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

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?

yeah Chuck was fantastic, bought the new album on vinyl from him, which sounds great, really nice jacket too (art by Dylan Aycock!)

super night! good turnout for a Monday, I felt like Me, global and Matt Sowell played pretty well together, I think global has some recordings so I'll have to review the evidence

Metzger was particularly on fire last night, did some bow-work that was insane

Thursday is the full-band Steve Gunn w/Nathan Bowles and Elkington w/Jennifer Gentle opening, big week here in Minneapolis

not familiar with Robert Pete Williams, what's the story? cool stuff

I don't know Steve Tibbetts outside of the name, will check him out

chuck was great, played some familiar and new stuff on electric and then a pretty astounding slide piece i didn't recognize... went from jack rose-y modal to fahey circa 'knoxville blues' and back again

trio was really fun, i think it came across pretty well. will post recording soonish

aaaaand paul metzger is a national treasure. that's all i've got to say about that

Whoa, nice! Sounds awesome. Hope the evidence turns out well, would love to hear it. Any evidence of the Metzger set? I am very into bowed strings and would like to hear a good take of his version of the form, if it exists (Global?).

Also wish I could see the Gunn band again, hopefully they swing near me again. I like Sukeena, but if Elkington is back that is pretty sweet. He was a great part of that live band when I saw them.

glad to hear the show went well! yeah count me in on hearing any recorded evidence ...
planning on seeing gunn + band open for wilco next week at red rocks! crazy.
robert pete williams is a kinda self-taught country blues dude "discovered" in the early 60s, put out records on takoma, arhoolie, etc. haven't heard too much, but yeah, he is very interesting and unclassifiable!

red rocks is so gorgeous, enjoy

Chuck might be my favorite of contemperary "American primitive" players, he's so composed and while a very skilled player he never seems like he a real "guitar dude" in the way that Tyler and even Bachman seem to me sometimes, everything about his music is very deliberate and thought out

Metzger, yeah, man wow he's like I guess almost the opposite, the id run free, 30 minutes straight like a tornado, if you ever have the chance to see him you MUST

red rocks is a bucket list venue for me

definitely a very cool place, though the sound can occasionally be spotty depending where you're sitting.

How many times do bands say "This is not a rebel song, this is blah blah blah" from the Red Rocks stage?

dylan spent like an hour making fun of bono when i saw him there

[i wish]

Hah hah.

other good live stuff coming up -- circuit des yeux w/ marisa anderson this summer:

Sun-Aug-09 AUSTIN, TX @ Salvage Vanguard Theater*
Mon-Aug-10 SAN ANTONIO, TX @ Paper Tiger*
Tue-Aug-11 MARFA, TX @ Hotel El Cosmico*
Wed-Aug-12 ALBUQUERQUE, NM @ Sister*
Thu-Aug-13 TUCSON, AZ @ Solar Culture*
Fri-Aug-14 PHOENIX, AZ @ Valley Bar*
Sat-Aug-15 SAN DIEGO, CA @ Seven Grand*
Sun-Aug-16 SANTA ANA, CA @ Observatory (Berserktown Festival)
Mon-Aug-17 SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ Brick & Mortar*
Wed-Aug-19 PORTLAND, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge*
Thu-Aug-20 VANCOUVER, BC @ Cobalt*
Fri-Aug-21 SEATTLE, WA @ Lo-fi Performance Gallery*
Sat-Aug-22 BOISE, ID @ MING Studios*
Mon-Aug-24 DENVER, CO @ Rhinoceropolis*
Tue-Aug-25 OMAHA, NE @ O'Leavers*
Wed-Aug-26 IOWA CITY, IA @ The Mill*
Thu-Aug-27 MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ 7th Street Entry*

don't miss it -- the full band is fun to watch
get a preview here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwxL0yipjis