meg baird

I really like the 2nd record, I guess the first was more consistent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faluutFTNT8

I'd be plenty thankful for introducing me to Fraser & Debolt alone but rly it's her version of 'Waltze of the Tennis Players' that sticks with me. Haven't given the second album as much time as I should've yet, maybe I resent her having such effortless power over me, not many people around whose voice hits me like hers.

there's a new baird sisters LP on grapefruit records out now (or soon). little bit annoying that it's vinyl only though, i'm not set up for that right now, and would like to pay for mp3s or something. second meg album wasn't quite as good as the first one, but the first one definitely set a pretty high standard. one of my favorites from the 00s.

i've never really listened to her records, but i do like the espers. saw her play live uh, earlier this year? i think? and it was just okay. i don't know but i found it hard to get sucked in.

Anybody have any of the stuff from when she was still in Clock Strikes Thirteen? Is she audible on the Clientele / Clock Strikes Thirteen split?

love this from laura baird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurQCyA0rWg

yeah that's great

i guess she has a solo album coming out sometime this year -- not a lot of info about it I can find though.

Annd new song

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/meg-baird-counterfeiters

sounds great
relistening to this now: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Meg_Baird/Live_at_WFMU_on_Shrunken_Planets_July_7th_2012/

this is really lush, looking forward to the album

welp, this album does not disappoint. amazing.

Yeah, I am psyched for this. She is great.

very exciting!

btw does anyone know if Espers still exists?

i think they're basically done, though i don't know if they're completely broken up. baird is on the west coast now and i believe i read that greg weeks is a high school teacher now. and bassist chris smith is co-running the awesome paradise of bachelors label.

:(

after being initially so-so on it I came to love Espers III

yeah i feel like i didn't appreciate that band enough! anyway, the new baird has the espers vibe aplenty.

Espers II is a towering work of art to me

tyler did you ever dig on Metal Mountains?

i haven't dug too deep into them -- tower recordings related, right?

yep former members....

but yeah their 2011 album Golden Trees is otherworldly, higher recommended and if you dig Espers I think you will love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCw0GjBgki4

classically titled ILM thread
Metal Mountains is melting me

vinyl long gone but few for sale for not too bad on discogs

oh cool, so pg six is in there too? his records are kind of underrated i think.

loved that Metal Mountains album back then but in my memories that track wasn't 11+ minutes long

saw her play a lovely show in london the other day, playing with i presume the same electric guitar guy on the album, whose playing is great imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEyrIQgR4Jo

addition of that guy also allowed for a very nice rendition of espers' 'mansfield and cyclops'

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/03/09/heron-oblivion/

Really like this record

live heron oblivion show from last weekend -- massive jams. http://www.nyctaper.com/2016/05/heron-oblivion-may-28-2016-union-pool/
interestingly, it seems that meg guests on the forthcoming chris robinson brotherhood album?

saw em last night; sounded gorgeous.

The Heron Oblivion album is amazing.

it definitely delivers! hoping it's not a one-off -- there's a tune on that NYC Taper recording that isn't on the album...

i was at that show and it was really fuckin something. (chris forsyth + smb opened.) all the psych cliches about face melting and brain shredding were in full effect.

Fantastic, thanks a lot. Been surprised that i Haven't come across any live sets from them on torrent sites so far.
Was really hoping I'd find something while I waited for the lp release, & then had to hang around while I got a copy delivered since one disappeared on me.

I should of gone to the show DC saw last night. Liking the album enough

pretty folk voice over psychedelic guitar freakout seems predictable at this point in time, but they do it well

live set is fire, really makes up for the slight daintiness i sometimes rue on the album

another live set - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Heron_Oblivion/Live_at_Monty_Hall_5262016/

crosspost to the Mary Lattimore thread but MB makes this beautiful rendition: https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/track/fair-annie

the lattimore / baird LP is great.
think there is supposed to be a new Heron Oblivion record next year ...

new record is awesome. they're playing union transfer together early february (opening for steve gunn) and i am stoked

I picked up a second hand CD of Don't Weigh Down the Light. (I was already turned on to Heron Oblivion.) I'm really enjoying this. I suppose all of Baird's stuff is basically worth tracking down, right? I suspect it will be an availability thing here in Germany. Will check Discogs.

BTW, the CD is signed, which is nice.

It's all great — worth tracking own the Baird Sisters LP as well.

espers II is one that sticks with me

Weed Tree is my fave Espers but it's all good

Thanks. I've got two albums on the way - Dear Companion and the Lattimore collaboration. That may be enough for now. But I can keep an eye out..

A Meg Baird/Mega Bog collab could totally work and the names should render it inevitable. Hop on it Paradise of Bachelors.

Furling is really lovely.

think there is supposed to be a new Heron Oblivion record next year ...

still holding out hope here!

Great show tonight with her and Chris Forsyth on their short tour out here -- both good sets with Forsyth joining her at the end of hers for a couple of songs.

was great in minneapolis. doug mccombs adds adds a lot to the forstyth band.

It's taken me a while to get around to it, but the new album is, unsurprisingly, gorgeous.

it really is, feels like a classic to me.

She's always had that timeless quality but this absolutely could have been released any time in the last 50 years.

Yeah, the new one is absolutely fantastic.

Quite right

Just popping in to remind myself and others how great the new record is. 'Ashes, Ashes' is reminding me of *The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys* this evening. Damn.