Polvo played in alternate tunings. I would try to sound like them and be like "what the hell man, why does my guitar sound so lame". This despite the fact that I knew Sonic Youth tuned differently, I just couldn't figure it out.

Haha yeah I can relate to that for sure.

Oops didn't mean to say "Haha for sure" practically twice in a row.

As if these folks weren't already coming dangerously close to having a monopoly on my new records budget, it has been confirmed that there will be a collab Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pickers album out on Thrill Jockey in 2015. Hard to imagine it will be anything other than very good to great.

Very cool!

this guy chooses really interesting material to cover -- here he is interpreting the chantilly codex. he also played a bunch of gesualdo pieces a few years ago i think. http://noelakchote.bandcamp.com/album/baude-cordier-complete-works-chansons-for-three-and-four-voices-codex-de-chantilly-arranged-for-guitar

maybe you already talked about him
i'm behind!