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

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?

Haha that should go in the 70s album covers thread but that's probably 80s

1978! ahead of its time. kind of seems like a robert fripp cover or something. would be sick if it was Lang goin' all art-prog, but i don't think it is.

Really enjoying this Hush Arbors album "Gualala Blues". Mostly instrumental acoustic guitar tunes, very unflashy and mellow but with a nice melancholy/lonesome feel:

https://hush-arbors.bandcamp.com/album/gualala-blues

Keith has of course done a ton of stuff (maybe my favorite live Six Organs incarnation was when he and Moloney were the rhythm section) but I had lost track of what he was up to these days. Nice to hear some new stuff.

The vocal track "No Rest Blues" is really pretty, second-side of On The Beach style (which I guess is partly Hush Arbors bread and butter, but it really is lovely).

Also wanna put up this Bruce Langhorne piece that Tom Carter linked to a bit back. Some of you may know a lot of this stuff, but it was all pretty new to me, really enjoyed it overall. Super interesting guy:

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20850-forgotten-heroes-bruce-langhorne?page=1

Keith was in Chelsea Light Moving, which sorta derailed Hush Arbors for a bit. Glad he's been productive lately, he's great.

Yeah man, saw that CLM tour, it was alright but pretty slight song-wise. Think everyone involved has moved onto better things. Dug the Keith tour when he had Moloney and Jason Ajemian playing with him.

hush arbors thing sounds very nice! haven't really listened to them/him too much...

that bruce langhorne piece is great, works really well as a listener's guide too. I didn't realize what a mensch he was

In 1980, Langhorne left Los Angeles for a cane shack in Hawaii and began a career as a macadamia nut farmer.

nice. he really is a cool and distinctive guitarist -- was just listening to the Richard and Mimi Fariña stuff and he is great there. wish he had done 10 more albums like the hired hand ost.

Hah yeah there are some choice tidbits in the Langhorne piece. Didn't want to spoil it for anyone who didn't know the details. Need to dig into more of his recordings, only really know the obvious ones.

Went on a crazy Bruce Langhorne bender a few years ago that led me to some pretty (otherwise) lousy albums. I like him on those Farina LPs, and I love him on Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (and Hired Hand, obvs), but wish he'd done more solo instrumental stuff. Then again, if he had a whole bunch of similar albums, the Hired Hand soundtrack might not be one of my most-played albums of all time. What I'm saying is, its distinctiveness is really a big part of its charm.

I feel like any random four of us on this thread could go into a room with an Echoplex, a banjo, and everything else Langhorne had at his disposal, and we could learn these (very easy) parts, and the end result would still sound nothing like that record. Such is its mysterious, ineffable greatness!

Still, as (I think) I wrote above, Tuma, LaBrecque, Aycock, et al do scratch some of these same itches imo.

On a completely unrelated note, have any of you guys heard the two Richard Crandell albums with Bill Bartels? Obviously he's known for his classic first album, and then for his (much later) mbira stuff, but he made two duo albums (in the early 80s I think?) that I never hear anyone talking about. I heard one recently - Oregon Hill - and thought it was fantastic! Now I'm wondering about the other one.

yeah my buddy gave me that oregon hill one over the summer and it is great, really nice playing and songs. haven't heard the other one, though (my friend probably has it though, I'll ask).

Cool, thanks! I just really like Crandell in general - his style, his writing, etc. Clearly another guy whose life was changed forever by Takoma / Fahey, but I think he's a pretty distinctive player; to me his touch is often lighter (more Cromarty than Kottke), and his tunes are really all over the place (in a good way).

Ehh, saw some Forsyth Band action in a video getting passed around (from Relix) and Paul Sukeena isn't playing second guitar. Anyone know who the new guy is, and whether Paul is still playing with them? Really like his playing, and seems he helped write the new album (and plays on it), so kind of a bummer if he isn't playing with them any more. Gonna see them in January, hope he is in the fold.

yeah saw that -- kind of a bummer, they obviously had some serious chemistry going there. maybe sukeena is making spacin more of a going concern in the new year? that'd be ok, they are pretty happening. was pointed in the direction of the new guy's stuff here: http://nickmillevoi.bandcamp.com/album/haitian-rail-2

Ahh, I have heard some Millevoi before. Guess that makes sense, but bummer if Sukeena has dropped out. I mean, maybe it is just a touring thing in regards to him not wanting to be on the road, or as you suggest he just wants to get back into Spacin' and other stuff, but I do think that chemistry is hard to come by and he and Forsyth had it. Millevoi is a good player though.

that bruce langhorne piece is great, works really well as a listener's guide too. I didn't realize what a mensch he was

In 1980, Langhorne left Los Angeles for a cane shack in Hawaii and began a career as a macadamia nut farmer.
― nebulous British ilxor (ogmor), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 3:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the great lost outlaw country singer Hoover ended up in Hawaii too, i wonder if they ever crossed paths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7-h2Sc7ko

hahaha what the heck?

Wow haha

cross posted w.richard thompson thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JlxB4KQnU

I haven't checked into this thread in a while, but I thought I'd link to my buddy's bandcamp.
He's just posted a new record that some of yall may dig.
http://hush-arbors.bandcamp.com/album/gualala-blues
Hush Arbors is Keith Wood, he's collaborated with a bunch of heavies.
We were in a band together once. Our last show was opening for Comets on Fire, the rest is history, I guess.

Hah, I just looked upthread.

haha that's ok, this thread moves fast! really enjoyed that hush arbors record, very nice stuff.

Having a last show opening for Comets On Fire is pretty sweet. Going out in style!

And yeah, really enjoyed that H.A. record too (obviously).

hush arbors is really good
what band were you in trip maker?

I Had a Psychotic Reaction to LSD was the name of the band I was in with Keith.
We never got out of Missouri, never made a recording worth a shit, either.
Had a lot of good times, tho.

ha like the band name, too bad there's no recordings!

i can't even make it out of my basement
any time you guys think "hey this could use a beat" please think of me
at least i can make new things remotely!

The noise label Rainbow Bridge, out of Chicago, puts out this project called Minimalism & Juxtaposition. The most recent being volume two of the project. Artists submitted minimalist inspired tracks and the label mixes multiple artists over top of each other. I submitted material for inclusion a while ago and randomly remembered today about doing so. Turns out the project was released just last week. The results are pretty nice:

Here's the track:
https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/track/big-swetter-rag

Here's the full album:
https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/album/minimalism-juxtaposition-vol-2-sw-034

cool idea can't wait to listen to that

hey i picked this album up on a whim, i'm sure you guys are aware of pierre bensusan but i hadn't been previous to this random acquisition. enjoying it!

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

Bensusan is definitely a ripper, and that track you posted is a good one. Have heard some stuff that veers a little off the rails for me into acoustic guitar wank, but he is definitely a skilled dude. (he has/had a big following in Charlottesville for some reason, came through regularly for a while, so a lot of his less interesting stuff would get trotted out on folk shows here in town).

Any of you Minneapolis folks go see the Forsyth & Solar Motel Band show? Curious as to how the new line-up fares. Also curious if anyone asked why Paul isn't touring right now. Am still hoping that maybe when they hit Charlottesville down the road the line-up that made the record will be back in action.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but yall don't sleep on Richard Dawson, esp. new album, Nothing Important. See recently started Dawson thread.

Elements familiar to post-Fahey/acid-folk etc. acolytes, but sounds like boyo's livin' it these days.

Been meaning to check out some more Dawson. Will bump over to that thread.

we got the calvary cross in chicago last night! those guys are total slow jam masters. great show!!