ILX Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday (new post-Fahey folk for ppl posting in Takoma/Tompkins Square threads Pt II)

sir richard playing mpls in april, gotta make that one

saw him end of last year; he's unsurprisingly great

i mean he's always great live but it had been almost eight years since i saw him last and it was as good a show as memory allowed

Hello faithful Delta Slider readers. As you may know the annual Fahey week is approaching. Unfortunately I’m pretty much out of material and buried at work, in other words: I got nuthin’.

So…here’s the opportunity you’ve been looking for! If you’ve always wanted to post an essay about Fahey and his music, your guitar tab of his song, that rare bootleg that hasn’t been posted yet, etc. Then now is the time to contact me about it! If you send me ready to publish material I can post it and you get the byline.

I would love to continue the tradition but frankly I’ve been short on time and resources. Let’s see what happens!! Fahey Week traditionally starts February 22nd.

Use the contact form below or email me at the addy listed in the "About" page.

Thanks all,
Scott

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2015/02/fahey-week-needs-your-help.html

also via twitter, david crosby's fave alt tuning is EBDGAD
FYI

woah CROZ Modal Tuning, i bet i could do some next level shit w/that

the crosby songbook that came out sometime in the early seventies has the tunings (and there are a lot of them!) for his first solo and a bunch of his byrds and csn(y) songs, finding that at like 16 was my intro to non-standard tunings.

his new album ain't bad!

Yeah, it's pretty good. The highs are especially high. Definitely some duds though.

Anyone know Matt Baldwin? Can Nugent was big upping him on FB

name sounds familiar, but I don't think I've heard him.
not sure if it's been talked about but -- glenn jones' vdsq 7-inch is wayyyyyy too brief, but it is lovely. makes me hope he's got a new record on the way soon.

Was gonna chime in last nite regarding Baldwin but was thinking someone else would - he is a ripper for sure, first seen mostly on that Berkeley Guitar comp T. SQ did in '06. But his first full length "Path's of Ignition" is pretty unique as far as solo guitar albums go within that first burst of records in the mid 2000's. Not a subtle record at all as far as I can remember, acoustic solo tracks with electric solos overdubbed on top. He does a Neu! cover and a Juda Priest cover, so that should tell you a lot about his playing. But it comes across as cohesive rather than a grab bag.

I do know he went full on electric there for a while after the first album, I haven't followed much of it except for the minimal synth/guitar stuff he's doing currently, putting it out on tapes. This post had me discover his bandcamp so I'll probably get into that soon enough...

https://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/music

this still floors me- i could listen to the outro forever. still one of Fahey's best moments, IMO:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIaTRKii_M
(Dry Bones in the Valley)

Love the idea of Neu! and Judas Priest. That reminds me of this guy, who is really great- apparently reared on a diet of metal before discovering WIlliam Tyler? https://samuelgrayedmondson.bandcamp.com

Global opened for Daniel Bachman & I couldn't go :(

On week 3 of no guitar to see if I can heal this arm, sucks

Good luck UMS! Hope once you get there it is healed for good. It is painful to watch other folks play sometimes when you can't grab a guitar yourself.

https://sonicmeditations.bandcamp.com/album/basalt-palisades
^^^sounding cool - a collab between chuck johnson and plankton wat

New Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers out! Really enjoying track 'Cardinal 51'

Oooh, gonna check that Chuck Johnson/Plankton Wat collab. Seems like a good bet for fine Friday listening.

Looking forward to that Gunn/Black Twigs collab when I get to it, but gonna let that one come to me by and by. I have a feeling it will work well in the springtime ....

Wanna post this nice musing on a Fahey performance by our own Global. Good stuff, and nice to see it pop up on Delta Slider (which means many of you may already have seen it):

http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2015/02/john-fahey-dance-of-inhabitantslive-u.html

Still geek out frequently listening to the slide action on the track he posts there (a live run through of "Dance of the Inhabitants").

chuck/wat thing sounds cool - johnson seems to have a bunch of new music on the way this year.
global and i have contributed to delta slider's fahey week! what's everyone else's excuse. http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCi-WfU_cv4/VOFa-OrEKKI/AAAAAAAACO4/HdU5RcDDWzM/s1600/Fahey_Lacy_Wilson_Evans.jpg
xp!

hah nice! I ain't going to contribute, but I will enjoy anything that pops up. I have nothing to add about Fahey that would not be better handled by someone else.

you've all let the fahey community down
and yeah holy shit that "dance of the inhabitants" is totally worth singling out -- unbelievable.

Isn't letting the Fahey community down part of embracing the Fahey legacy?

yeah i think that is what fahey would want. disappointment for everyone.

