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

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hahaha
gross

think it was mentioned somewhere on this thread, but i listened to Michael Chapman's Playing Guitar The Easy Way this morning and it is soooo nice

i was just telling myself that i was gonna listen to some chapman today, that album it is!

his set here in the cities was soooo good, ugh

yeah that one is great, you'll recognize a few songs he did during his set

Another track from the upcoming Hayden Pedigo album up on Vogue of all places (everyone wants in on the action these days). This one features Steffen Basho-Junghans, and is probably my favorite of the 3 or 4 songs from this I have heard:

http://www.vogue.com/3620065/hayden-pedigo-guitar-five-steps/

Also I know there are some Scott Tuma-heads on here. Just saw that Scissor Tail Editions is reissuing "Hard Again / The River ..." as a 2 x LP. Note also that they reissued "The Hired Hand" on vinyl as well, which you can access via the bandcamp below as well:

https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/hard-again-the-river-1-2-3-4

wow the hayden track sounds great...it being on vogue.com is really odd

Maybe fingerstyle guitar is the new way to become the "Sassiest Boy In America".

Cheers for the heads up on the Tuma/Langhorne releases. Now I have to go through the PAIN of gambling on the possibility of UK distribution or taking a good humping on the US-UK postage deals. Ho hum.

well-played from hayden for getting in vogue

got both the new forsyth and steve gunn LPs last night, but i'm bummed bc there's a scuff right at the beginning of side 1 track 1 on the gunn album. i'll be able to return it but ugh, it was the only copy in the store.

chuck johnson just posted a bunch of new stuff on soundcloud, looks like he's getting a lot of work doing television scores! which is cool i'm sure pays better

it's cool stuff though some of it really has nothing to to do with his guitar stuff, some is synth etc, but yeah atmospheric and cool

(but some is guitar stuff too, anyway chuck is great)

remember loving crows in the basilica, should give that another spin

oh wait i am getting him mixed up with this:
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2012/04/rc-johnston-fahey-project.html

(which is also cool/not that derivative of Fahey despite what the context might suggest)

crows in the bascila is one of the best albums of the last few years in this whole thread IMO

help - i preordered solar motel lp and still haven't gotten it
do i need to ask what's wrong?
(i wouldn't ask but i swear to the almighty spirit that there is something about his records that repels them from my home -- i had to write like 8 emails to get the last one i ordered iirc)

i haven't gotten my preorder either. apparently they were missing the street name on my order. i emailed them and they got back to me pretty quick... here's hoping. i don't know if that was a screwup because of paypal or something on their end, but it's never happened before. i dunno. kind of annoying

weak! yeah, you should just get in touch w/ mike at no quarter.

*sigh*
ok

but seriously i don't know why this keeps happening to me!

Gee- I'm going to pick this one up in a store for sure given all this.

I took my gunn lp back. what a bummer! The guy at the store noticed a bunch of other scuffs on it too. Jeez. New vinyl!

It happens! That's why labels and retailers accept exchanges on new stock.

new digital danny paul grody record - https://dannypaulgrody.bandcamp.com/album/furniture-music
guess it's older compositions, re-recorded. sounding lovely right now.

oh! and this michael chapman sesh from a little while back is wonderful: freemusicarchive.org/music/Michael_Chapman/Live_on_WFMUs_Surface_Noise_with_Joe_McGasko_-_September_25_2014/

one more! bachman does jack rose and william moore: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/11/05/the-lagniappe-sessions-daniel-bachman/

Intensity Ghost is sooooooo good

bandcamp discover, Time and Temperature (think this is just one person though)

anyway, i guess the early cat power comparisons are there, but the guitar work is very cool and unique, great UK folk feel to it, i really love this, very evocative

http://timeandtemperature.bandcamp.com/

Got some catching up to do here, but wanna throw this up so that everyone can dig in while it is available. Nathan Bowles' new album "Nansemond" is up for streaming. Have at it, everything I have heard so far has been great, definitely going to be grabbing this one when I can:

http://pitchfork.com/advance/593-nansemond/

listened to that bowles record several times this weekend, really trasporting stuff.
new richard bishop album on the way via Drag City:

