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

I'd go for the non-water version. I can definitely see a USPS-related mishap ruining someone's day.

This is nice - mellow, pensive, out of time, like the best of this stuff. I keep waiting for vocals to come in though, for some reason.

i think she usually has vocals on her stuff...

let's hear it for emma ruth rundle! https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/electric-guitar-one
i really like this, göteborg is my favorite track but it's all super mellow and droney <3

idk if this sort of thing belongs here or on another thread but i feel like you guys might appreciate it. i'd say fans of the dronier side of steven r smith would enjoy.

really into it

yeah this is great

ooh yeah, nice. similar mood to that dean mcphee record from earlier this year, or the noveller album. she really recorded this in the back seat of a van?

idk -- i get the impression she did the primary noodling while she was in the van and then they edited some stuff together at home?
it's a pretty short album, i have no idea
but i like it

loving this chuck johnson NYC set - http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/08/chuck-johnson-august-2-2015-union-pool-flacmp3streaming/
he sounds great on electric!

^ chuck is great... blood moon boulder is probably one of my top guitar releases of the year, familiar-sounding but fresh and doesn't get bogged down with flash.

enjoying this today, particularly the banjo stuff but it's all pretty good:

https://jamestweeddale.bandcamp.com/album/weird-world-rolls-on

new michael chapman on tompkins square sounding great

tourdates w/ ryley walker coming up too:

10/08/15 North Bethesda, MD (USA) AMP
10/09/15 Brooklyn, NY (USA) Rough Trade
10/10/15 Portland, ME (USA) Waking Windows Music And Arts
10/11/15 Providence, RI (USA) Columbus Theater
10/13/15 Albany, NY (USA) The Low Beat
10/14/15 Northampton, MA (USA) Iron Horse Music Hall

here's a track: https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/jack-by-michael-chapman

That's a nice track. Cool that he is swinging through for some shows too.

New Tashi / Marisa Anderson split LP just announced

http://www.footfallsrecords.com

Yeah, that looks like a good record! Big fan of both Tashi and Marisa, especially live, and a great pairing for a split. Guess it is just two sides, not a collab at all, but cool regardless.

very cool combo. i like split albums!
checkin out this new nyc taper recording of alan licht playing some solo things from a forthcoming vdsq record: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/08/alan-licht-august-2-2015-union-pool-flacmp3streaming/

also enjoying this thing
http://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-and-blue
some blown out solo electric things, some mellower stuff... all very nice.

Ooh nice, gonna check that Alan Licht set! Still need to listen to the Johnson one, but it is probably pretty close to the show I saw here (and got a recording of). Did the Pasquarosa set get recorded too? I assume so, but that is one I am interested in checking too.

Pretty interesting interview/talk with Anthony Pasqarosa via our man Mr. Dying For Bad Music:

http://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2015/07/interview-anthony-pasquarosa.html

Good insights overall, and I hadn't really read much about AP at all, so a good thing to dive into if you dig his playing. There is a good playlist embedded in the interview too.

new chris forsyth & koen holtkamp (who i am not familiar with) joint album, like the sample track a lot, v chill psych vibes

http://m.tinymixtapes.com/news/chris-forsyth-koen-holtkamp-announce-second-joint-lp-share-long-beach-idyll

Chris & Koen have another record, and Koen is in the duo Mountains that has records on Thrill Jockey (amongst other labels). I like the Mountains records I have heard OK, but seeing them live kind of killed the mood for me quite a bit (just a lame personal thing, but they talked to each other quite a bit during the set, as if they were making serious choices about the music on the fly or something, but the music did not change after they talked etc. etc.).

Odd criticism of the day: I think the lead playing on this Forsyth / Holtkamp track is really good, but I find the acoustic playing distracts from the mood being set. Sounds a little overcomposed to me, in regards to the turnarounds/ornamental parts, wish it just sat still a little more. Probably just me hah hah.

