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

ya i found it from marcus

ah ok, knew it looked familiar! dude has his ear to the ground...
wsa just checking out this forthcoming thing he has. don't think this will actually be the cover but lol.
https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tueByzdAC4-CxncOAu27fiFeIZ4v79FcbKklvPodRt0OL2zTImKlpPeF7e4uRDVQx3p_tI9Hmf-2o4okmK6Sc56d6UYXxFXGFrbWZCgMHy6zId96oz39i0NSiUdeNxyIjmIFaIz0pNmfy1ndrJ93TA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://dyingforbadmusic.com/img/cmsimage.php/1024x800/81d8eac0584c1cde0c339fd097287bc3.jpg

Yeah man, Marcus rules. Have trouble keeping up, but try to check out what he is throwing as much as I can.

you doing another release with him, global?

not on this upcoming batch, maybe in the future! just taking my time right now to figure out what to do in coming up with new stuff and trying to let things happen naturally

some of the tracks/sounds on 'unblinking sun' were like three or four years old so i guess i like to let things germinate

That Chris Rainier is really nice. Thanks for posting it here, saw it before but just forgot to check it.

As far as letting things germinate, I have been making tracks out of recordings that are like 5-10 years old recently. It is one way to do things hah hah.

I'm sure lots of us here are follow Steve Lowenthal on Facebook, but if you don't or happened to miss this, it's a good one!

The Library of Congress asked me to write an essay about John Fahey's debut album. My biography on John, Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist, came out a year ago and I'm thankful for all the support it received. I imagine this will be the last time I post about it but if you haven't picked up a copy yet, the book is on shelves. And Fahey is on the shelf, part of the canon of great 20th Century American Music, where he belongs. My work here is done. You can read the essay for the LOC below.

http://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Fahey.pdf

nice!

4th week of new job starting today i've been out of touch with thread, gotta catch up

been messing around with an electric guitar....be curious how you guys think this sounds because i sold out to the dark arts of AMP MODELING PLUGINS :/

feels dirty but this stuff seems to have come a hell of a long way since the bad old days of those early Line6 Pods back in the 90s

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/in-miniature

new chuck johnson song!

http://adhoc.fm/post/chuck-johnson-deer-and-snake/

i can't remember if i posted marcus eads on here before, but his soundcloud is great

https://soundcloud.com/marcus_eads

live peter walker thing via third man. thank u jack white.
http://thirdmanstore.com/featured/peter-walker-live-at-third-man-records-12-vinyl
also, a quick report on 2015 thus far, guitar soli-wise: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/120049972917/guitar-soli-roundup-2015-so-far-its-been-an
so much good stuff!

nice! Third Man sponsored a William Tyler show here in Mpls I wasn't able to attend (it was a "mixer" for a literary/small book press conference) but that's cool if Jack can throw some of that weight behind the scene

got a VERY EXCITING SHOW I've organized in Minneapolis and I really couldn't be more excited about going to and also playing:

http://first-avenue.com/event/2015/07/metzger-johnson-PSHtrio

PAUL METZGER, CHUCK JOHNSON, and PALMER/SOWELL/HELGESON TRIO
Monday, July 6, 2015 at 7:30pm

me, global, and Matt Sowell are going to be doing a three-guitar improv set before Chuck and Paul

could not be more excited to see Chuck

(interestingly, in planning this he informed me he's only going to be playing electric!)

Wow UMS, heavy bill! Wish I could make that. Try to get someone there to tape it.

yeah if I get ambitious i might try to, but that would involve setting up my laptop etc at the venue

Finally got to see Tashi Dorji live last night, and it was A+ good. He moved through most of his "modes", beginning with a long electric-looped-gamelanish thing, switching to an acoustic nylon string afterwards and playing a really cool and wild passage (at which he retuned strings liberally while continuing to play and still made every note seem "intentional"), then finishing with a really beautiful and fairly simple harmonic-laden melodic come-down. Wonderful stuff, can't recommend seeing him live enough, once he got going it was really cool to see him work through stuff in real-time.

that's exciting i would love to see him

saw global last night we practiced for our improv/jam trio w/matt sowell from philly/mpls coming together pretty well

btw for Spotify folks, the RSD reissue of the first William Tyler album is up now

Nice, that show sounds so cool. You guys covering Molly Hatchet or Skynyrd?

was riffing on 'Dreams I'll Never See' in our DADGAD bit

Hah nice. Three guitars to rule them all.