Somewhat related to this, I was just talking with a friend of mine who came up with an idea for a theme for a radio show for a non-profit station here doing a fundraiser, that theme being last songs on last albums from an artist, and I immediately thought of "Untitled With Rain" from Red Cross. To me, a supremely cool song largely enhanced by the long section of recorded studio silence at the end of it. Doing a quick google search brought up this review:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2945-red-cross/

It ends with this passage in re "Untitled With Rain":

The only real misstep is "Untitled with Rain". For six minutes, the song flows leisurely across faintly ringing organ tones and chimes, with just a few scattered notes recalling some of Fahey's concrete leanings. At that moment, the music dissipates into eighteen minutes of thoroughly impenetrable silence while the ambient noise of a deserted studio is mic'd up for, presumably, listening pleasure. Sadly, his generally keen abstract edge is at its dullest-- any similar track from City of Refuge makes this seem like a cheap gimmick. And worse, if it weren't for the (almost fittingly) unnamed tonal reverb of the track's final two minutes, the closing seconds of his final album would conclude in a vacuum. Even if Red Cross is less of a striking conclusion than a broad summation, it's a tragedy to allow the vague recognitions elicited here to evaporate into nothing. It's silence in remembrance of a talented, haunted man, but he deserves a eulogy, and his guitar speaks better than anyone ever could.

Key words here: "the closing seconds of his final album would conclude in a vacuum". Freaking perfect to me, love it. The void is real, and the best playing/art/records find a way to inhabit/illustrate it. So fuck it, I lied, there is my Fahey piece.

I prefer the version with the fahey trio where JF reads the liner notes to blind joe death, there's something so intense and sad and wonderful about it

was never clear how much fahey had planned red cross, I recall some faheyites considering it a posthumous grab bag rather than a proper fahey album

Could be, I have no idea. I just dig the effect. Don't think I have ever heard the trio/liner notes reading, gonna go check that out.

man that review is some bullshit

also I thought about it a while ago and I still think it's a good idea so I was wondering if instead of running one or more fahey polls if people would be up for a fahey listening thread where we gradually work through the big man's output in a neophyte-friendly fashion?

early pitchfork!
didn't know that some don't consider red cross "illegitimate" -- for some reason i thought it was all ready to go before he died. but i am probably misremembering.

Just wanna sign onto a Fahey listening thread Ogmor, as I am no completist and would learn a lot trawling throught the years of Fahey with some guidance.

Mind you I have heard plenty, it would just be a nice way to fill in the gaps. While I like polls OK, I think I would find a Fahey poll tedious.

I would also rather have a listening thread that another artist poll

yeah a listening thread would be great (don't really want to do a ranking thing). but it'd be great to go through it with y'all.

Posting on phone so excuse the brevity. Thanks for the plug Tyler! I love love love that recording. I hope I can turn others into it. untitled with rain is great, I love the atmosphere and studio banter you can hear. And absolutely would participate in a Fahey discography run through

Damn, I love this short piece/excerpt from the upcoming Tashi Dorji LP on Bathetic. I don't know, just works for me but won't convince anyone not into it already. Just rides a lot of lines I enjoy:

http://adhoc.fm/post/tashi-dorji-murmur/

gotta check that new dorji out.
very nice mix courtesy marcus at dying for bad music: http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2015/02/dfbm-67-morning-raga-pt-i.html

also on dfbm - this amazing ad
http://40.media.tumblr.com/891826abf3dfe379ef718cc0f2f915ee/tumblr_n6k9bpObyj1qi56ero1_500.jpg

Crispy!
I would be down with a listening thread
I don't wanna do a poll, I'm not good at ranking stuff

agree on both counts.

also i never post here but this is the best thread on ilx, basically everything i hear from this thread is dope, thanks yall

Happy birthday -
Terry Robb posted this pic of him and Fahey in studio, 1983

http://i62.tinypic.com/qxt0g0.jpg

Fahey week still going over at delta slider, Scott put up those DoD outtakes I uploaded along with another post of the full Zabriskie Point sessions. Which are pretty wild, seemingly endless, low fidelity noodling. Loving it. Had never come across it before.

swweeeeeet. still gotta check out those dance of death outtakes. never heard the zabriskie pt sessions either! i love fahey's (perhaps untrue) story about a fistfight w/ antonioni.

That story in "How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life" is so good, whether completely true or not. Might need to read that book again, it has been a while.

Also, welcome Adam! Nice to know there are some folks tuning in here. An endlessly generous thread in my opinion.

the gunn/twig pickers is really great, like the more casual jammy feel, the last gunn album is good but almost felt a bit too put together in some way

I love that Gunn record, especially after seeing the songs from it live, but really look forward to hearing that Gunn/Pickers record for the reason you mention too (i.e., a loose run through of some primo material by some great musicians).

Checking out this new Andrew Weathers tape (well, bandcamp stream) and really enjoying it:

https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/littlefield

Nice phrasing and repetition in my opinion, pretty considered and restrained but purposefully so. Nice sound all around for me.

you can check out a track from the new/great daniel bachman record on three lobed now: http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/river