New Jack Rose album? (Dec 2009: RIP Jack Rose)

just played "Dr. Ragtime" -- such great, open-hearted stuff ...

I saw him pestered by a heckler to play "Kensington Blues" over and over at an instore at the old location of The True Vine in Baltimore and eventually he played it, with great humor and force and compassion. A great musician and a life-force. As I understand it through the grapevine, the heckler was a troubled guy who died not too long ago of a drug overdose, and now Jack's dead too.

I can't believe he's dead at 38. Jeez, I'm 38.

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this is fucking awful. great musician, great guy.

http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/remembering-jack-rose/

Show at the house here in a couple hours.. I intend to be playing much Pelt/Rose in between sets
This is totally a bummer

nice long jam w/ peter walker here ...
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Peter_Walker_with_Jack_Rose/
and a radio session here
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2008/11/jack-rose-vpro-dwars-session-2007.html

NO WAY.

Just saw this... :-(

Opium music & knob creek at the Johnson estate this evening. RIP Jack. That was some awful oatmeal we ate, but you sure seemed to love it.

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Friend just texted me this...i need to get drunk. fuuuuck

All Jack Rose/Pelt playlist, all night long. :-(

jamming cathedral et chartres at top volume - fuck the neighbors...

Really really fucking depressed about this. An obsessive alchemical giant. Chatted with him (and Pelt) for hours in the parking lot of Spaceland after a post Terrastock 2 gig. Gave me a hug for releasing the Last Days Of May album.

Going to hoist a pint or three.

A phenomenal talent. Really sad about this. My wine bottle is nearing its bottom and I've played Pearls from the River and Skullfuck and Raag Manifestos and the Archive live album and onward we go...

Jesus this is ridiculous, RIP

Jack Rose really isn't in the category of musicians you are a bit scared to open a bumped thread about because you think it might tell you they're dead

shocking. rip.

Horrible news. Obv bummed that I didn't go and see him in Glasgow a cpl of week ago, now.

Oh shit, terrible news, I'm 3 years older than he was! Saw him in London 2 or 3 years ago - he got a wonderful growling tone out of his guitar but still played with subtlety and emotion, without lapsing into sentimentality. Seemed like a cool guy too, I'm quite upset about this actually. RIP

fukkers and suckkers..this was my firsat booking when i came to hudson..."Inveterate fumbler of keys,pitches and tumblers full of "brown" drinks,Michael Hurley will be at the Hudson River Theater in Hudson NY this Mon May 5th at 8pm..opening are Charlambides frontthing Tom Carter and ace outster Jack Rose of Pelt..all who train up are invited to sleep over and I will make breakfast in the morning.PS-Sorry this is not a question
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:56 (6 years ago)"

i will miss th behemeothick strangslingnsneing beauty poeretryfy related fresh fry of a glandtars strings..rip jackyboy

god, this really sucks.

Oh man, RIP ;_;

RIP Jack Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNShyQt9wUQ

the most awful news. loved pelt for ages, the solo stuff even more. didn't know him personally, but still terribly saddened by this. my heart goes out to his family & friends, to all here who apparently knew him well.

scott slimm of Archive Records posted some of his personal pics of his friend jack over at forever doomed
http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14656&start=40

shiiiit. a massive talent and from what I know (just seeing him live and through other people) seemed like a super nice guy too. jeez.

Oh fuck, this is really sad.

very sad news. i saw jack a couple years ago but i was hoping to see pelt in my lifetime

RIP

I was lucky enough to see Pelt with Jack at the Terrastock 2 show you can hear on Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky -- it was and is one of the highlights of my showgoing life, one huge long track that was utterly mesmerizing, and the recording by default just can't capture the full impact of it.

Both Pelt and, separately, Jack played at the last Terrastock, in Jack's case with the Black Twig Pickers. Weird that I'll only ever see one of them again now.

Some really nice recollections (especially from Elisa of Magik Markers/Six Organs) over at the Arthur site.
http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/05/remembering-jack-rose/

Windy (as in '& Carl') on Jack:

http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7975&Itemid=1

Link to Arthur was already posted, duh. That video Amon posted is amazing.
All hands.

Was lucky enough to see him and Pelt on a few occasions. Major bummer.

never got to see him, though he was in my neck of the woods a few months ago! ugh. was listening to Ayahuasca on the bus ride into work today. Perfect accompaniment for the arctic landscape that is Colorado at the moment.

I'm at a total loss for words. I got to know Jack a tiny bit over the last couple years. I would interview him and write about him, while he'd send me cool free stuff. Then, when the occasion would arise, I'd get to see him make brilliant music either solo or with the mighty Black Twigs. Afterward, we'd have a few beers and shoot the shit, maybe he would even need a place to crash. Just a great all-around guy and phenomenal artist-musician. Take care, Jack.

damn : (

woah the thread title changed

r.i.p. jack

Root Blog has a cool raga up that Jack had named as one of his faves: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2567

I'm definitely going to do a tribute radio show but I can't this week, too busy with finals. Next week, I hope.