Grand Banks is playing our first out of town gig in years in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the Farn House. If anyone knows folks in Blacksburg tell them to head out! Also playing a very cool show in Front Royal, Virginia, tomorrow at an outdoor spot with a swimming lake and a handmade wood-fired pizza oven. Definitely my speed these days. If for some reason any of you folks know someone in that neck of the woods that is into that kinda thing, hit me up.

aw man, good luck, wish I was there!

Thanks! Should be a cool couple of shows, hopefully.

hey all - this album isn't totally core ILX brigade stuff but the new Olivia Chaney album - The Longest River is out and boy is it gorgeous, like a new Sandy Denny, and plenty of really great fingerpicking on it

Nice man, will try to check that out.

Just wanna say that the Grand Banks shows were generally a total blast, though the Front Royal set was a rain soaked one and thus was cut a little short.

Really excited to say that in Blacksburg Nathan Bowles sat in for the whole set on banjo (and my buddy Adam Busch played with us as well). Was a very cool group improv with Nathan playing banjo throughout. Lots of extended techniques/moves (bowing, slide drones, scraping etc.) and a very good fit with what we get up to overall, total blast and pleasure to get to play with him. Wish I got to play with other folks more often.

wow that's great you got to play with him! i would have been kinda starstruck

He is a nice guy! Also, I am lucky in that I get to see him pretty regularly. If I had to play any "traditional" stuff with him, or try to hold down tunes etc., it would be a whole different ball game, but doing weirdo imrpov/drone/whatever is another beast altogether. Still, very cool that he was into playing for sure, definitely a highlight for me in regards to folks I have gotten to play over the years.

"play with" that is. Sure wish I could edit stuff sometimes.

new james elkington/nathan salsburg record coming out on paradise of bachelors in september. includes smiths and duke ellington covers, of all things!

elkington seems to be on every other record i'm listening to these days.

I was very impressed with his playing in Steve Gunn's touring band

Elkington is great, and added bonus that he was a supremely nice guy. So glad I got to see that Gunn tour while he was in the band.

praise from the master -
richard thompson: Jim [Elkington] was fantastic. He was sympathetic. He was so fast at figuring out the style of songs. He could imitate me after about 10 seconds.

Tweedy: I don't think that's an accident [laughs].

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/richard-thompson-and-jeff-tweedy-on-working-together-we-dont-talk-20150610#ixzz3eBPbebVt

Hah hah cool, guess I will have to read that.

feel like even the most skilled guitarists would feel slightly terrified at having to play in front of thompson.

Elkington is playing with Eleventh Dream Day now as well so I figure that means the new record that's coming out is going to be guitar overload.

He's a good drummer too.

Oh that's awesome. Now I can't wait to check that one out.

Super excited for new Elkington/Salsburg!

So, quick off topic question: where does Steve Tibbetts fit in this scene? Or does he even belong here?

Got my dl for the new Chuck Johnson LP on Scissor Tail, which I assume will ship this week. Sounding terrific so far...

shd i go see chuck johnson on tuesday? it's free, i think.

Yeah! I've seen him two or three times and he's always great. If you do go, report back - I may go see him next month when he comes here. Wonder if he'll be solo or rolling with a band.

someone remind me! i have a tendency to go home from work and then forget i was supposed to go out again :)

I wanted to drop a quick reminder that the ILX Rolling Post-Fahey Thread 2015 Spotify playlist is open to posting and could use regular updating with anything you'd like to make sure gets into the collective hivemind; lack of genre expertise (and this thread's extremely busy posting schedule) means I'm not especially well suited to adding myself. Nonetheless, I'll be conglomerating all the lists into one gargantu-playlist for zeitgeist surfers so anything anybody things is completely unmissable, please put 'er in the pile!

ILX Rolling Folk and Post-Folk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

quite like this six-year-old felica atkinson track I just stumbled onto with david daniell playing around in opening tunings in a v faheyish expansive fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-q7kLgXmWQ

Yeah that is nice Ogmor, thanks! Like those little clusters that Daniel hits at the end of some of the phrases.

My first listen, now in progress: Robert Pete Williams, 1970, sounding not that much like anyone else (eventually, occasionally, something I associate with Mali, little bit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXh3rblERWI

RPW basically sounds like no-one else

Yoah UMS and Global, how was the Metzger + C. Johnson + power trio extraordinaire show? Chuck is coming here later this month, definitely psyched to go if I don't have to go out of town, but curious what he got up to. He's playing electric, right?

"Yoah": not sure where that came from. I have a really bad cold right now, thoughts are not very clear ....

Mix of "yo" and "whoah" I guess?