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

Nice looking guitar! Think I would dig these (like the parlor-size body).

schnazzy... someday i will get a new acoustic guitar. i've had mine since 1993!
in ILX brigade breaks big news, just saw that steve gunn will be opening for wilco this summer at Red Rocks!
did not think that would be the venue I'd finally get to catch the dude at.

Woah. Red Rocks not a bad local for that at all.

That's awesome for him
I think his newer stuff will go over well with the Wilco crowd

The recording king is not spendy. Actually I think the originals were Sears catalog guitars

Oh and he and his band are SO good live I'm hoping/expecting they'll knock out the Wilco crowd there.

Wonder which version of the band he is gonna have? It is a fluid thing.

Nice guitar ums. BTW I've been listening to a heavy amount of classical guitar lately (but I'm not nerding out quite enough to start name dropping anyone). I have notable douche of '14 Kozelek to thank, but it's all due to his Admiral Fell Promises album (ENTIRELY different beast than Benji) establishing itself as my overall favorite record.

Love the idea of classical nylon string sound mingling with the Fahey style more than I've actually witnessed such a thing. I know Blackshaw played with it on Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death.

Wait that is a nylon string isn't it?

That's true- I figured the most recent line up that's been touring Way Out Weather was established for now.

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I am sure his band will be good regardless, but that quarted line-up with Meagher/Bowles/Elkington on board is definitely the one I would hope to see.

Elkington was particularly amazing to me! Very well matched to duet with Gunn. I'd hope he would be involved, too.

Bowles new record is great too since you mentioned him.

elkington is in tweedy's solo touring band, right?

Evan nope it's a steel string but the body dimensions are close to a classical and the neck is wide, somewhere between a conventional neck and a classical.

I really prefer smaller bodies, much more comfortable

Oh yeah, no doubt Bowles is ruling in many ways these days, and that record is a prime example. His recent live set here was so damn good, definitely go see him if you can. Psyched for that Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn record on the horizon too.

Yeah the Bowles record is really inspiring me to get serious about my poor, mostly neglected banjo which I DO have a ton of fun with.

yah bowles is the best

i just discovered that they make 6 string banjos that are tuned like a guitar, i was thinking of checking that out, love the sound but don't feel like learning the whole banjo tuning thing

Hah man just grab one of Metzger's 30 stringers (or whatever he has done to his custom ones). Surely he has a spare one he can loan out.

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Yeah I like the smaller body guitars for that reason, too.

Well either way my jumping off point about nylon guitar stylings stands. Would love to hear more records with that influence.

I was finding the banjo tuning hard to adapt to or experiment on, but as I got better at finger picking + experimented with other tunings it got much much more fun.

If anyone is looking for some afternoon listening, I just put up my latest Dais Queue live set. Lots of mellow prepared guitar stuff, but some guitar-as-guitar at the 17 minute mark or so. Pretty happy with it overall:

https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/dais-queue-live-1-28-2015

digging this, at about 15 mins now this has been nice workin tunes

Cool, thanks man. The "nice workin tunes" demographic is a good one for me I think.

only partially fahey folk but if anyone's in massachusetts or boston marissa nadler is playing a show on 3/7 with glenn jones and damon & naomi

Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux is now a part of Mind of Mirrors and their upcoming dates include some rad guests. New album was put out on Immune a couple days ago too.

Feb 2 - Detroit, MI - Trinosophes
Feb 4 - WFMU - The John Allen Show
Feb 5 - Brooklyn - Union Pool presented by Ad Hoc *
Feb 6 - Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda's presented by Bowerbird *
Feb 7 - Baltimore - 5th Dimension * w/ Bobby Donnie
Feb 8 - Durham - Pinhook presented by Rough Drift #
Feb 9 - Athens - The World Famous #
Feb 10 - Asheville - Mothlight #
Feb 11 - Nashville - Stone Fox #
Feb 12 - Louisville - tba #
Feb 13 - Bloomington - The Artifex Guild # w/ Tyler Damon
Feb 14 - Lafayette - The Spot #
Feb 15 - Chicago - Hideout # w / Lagartha
Feb 17 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club # presented by Acme Records
Feb 19 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill # w/ Phosphenes
Feb 20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry # w/ Steve Palmer
* w/ Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band // Horse Lords
# w/ Daniel Bachman

UMS I've always wanted one of those banjar/guitjo hybrid's, they sound great.