To round this confusing series of insights out, I saw Koen & Chris play live and really dug it, they went down some good roads and it was pretty engaging throughout.

tyler had mentioned that the willian tyler band/solar motel band tour needs to happen and i agree

i knew that forsyth had been recording via facebook but i assumed new solar motel (or maybe there is that too)...

as for me...well i guess i have fucked around with recording shit in my basement now for more than a year and pretty much gone through all the steps and basically this is as good as it's gonna get soundwise so i need to quit my fuckin procrastinating (disguised as gear lust, "learning recording techniques", googling about compressor plugins and shit).....this is a new version of a track i posted a reeaaaally long time ago on the old thread, my most ambient/spaced out/droney number....added a subtle synth pad throughout and obv better mics etc

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/heaven-is-real

Speaking of Ryley Walker that John Hurlburt LP he found is streaming on the Fretboard Journal site for the moment; link posted on the Tompkins Square thread cos yall should visit. Speaking of Pickathon, I forgot to mention The Weather Station's set was pretty good if jonesing for pre-/post-fusion Joni. Ditto the new album by young Joan Shelley, where the picking is mostly(?) acoustic or discreetly plugged-in (sounds like a nice warm hollow-body on the title track). She's been around and thought about it, with the end of summer gliding by. Seems more consistent in the second half, and "Subtle Love" is the perfect closer, as patterns blossom into Patty-Griffin-Sandy-Denny-Rthompsonesque autumnal allure. Sorry to mention influences/associations but they're pretty up=front, and you gotta have the chops/touch/shit together to wear 'em well, as she mostly does here.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434271578/first-listen-joan-shelley-over-and-even

yeah that's nathan salsburg playing guitar on most of the joan shelley record, really adds a nice dimension, without overshadowing shelley's major talents as a songwriter. love it.
hulburt thing is cool! "sunrise" is one of the lovelier fahey homages i've ever heard.

just listened to that john hurlburt stream, really nice stuff

listening to your tune right now, ums, very nice meditative quality happening here.

thanks! i feel like the sound quality is p good, i just held down three C octave notes on a crappy old yamaha synth through the whole thing, might end up shortening it up but i was kinda of hypnotized by playing and kept going for awhile

yeah i dig it.
you guys checked out this william tyler band set from a week or two back? holy crap:
https://soundcloud.com/williamtylermusic/william-tyler-band-8-21-15

^^ killer

Yeah UMS, I remember that tune! It is a good one, and I like the treatment. I think it is fine at the length you have it, depending on what you sequence it with (assuming this gets bookended by some other tunes). Good thing to fade into or out of.

Still need to check the W. Tyler Band set. Listened to the beginning and it sounded great.

yeah, pretty blazing.
did i report back about marisa anderson in denver last week? was totally great -- really a pleasure to hear her in person. everyone should go see her!
new tune, a medley of "house carpenter/see that my grave is kept clean" from the forthcoming split LP w/ tashi dorji sounded amazing.

Some new tunes posted to the VDSQ soundcloud page:

https://soundcloud.com/vdsq-1

Anthony Pasquarosa, Dan Melchior, and Alan Licht. Really lovely Glenn Jones tune on there too.

I've been meaning to tell you all about how wonderful Glenn was (and his wife) at our wedding, but it's been taking forever for us to get the photos.

Loved the William Tyler set too by the way. That stuff makes me want to go on a road trip or something.

Congratulations again Evan, glad that it all worked out. In my limited interactions with Glenn I concur, great guy.

Really like all these tracks. Uggh, some day probably gonna try to get a lot of these VDSQ records.

Thank you! We had "Across the Tappan Zee" as our processional and recessional. Glenn played beautifully and throughout the night and the day was gorgeous. He later told me him and his wife "were both saying how on the way home it was one of the best weddings we've ever been to." So It was really just a spectacular time. I'll post a few photos when I get them all. Maybe video too- I know the photographers were filming Glenn playing as well.

oops second sentence there kind of mangled

sounds so fun, wish wedding i went to had genius guitar players playing them... "tappan zee" is so great (and i love that bridge too, so it is perfect).
digging that alan licht VDSQ tune. kinda different from a lot of stuff on here (strummy, rather than fingerpicky!) but very nice nonetheless.

*wish weddings*

that's so awesome evan, congrats!

Thanks! He fit our vibe perfectly. Whole thing was very relaxed and beautiful.

That song in particular, "Across the Tappan Zee", is so damn good. I get it stuck in my head all the time. I mean, I go to that record all the time, probably play once every two to three weeks. Just something perfect about it to me.

