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Yeah I like the smaller body guitars for that reason, too.
Well either way my jumping off point about nylon guitar stylings stands. Would love to hear more records with that influence.
― Evan, Monday, 2 February 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
I was finding the banjo tuning hard to adapt to or experiment on, but as I got better at finger picking + experimented with other tunings it got much much more fun.
― Evan, Monday, 2 February 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
If anyone is looking for some afternoon listening, I just put up my latest Dais Queue live set. Lots of mellow prepared guitar stuff, but some guitar-as-guitar at the 17 minute mark or so. Pretty happy with it overall:
https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/dais-queue-live-1-28-2015
― grandavis, Monday, 2 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
digging this, at about 15 mins now this has been nice workin tunes
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Cool, thanks man. The "nice workin tunes" demographic is a good one for me I think.
― grandavis, Monday, 2 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
only partially fahey folk but if anyone's in massachusetts or boston marissa nadler is playing a show on 3/7 with glenn jones and damon & naomi
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 2 February 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux is now a part of Mind of Mirrors and their upcoming dates include some rad guests. New album was put out on Immune a couple days ago too.
Feb 2 - Detroit, MI - TrinosophesFeb 4 - WFMU - The John Allen ShowFeb 5 - Brooklyn - Union Pool presented by Ad Hoc *Feb 6 - Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda's presented by Bowerbird *Feb 7 - Baltimore - 5th Dimension * w/ Bobby DonnieFeb 8 - Durham - Pinhook presented by Rough Drift #Feb 9 - Athens - The World Famous #Feb 10 - Asheville - Mothlight #Feb 11 - Nashville - Stone Fox #Feb 12 - Louisville - tba #Feb 13 - Bloomington - The Artifex Guild # w/ Tyler DamonFeb 14 - Lafayette - The Spot #Feb 15 - Chicago - Hideout # w / LagarthaFeb 17 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club # presented by Acme RecordsFeb 19 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill # w/ PhosphenesFeb 20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry # w/ Steve Palmer* w/ Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band // Horse Lords# w/ Daniel Bachman
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 04:40 (nine years ago) link
UMS I've always wanted one of those banjar/guitjo hybrid's, they sound great.
Evan you can always put a banjo in something like open c as well, it's really fun to play that way. After doing basic open g frailing and the like, I wound up playing it kinda like a 4 string guitar, thumbing the 4th and 2nd strings and doing single note hammers/bends with the 1st string, all the while heading up and hitting that drone string with your thumb every now and then. It's easy to do raga sounding stuff with that technique in open c. The tuning is gCGCE.
Nylon strings:There's a guy on bandcamp who I've wanted to suggest for a bit now: Marcus Eads, he has some material written for classical guitar. His stuff is actually real nice, cleanly recorded and unhurried in approach. http://marcus-eads.bandcamp.com/album/sherburne-county-instrumentals
I also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.
Less Fahey, more flat out psych folk, but one of my old favorites, Cursillistas (now Herbcraft), always used a nylon guitar for his recordings.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Here is the early country blues artist Sylvester Weaver playing a six string banjo, recorded in 1927. He's the guy who recorded the first unaccompanied solo guitar tracks, lap style, in 1923.. huge influence on solo guitar and he's got such a wide range of playing styles. Him, his brother, and their childhood friends like BBQ Bob were all taught by Mrs. Weaver growing up in Georgia. His mother comes from the prior generation of unrecorded blues musicians, where as the Weavers and friends were of the first generation to be recorded.
"Six String Banjo Piece" youtube.com/watch?v=GhjCi67ow3U
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Before I go spouting too much nonsense :) Having been born in KY, Sylvester is actually unrelated to the Curly/BBQ family lineage. The rest of still stands though.I thought there were more examples of traditional six string banjo but haven't come up with anything, don't know who plays it on a current rekkid either.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know barbecue bob was taught by sylvester weaver's mum, that's wild
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 07:59 (nine years ago) link
also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.think this was her -- pretty nice stuff: http://www.discogs.com/Linda-Cohen-Leda/release/2345556
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Marcus is great! I met him via Facebook recently, he lives in Minnesota and I hope to go see him soon, he's playing a rare show (said he hadn't played in a few years)
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Nic Garcia, Kyle Fosburgh, and Matt Sowell had a show last night, all three of those guys played great
picked up Kyle's reissue of Robbie Basho - Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12 -- WOW
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the banjo suggestion, Neal! I've definitely been coming around to it more now that my finger picking is a bit better. I'll try open C, too!