I am doing one right now!

empty bell
ringing in the sky

Didn't hear about this till last night and I'm shocked. I'm incredibly sad about it and it's a huge loss for everyone who knew him. He was a really big deal to me, represented my favourite things about music and I met him at an impressionable age, a lopsided situation where he went about business as usual and it left a huge impression on me.

Five years ago Jack and Glenn Jones were the first guys my friend&I set up a gig for in Manchester. Their sets, and their warmth and enthusiasm blew away my expectations; debating Fahey sidemen&women as we drove back, going record shopping (Jack acting like a shamed addict when he couldn't resist an unknown Strawbs lp), cooking them breakfast, singing along to Blind Blake in the car. Jack knew stories about sarod players I'd never heard of and funny songs about Bill Monroe; he had the rare combination of an amazing pair of hands and an amazing pair of ears. He was wild-haired&huge, forceful but polite, w/hearty appetites and generous to a fault, making me feel like a friend the couple of times I saw him afterwards. He was like no one I'd met in my 19 years and he was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

His hollow-necked guitar (so light) was magical to me, watching him hunching over -shaking his hair out the way and coughing- dwarfing it, making it sizzle&spit was awesome and incredibly satisfying. & I'll never forget the volume the first time I saw him, making a joke of our effort to mic him, flooding the church hall (we got a great sounding venue at least). I've seen other guitarists who, yknow, play the guitar, but he could use it to play the room, to burn the acoustics into your brain (Sundogs especially). And yeah, Linden Avenue Stomp is the absolute jam, the keen of Guitar Rag swinging ten times as hard, freedom music.

Just knowing he was out there having a blast made me happy and this is really hard news to hear. I didn't make the trip over to see him on his last tour because I assumed I could catch him again soon. It's been good to read anecdotes and recollections here&elsewhere, it sounds like he went quickly and painlessly, it's obvious a lot of people loved him and it seems like he was content. It's going to be weird to hear the new album&DVD when they come out, but it's kind of nice to have one more thing to look forward to.

A slew of wonderful memories up at Terrascope:

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Jack_Rose_Obituary.htm

And a Facebook memories group went up yesterday. My contribution was to find bits from the interview I did with him for Loose Lips Sink Ships, which isn't online anywhere to my knowledge. Here's his thoughts:

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"Once something is out there, it's really no longer yours. Everybody has their own interpretations, feelings, and they're free to think or say anything they want about my music. I'm honored to be mentioned along with the Takoma masters, Glenn and Harris. Folk, American Primitive, whatever -- they're just labels."

"I always try to play from my feelings and subconscious. A couple of times I have had reference points to what the song may be about. 'Mountaintop Lament' was recorded for my friend's film about mountaintop removal in West Virginia, so I was thinking about mountains blowing up when recording it. 'Linden Ave Stomp' refers to the place where Fahey made his 1st recordings, although I don't think the song is about that. Most of the time I think my songs are about abstract feelings I have and letting my id run free."

"Scholar might be a good word to also describe what I do. I've been obsessive about pre-war American music for most of my life, so that's reflected in what I do. I always think the best music is music that turns people on to what came before. If it wasn't for the Sun City Girls, I might not have discovered the joys of Indian music and other pan-Asian indigenous musics."

"I think taking yourself seriously is bad for one's music. I hate humorless musicians because usually those folks are too wrapped up in their own egos to create good music."

"I'm always trying to do something different from the last record. I've never been interested in staying in the same place musically for too long. Although the guitar will most likely always be my instrument of choice, I'm always trying to search for something new and unknown."

such a class act.

ny times obit - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/arts/music/09rose.html?_r=2&em

'Mountaintop Lament' was recorded for my friend's film about mountaintop removal in West Virginia

been wanting to see this, it was made by a local baltimore filmmaker http://www.blackdiamondsmovie.com

Every day this sucks just a little bit more.
I encourage everyone to check out the Dr Ragtime and His Pals record on Tequila Sunrise. So beautiful.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, Byron Coley on Jack- http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/12/08/one-for-jack-by-byron-coley

He's also on the DVD Glenn Jones and Jack have coming out next year. An hour long set each and then a half hour guys-hanging-out interview thing.

not in a mainstream sense but there's a whole zone of guitar playing now that doesn't exist without Rose, a giant

Absolutely true. If only he could have seen it.

worth checking out: https://new.sound-o-mat.com/downloads.php

Very. I provided the liners via an old interview.

nice!

where do you get those liners (not seeing them in my download ...)?

Huh, odd! Drop 'em a line.

14 years.