SIR RICHARD BISHOP IS BACK, WITH A NEW ALBUM- AND GUITAR- TO PROVE IT!
Sir Richard Bishop's Tangier Sessions will be released on Febuary 17th!
Tangier Sessions tells the oft-told tale: while traveling abroad, nobleman meets guitar. Guitar is too expensive for nobleman and, outraged, he departs. Nobleman quietly returns several days later for guitar but still can't bring himself to pay the price. Yet nobleman can't get guitar out of mind (he's never heard anything like it) - so nobleman buys guitar, then travels the world with it, enchanted, and makes an album while in Tangier.
On the lookout for something playable- yet portable- last year while living in Geneva, Sir Richard Bishop stumbled into an obscure luthier's shop in a shadowy lane off the high road. He was unable to find what he was looking for, but as he was leaving, the old shopkeep reached behind an ancient, dusty cabin and produced a model identified only by a tiny sticker inside-- "C. Bruno" it read. With no other recognizable attributions, it was clearly an old piece-- likely made in the mad, final days of the 19th century. And the sound! Just to touch it was to hear an instrument of unusual depth. The experience of playing it was equally exquisite. But the price forced Sir Rick to put it down and walk out, empty-handed. A couple days later, he was back, to play it again... and back again a couple days after that, his wallet stuffed fat with Swiss Francs. It was as if he'd been enchanted! Or cursed....
Later in the summer, in the company of said guitar, Bishop holed up for a week in a rooftop apartment in Tangier, Morocco. He spent his time feverishly playing; at night, the pieces on this record were improvised and recorded. An incredible story, we know! But then, all compositions were improvisations once, weren't they?
Alluring from its opening moments, Tangier Sessions unfolds and elongates, chills out and cuts loose in familiar, yet newly unique ways for Sir Richard Bishop. Arriving in the moment that was imagined for them, its songs stretch out, finding themselves in vast, open spaces. Once there, Sir Richard relaxes, yet remains totally focused and present. Meanwhile, the listener is enlightened by the expressiveness and tonality the guitar and he are capable of, symbiotically, in real time. Tangier Sessions is a singular listening experience, even in the crowded realm of solo acoustic guitar albums. Nobody plays the guitar like Sir Richard Bishop - and on Tangier Sessions, he's found a guitar that nobody but him plays, either.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Frontier
2. Bound In Morocco
3. Safe House
4. Hadija
5. Mirage
6. International Zone
7. Let It Come Down

ooh that sounds lovely

bowles record is so great! made my day. just in time, too, i've been really excited about it and listening to too much black twig pickers, so it's scratching that itch for sure

what do we think of intensity ghost? i think yellow square is my favorite, so powerful. seeing them next week! can't wait

Have been told that my intensity ghost is on its way after 2 emails but who knows if I'll hear it before the show?!

Yeah xxpost, that does sound cool! I love guitar stories, and that is a pretty good one.

And yeah, Bowles record making my day too. Love when he stretches out, but a cool range of moods on the record. Nice Fall record, especially if you live in Virginia. Feels like Virginia to me ....

Still haven't heard all of "Intensity Ghost". Gotta get to it.

oh man now I miss fall in Virginia... it's just not the same in the PacNW

One of Virginia's biggest assets is its real seasons. Fall and Spring here in particular are pretty damn great. I would miss distinct seasons if I lived on the West Coast for sure. Nathan's record has a real Virginia theme, not just an imagined one. Lots of places dropped in the song titles and album artwork etc.

Track 7 on that Bowles record, "Sleepy Lake Tire Swing", as a total gem. Definitely don't bail out before that one, it is a stunner.

hmmm, my Intensity Ghost came about a week after I ordered it!

love this photo of Bowles

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/08/25/nathan-bowles-1-lr-8a8d6d1a1a2a80d422144483179e587eb4dd0309-s4-c85.jpg

oooooh child this new nathan bowles is so good so far

Yeah man it really is. Yet another winner from Black Dirt, and happy that Nathan knocked it out of the park on this one.

Also, want to plant the seed for anyone looking to travel to Charlottesville, Virginia: apparently on January 9 Nathan Bowles + Elisa Ambrogio + Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band are all playing at the small Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. On the same bill. Kind of insane.

i love how all over the map this is, from arty stuff to real hoe-down folk stuff

Yeah, great range on the record. Makes for a very nice full-album listen.

unbelievable cville bill! you are getting some good shows.
yeah, the bowles record bounces around quite a bit but still hangs together very nicely. really love this record.

the end of jonah/liza jane is so glorious. prob because it's the first time he really digs into the hoe-down picking stuff. and love the droney part at the end of the last track. can't wait to pick up the record! what a great fall for releases, shit

just came across this kind of amazing peter lang LP cover
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/l/lang_peter~_backtothe_101b.jpg
haven't heard this one but i want to!

Hah that cover is wild. I mean, it has to be good right?