Evan you can always put a banjo in something like open c as well, it's really fun to play that way. After doing basic open g frailing and the like, I wound up playing it kinda like a 4 string guitar, thumbing the 4th and 2nd strings and doing single note hammers/bends with the 1st string, all the while heading up and hitting that drone string with your thumb every now and then. It's easy to do raga sounding stuff with that technique in open c. The tuning is gCGCE.

Nylon strings:
There's a guy on bandcamp who I've wanted to suggest for a bit now: Marcus Eads, he has some material written for classical guitar. His stuff is actually real nice, cleanly recorded and unhurried in approach. http://marcus-eads.bandcamp.com/album/sherburne-county-instrumentals

I also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.

Less Fahey, more flat out psych folk, but one of my old favorites, Cursillistas (now Herbcraft), always used a nylon guitar for his recordings.

Here is the early country blues artist Sylvester Weaver playing a six string banjo, recorded in 1927. He's the guy who recorded the first unaccompanied solo guitar tracks, lap style, in 1923.. huge influence on solo guitar and he's got such a wide range of playing styles. Him, his brother, and their childhood friends like BBQ Bob were all taught by Mrs. Weaver growing up in Georgia. His mother comes from the prior generation of unrecorded blues musicians, where as the Weavers and friends were of the first generation to be recorded.

"Six String Banjo Piece"
youtube.com/watch?v=GhjCi67ow3U

Before I go spouting too much nonsense :)
Having been born in KY, Sylvester is actually unrelated to the Curly/BBQ family lineage. The rest of still stands though.
I thought there were more examples of traditional six string banjo but haven't come up with anything, don't know who plays it on a current rekkid either.

I didn't know barbecue bob was taught by sylvester weaver's mum, that's wild

also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.
think this was her -- pretty nice stuff: http://www.discogs.com/Linda-Cohen-Leda/release/2345556

Marcus is great! I met him via Facebook recently, he lives in Minnesota and I hope to go see him soon, he's playing a rare show (said he hadn't played in a few years)

Nic Garcia, Kyle Fosburgh, and Matt Sowell had a show last night, all three of those guys played great

picked up Kyle's reissue of Robbie Basho - Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12 -- WOW

Thanks for the banjo suggestion, Neal! I've definitely been coming around to it more now that my finger picking is a bit better. I'll try open C, too!

Shit, I'd meant to get that Basho reissue.

it's on par with visions of the country, impossibly beautiful music

no difference between that and the Windham Hill version, right?

no bonus tracks, no...
i think those two are my fave basho...celestial. don't miss that live download EP grass top put out as well...

see maybe that's why I'm confused - was that the "preview"? or something else?

yeah, they may have said it was a preview of the art of acoustic reissue ... for some reason. whatever it is, it is awesome.

yeah they called it a "preview" but it's really not, the actual reissue is different that's the Windham Hill album

thank you, that explains my confusion.

i found a pristine copy of the OG release of that basho album for a buck last year, was pretty psyched

damn that's a score

yeah, i got visions for pretty cheap a few years ago, but it was not in good shape (weird for windham hill records in my experience!)

haha yeah i've never bought any new agey album that wasn't in pristine condition

dudes were partying too hard rockin out to basho i guess

yeah this one had seen some action

Man I love Linda Cohen! She definitely came up in the old thread and that record "Leda" is cool as hell in my opinion.

I didn't know barbecue bob was taught by sylvester weaver's mum, that's wild

Sylvester just has the same last name, and is unrelated :/ my mistake

Man I love Linda Cohen! She definitely came up in the old thread and that record "Leda" is cool as hell in my opinion.

Yeah thanks for digging that one up tyler, it's great!

Did anyone else back that kickstarter for Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho, the Basho doc? Hopefully it'll come out before summertime, was looking forward to it's release last year and then it completely fell off my radar.

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"In East Or West, I See No Christ", written by Andrew Hammond

hah! great title.

lol