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

thanks! I think we all had fun doing in and are planning to do more....we only got together 3 or 4 times before the show so I think we can achieve a more psychic garcia/weir/lesh mental jam connection with more practice

yeah dudes, palmer/sowell/helgeson is sounding groovy! you have my permission to quit yr day jobs and focus on this full time.

"we've added the only thing that can make American Primitive guitar even *more* lucrative.....free improv!"

*mr. burns fingers*

Who is gonna wear the short shorts and tank tops Global, you? An integral part of the Weir sound.

Also, in re "we've added the only thing that can make American Primitive guitar even *more* lucrative.....free improv!", I can tell you all you want to know about this hah hah.

make it rain!

just came across this relevant ad
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJfEW-SVAAEeVnR.jpg

lmao

dude's solo banjo LP by the light of the loews minibar is next level shit

Hah hah. Bonus points for it being a 6 string with pickups and volume knobs.

checked out this latest dying for bad music thang from Andy Mcleod this morning -- an eclectic mix of sounds... straight takoma, bowles-ian banjo workouts, spacier electric stuff, carter family trad jams. i like! https://dyingforbadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/forge-the-valley

Hey, how was that Steve Gunn Band show? Any new songs? And was Elkington definitely in the fold, or was it Sukeena? Don't think I will get to see them on this tour anyway, but just curious.

Great show! MdG was great, highlight was actually this really stern, mammoth 10 min instrumental on pump organ

Gunn band w Elkington was really in the zone, maybe a less classic rock guitar hero version of Solar Motel, but yeah epic jams... Jennifer Castle was good, very beautiful voice, a wee bit twee at times but will end up buying the record,

Nice, didn't get to see the Sukeena version but the show I saw with Elkington was great. That Matthew De Gennaro set sounds right up my alley, I love the sound of a pump organ.

Hi, I haven't been here for a while, but wanted to leave something for you:
Andy McLeod: http://dyingforbadmusic.bandcamp.com/yum?code=2nte-gv4m
Lebo Jenkins: http://dyingforbadmusic.bandcamp.com/yum?code=ykqh-ybvg
Should work for a few downloads.

Also: Check out Alex Archibald: http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2015/07/alex-archibald-accidental-waltzes-2015.html
It's a nice short EP, just the right size.

Thanks for throwing these up Nikolaus, Tyler already repped for that McLeod, psyched to check the rest of these out.

took a rare trip to the record store over the weekend, picked up a few things relevant to this thread, including
http://cdn.discogs.com/WBTT4FBB2PAr6-JSRUyi-XQT7Sg=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2654014-1295128405.jpeg.jpg
which is very good!

also grabbed the Cromarty Wind in the Heather LP, which I'd only had on mp3. that album is gorgeous.

yeah wind in the heather is great, and a lot easier to track down than grassroots guitar

funny story: i spoke w/metzger once about his influences and he says he never even heard of fahey before people started comparing him to fahey, but he LOVES duck baker

ha, that is great. he's new to me (unless he showed up on some comp I'm forgetting about).

think he has ties to stefan grossman. he's also on this very excellent collection:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81SWickNBYL._SL1210_.jpg

ooh that looks good - yeah the Duck Baker album is on Kicking Mule, which I think was Grossman's label?
also got this one!
http://cdn.discogs.com/lhioGswxJY-cfJds8Sh36DaVl2I=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5640717-1398703333-8427.jpeg.jpg

Speaking of Duck Baker, local jazz station used to play some of his takes on Monk--think there was a whole album---just now spotted this (if it's gone, it's a YouTube clip in which he demonstrates how to play Monk on guitar: a nine-minute workshop, but not too clinical)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF055gY1af0

grossman is kinda nerdy guitar stuff but i like him ok

i've just heard a couple things by him, but this one sounded very nice.

xpost: well, his first release was an instructional lp... most entertaining grossman i've heard is a library lp he and a bunch of people did demonstrating different old-timey styles.

another good kicking mule lp to look out for: http://ghostcapital.org/peter-finger-bottleneck-guitar-solos-kicking-mule-km-116-1973/

yeah! i like that album. kicking mule stuff i've heard is pleasingly low-key.

https://igcdn-photos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t51.2885-15/1922247_1661948707359269_1149418051_n.jpg
xylouris white was so good last night, everyone should go see them. seriously amazing.

Nice, and I wish! Glad you got to at least.

Jim White is one of the greatest living drummers imo
ready to agree with this, just a stunning musician, pure inventiveness, natural feel, great hair.