So yeah Evan, so cool that you go to have Glenn make it part of the big day!

hopefully you didn't spend the reception huddled in a corner with Glenn asking for his best John Fahey stories

Yeah I mean, the whole record is his homage to his childhood home in a town next to where my mother's side grew up, which is only a few towns over from where I grew up. So I was a fan of his and the genre in general already, then that record comes out and to me it's his best personal significance aside. And it just fits my own mindset around that part of north NJ as well. Hard to explain.

So to have him play Bergen Country Farewell, Going Back To East Montgomery, Across The Tappan Zee at our wedding (and it's an important record for both of us) was just beyond special. And we got married in MA so for him to get there was just an hour drive! I'll show off one picture of the location (my Grandparent's house on an island below the Cape) when I get the photos. Just one; I won't turn it into a wedding slideshow.

No I didn't at all! Though that would have been easy I'm sure. Instead we briefly talked beforehand about some current stuff like Chuck Johnson, William Tyler, Daniel Bachmann, Nathan Bowles. He mentioned that one time Daniel and I think he said Ryley Walker showed up unannounced at his home just to tell him how big of fans they were.

speaking of xpost Nathan Salsburg:

Nathan Salsburg ‏@twosandfews 1h1 hour ago

Nbd, just some guitarist Richard Thompson singing some praises of some other guitarist Jim Elkington
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COLpQuyWcAAtuNg.jpg

Might shoulda saved that for the Thompson thread, but ain't *all* about RT, believe it or not.

re: RT

Thompson was also on last week's episode of WTF, Marc Maron's podcast. It's a pretty good conversation to be honest, aside from the fact that we're all fans of his already. The episode also features an interview with Lemmy - tune in for insights on Hawkwind and amphetamine :)

Yeah, I posted that on RT's own thread, can't let him take over all the others--Get back, RT!
Just listened to John Rebourn's The Attic Tapes, out Oct. 16. They go back at least to '62---he died before getting all the dates, but his commentary is really fluent, analyzing some of the songs, without getting pedantic, and talking about how several of them came together, incl. ones whose (probable) sources were unguessed way back when he learned 'em: who knew "Can't Keep From Cryin'" was a Blind Willie, and it's one of several familiar titles who sound really different from any version I knew.
He also talks about finding traces of the UK songster Davey Graham in various cities, ideas that lodged in the heads of musos who may well have had no reel-to-reels, or anyway didn't need one to summon the bits that JR puts together here. Mind you, he does give Graham the writer's credit for the opening tightly loose bedsit version of "Anji"(that's from the box marked "1962").
Most are like that, as he says up front, with no thought they'd ever be heard---apprentice JR, but he's already got it, and the audio's a lot better than I expected: just whoosh on the hemp carpet, and You Are There. Ditto the live tracks, where you can tell he knew somebody was listening.
He's an okay-to-good singer, maybe more the former, but we also get a couple of nice jolts from Beverly Martyn, on young Donovan's Jansch-y "Picking Up The Sunshine." JR mentions her being on the cover of a Jansch LP...need to check out more of her stuff; I only know her from the album with hubbie John. She's even better on a tight blues. Though actually most of this is pretty concise--20 tracks in 60'48"---with no lack of atmosphere.
Also a couple guest shots from the Hurdy Gurdy Man, Mac Macleod (vocals and guitar only), and the grand finale teams JR with Graham himself, on "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out": jazzy-bluesy, duh, and rawther magical. What other Graham should I check out?
Oh yeah, audio and more info here:
http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/TUG1089/
PS: speaking of Jansch, this also has an intriguing solo Renbourn version of "Courtship Blues," which Renbourn says is Jansch's first song--they hadn't met then, and the writer hadn't recorded it yet, but Renbourn heard it when Tom Paley came down from Edinburgh.
Wantin those Graham tips yall.

lots of davy graham releases i've yet to hear but...

the comp that came out on see for miles is a great place to start, picks and chooses from most of his decca albums. not sure if this has been superseded by a more recent collection or not.

favourite dg lp of mine: large as life & twice as natural. stretched out folk blues jazz raga (love the joni both sides now cover that kicks it off), cd reissue has good notes from john renbourn himself.

& if you don't want to hear him sing (i like his voice personally) the collaboration with shirley collins is a+