― Evan, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Shit, I'd meant to get that Basho reissue.
it's on par with visions of the country, impossibly beautiful music
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
no difference between that and the Windham Hill version, right?
― parakeetal pancreasface (sleeve), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
no bonus tracks, no...i think those two are my fave basho...celestial. don't miss that live download EP grass top put out as well...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
see maybe that's why I'm confused - was that the "preview"? or something else?
― parakeetal pancreasface (sleeve), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah, they may have said it was a preview of the art of acoustic reissue ... for some reason. whatever it is, it is awesome.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah they called it a "preview" but it's really not, the actual reissue is different that's the Windham Hill album
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
thank you, that explains my confusion.
― parakeetal pancreasface (sleeve), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
i found a pristine copy of the OG release of that basho album for a buck last year, was pretty psyched
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
damn that's a score
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i got visions for pretty cheap a few years ago, but it was not in good shape (weird for windham hill records in my experience!)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah i've never bought any new agey album that wasn't in pristine condition
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
dudes were partying too hard rockin out to basho i guess
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah this one had seen some action
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Man I love Linda Cohen! She definitely came up in the old thread and that record "Leda" is cool as hell in my opinion.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Sylvester just has the same last name, and is unrelated :/ my mistake
Yeah thanks for digging that one up tyler, it's great!
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone else back that kickstarter for Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho, the Basho doc? Hopefully it'll come out before summertime, was looking forward to it's release last year and then it completely fell off my radar.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
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"In East Or West, I See No Christ", written by Andrew Hammond
hah! great title.
― Neal Cassady, Sunday, 8 February 2015 06:51 (nine years ago) link
lol
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 8 February 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
ha, andy is an old friend of mine, NC you truly have your ear to the ground!
― ogmor, Sunday, 8 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Grass Tops putting out a Dennis Taylor reissue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wbEks6xgpg
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
who is sean proper? i like his song on the new imaginational anthem
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
young guy out of florida i think? i have one of his records -- it was ok, but his imaginational anthem track suggests he's gotten a LOT better.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
overall, this edition of IA is really great, Hayden Pendigo did a great job curating it
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah i don't think there's a bad (or even boring) track in there, and it flows nicely
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah and such a good variety while still feeling like a coherent "scene" (which in a lot of ways is one of my favorite things about the stuff we talk about on this thread overall, is that you can mention like duck baker or the crazy ass new 6 organs stuff)
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
totally...you can check out some of that forthcoming dennis taylor reissue on grass tops now: https://soundcloud.com/grasstopsrecording/sets/dayspring
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Gotta go listen to those Taylor tracks. Might have to go listen to that Six Organs record two or three more times first though ....
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
First track from the Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers album has been put up:
http://www.stereogum.com/1736873/steve-gunn-the-black-twig-pickers-trailways-ramble-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Nice sound, very mellow overall. I imagine this is only one of many directions this album goes in, this being probably the most straightforward, but we'll see. Hoping for some really deep, extended meditations though.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
currently doing some deep listening to sir richard's new one -- some seriously beautiful playing.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
I listened to Road To Siam last night, whetting my appetite
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
i haven't even heard that one... dude is hard to keep up with. i think i have three records of his from 2014!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, keep forgetting about this Sir Richard album. There is gonna be a lot of stuff coming out in the next few months, crazy.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
His playing was beautiful when I saw him live last year. I was going into it under the impression that it would be a bit more abstract/avant-garde/indirect than it ended up being. Excited to hear the new one.
― Evan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah this one is very melodic -- some more shredding kinda moments, but mostly lovely tunes (albeit still w/ the tension he seems to bring to everything)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link