Hah hah "great hair" otm. Not to be underrated if you can pull it off (which I unfortunately cannot).

And yeah, pretty much any record with Jim White is a good record.

You going to Red Rocks tonight?

i am! should be fun. two wild nights in a row, though, i feel tired already.

Hah hah. I am sure you will have fun man, seems like a pretty ideal way to see the Gunn Band, and a damn fine way to spend an evening. Maybe Nels Cline will make it wild for the Wilco set too.

tyler have you heard "you follow me" by nina nastasia & jim white?

You guys are gonna have to school me on Duck Baker. I've never heard his name outside of those Stefan Grossman guitar videos, and a quick Googling shows lots of traditional Irish stuff (usually not my bag, unless I'm in Ireland). Where to start? The song I just heard - "Child Of My Heart" - is wonderful.

And now I'm listening to some stuff with Zorn and Derek Bailey and not feeling it so far (but I'm generally unmoved by both Bailey and Zorn)

i have heard that nastasia album but i should revisit...
i'm new to baker, but the one i got is super solid! start there!

My lady friend was in Peru for three weeks and I was missing her, so I got a bit tipsy one night and made this podcast. Thought it would be relevant to this topic:
http://imgur.com/pnMTqJy
http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2015/06/acoustic-mix-for-angel-in-peru.html

Sorry, that should be:
http://i.imgur.com/pnMTqJy.png
http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com/2015/06/acoustic-mix-for-angel-in-peru.html

gunn at red rocks was sweet - they sounded really good in a big open space. almost dareisay zeppelin-esque at times? (musically, not vocally haha)

I've been lurking on this thread because I CANNOT catch up to you guys, so I've been pretty quiet. Anyway, Glenn Jones playing my wedding this Saturday. He's been super nice. Him and his wife will be guests when he isn't playing- hoping we'll be able to chat and I'll try to get some footage of him playing. He said he has some new pieces he'll be playing for us!

oh man that is so cool... and congrats! being married is the best.
see if glenn will break this one out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3V9mIP7kQ

Oh cool Evan, have a great time! That should be great, hope you have a really wonderful day/night.

There are some total pastoral-version Zeppelin moments in those recent Gunn band songs. Just kinda production/sound-wise with the guitars, but I hear it for sure. Would have loved to see that kinda thing at Red Rocks, though a small and intimate room where I am right up front ain't so bad either. Hope to do one or the other sometime soon.

funny you mention gunn's vox because i noticed he has this phrasing thing he does ALL THE TIME where he ends a phrase kind of in the way dylan ends lines like "he not busy being born is busy DY-IN'" or "even the president of the united states must sometimes stand NA-KED" (like emphasizing the last 2 syllables of the line)

thanks guys! xposts

Yeah Death Kit Train is a good one for the processional I'd say, right?

pretty sure it was written for that express purpose

and re: gunn's vocals, he really does seem to have come into his own in that area -- sounded super confident/powerful last night (without losing his low-key charm).

xpost Wimmels, you might also wanta check that Duck Baker video I posted here a couple days ago, where he's playing "Blue Monk."

congrats evan, v jealous

realised I never got back to global re just intonation/unusual tunings. to get really commit you have to redo your fretboard and working in the already unpopular realm of modern composition that limits things a lot and I think there really are only a handful of guitarists playing this stuff, you're definitely in youtube videos with three-figure views territory. also this often seems to go hand in hand with theatrical vocals for reasons which remain unclear to me.

larry polansky has done some pretty interesting stuff, some of it super dry but this is a jaunty folksy one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yiZ8bzoSW4

and I really like this piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuZ--ziRcE

this james tenney duo for two delicately out of tune guitars has some nice bits especially the gnarly final ten seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOP4Q6GEM48

if we're just talking wacky tunings there's some steffen basho junghans improv stuff with detuned guitars (not my favourite of his stuff but he has such a gorgeous touch he's always a pleasure to listen to) and while we're on the subject of more out there guitarists it would be remiss not to mention hans reichel who was amazingly inventive, had a very distinctive rich sound full of overtones, built loads of his own guitars (with strange features like frets right up to the bridge, guitars with fretboards either side of a bridge, harmonic capos) and was a genuine virtuoso in a way none of the guys we talk about here could come close to. one of my absolute favourite guitarists, in any top 3 I'd ever have to make, and horribly underrated; when he died there was pretty much a media silence it was so depressing