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

yeah just checked that carter/thornton/corsano gig out, totally killer. need to dig into more of carter thornton stuff -- some dorji-like moves, but some more straightahead sounds too.

Trying to set up a show for him here, but he wanted to do Dec. 27 or 28, which is a tough time for a small town. Hoping to get him here in the Summer though, he is great.

But yeah, that trio set is like 100% in my wheelhouse. I AM the demographic for that shit hah hah.

on twitter, carter helpfully pointed out the "Killer sneeze solo about halfway into the trio set"

incoming! new glenn jones! http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/12/10/459072516/vikings-choice-glenn-jones-flower-turned-inside-out

Hah hah, was just about to post that, such good news!

if anyone happens by amoeba in hollywood and needs Glenn Jones' "My Garden State" LP on vinyl, there's a relatively cheap used one filed in the soul section with the other Glenn Jones

I have listened to "My Garden State" more than any other record that has come out this decade. You should buy it and give it as a gift to someone, it is a real deal soul stirrer, no doubt.

new track is unsurprisingly lovely
also lol that gotrich's column is called "Viking's Choice"

Oh man, the tune was already working for me to say the least, and then the outro came along and took it to a whole other level. He is a master.

Beautiful!

Hah hah, I have listened to this like 5 times in a row.

has glenn ever written a bad song?

btw i got a loop pedal that works with microphones so you can do loops of acoustic guitar

i can't use it for shit, so i was trying something and everything didn't quite match up and was a touch off beat but then i started to like, and then did a couple effected solo improvs over it. anyway kinda more "out there" for me i guess

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/lost-in-queensbridge

Sounds cool UMS, I particularly like the soloing. Nice work, the out-of-sync-ness didn't bother me at all.

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a new glenn jones is always a treat but this is just gorgeous

there's always a beautiful calm about his playing but this slack-keyish sound suits him so well and the coda just sends it over the top into pure oceanic bliss

Yep, exactly. The outro/coda is just an amazing touch. REALLY hope I get to see him live next year (and that tune in particular I would love to see in person). Maybe I will campaign with him directly!

little bit of pr blurb from thrill jockey:
Fleeting was recorded in a house on the banks of the Rancocas Creek in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Jones and his recording engineer Laura Baird made no attempts to soundproof their environment, instead incorporating the sounds of crickets and birds into the recordings.

Haven't posted one of these in a while, but gonna throw up a recent live set of my duo Grand Banks. Takes a bit to get going, but some actual guitar playing in there here and there (between the prepared guitar and more abstract passages). Pretty into this one though, but I am of course biased:

https://grand-banks.bandcamp.com/track/grand-bands-live-12-05-2015

Man, sure wish I could have that Glenn Jones record for Christmas i.e. right now. Would be very useful.

yeah that preview track is fantastic, pretty much perfect.

Yeah man, I like how it just jumps in with an upbeat tempo right away, no long intro or anything. Just an instant mood-enhancer.

totally.
saw joan shelley + nathan salsburg tape an etown radio show last night -- so good. can say without a doubt that their concert tomorrow will be the greatest gig ever played in my house. as i told davis, there's still time to book a flight out to colorado.

Hah hah, can you send the Aquarium Drunkard jet?

can you periscope it?

getting into this grand banks, like the twinkly sounds so far, is that prepared guitar or another instrument?

Oh cool man. Twinkly sounds at the beginning are a music box played into the pickups of my guitar.

can you periscope it?
i've never persicoped anything before ... you do it with ... a phone?
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130203191446/simpsons/images/d/d9/500px-abraham_simpson.png

yeah, i've only used it once when greg fox had a drum cam live from portugal or something and i'm pretty sure he used his phone. i used mine to tune in. when the streaming worked, it was really cool!

you can log in through a twitter account, i think it's actually pretty easy? honestly the whole idea of periscope kinda makes me sick because i always imagine the worst, but i couldn't pass up a drum cam from portugal at no extra charge to me.

How did it go?

Amazing! Great turnout, great sounds ... Think they actually made a pretty decent amount of money too. Both Joan & Nathan were super nice.

cool must've been so cool so them in such a small setting

this was the scene:
https://40.media.tumblr.com/64489ac3b3ae51c240e4bd21547ca214/tumblr_nzcsrweV0T1qzy30io1_1280.jpg

Oh man, that looks great! Good job man, glad that it went well all around.

yeah, even the kids behaved for the most part! that was the part that was stressing me out the most ... but even the ones who didn't want to sit still for it were mellow in the other room (until the music was over, then they went nuts).

mmm snacks

so many snacks

Hah hah, we had snacks at our Grand Banks show, it was certainly appreciated (ours did not look as good as yours do though!). A couple of kids too, but not as many as you had. It is always more stressful to put on a show than attend one, but very gratifying when it ends up going well.

here's a pic a friend sent of my dog attempting to get a belly rub from salsburg mid-show
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWJ-FHFUkAAaLNI.jpg

IKEA Expedit shelves are def in the hall of fame

most influential shelves of all time

Hah hah, that is great! Man, my dog would be doing the same thing, or just sitting and staring at Nathan with a look that says "I am here, right here. Still here ...."

yeah, hard to tell what's going through his head except "holy shit there are kids dropping food everywhere and how many of these people want to pet me?"

"Voice of the Golden Retriever"

what do people's end of year lists look like here?

steve gunn's new one was okay. as is joan shelley's.

hmmm... i mostly listened to things not released this year. as far as this 'genre'... nathan bowles? i think that was last fall though. dbh has a new one that is good. that abba gargando on sahelsounds is a keeper. daniel bachman "River" is quite good even if the first track kind of overshadows everything else on it.

this was probably my favorite non-2015 discovery though:

https://___.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxvBSxuLFU (fill in the www)

oops, should have posted this... that's a good one but this is probably a better intro, the first half of the first track on the album

https://xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9TPEPssiM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitares_D%C3%A9rive

holy moly guitares derive sounds amazing, what a find!

this is like the lost platonic ideal of airy, pulsing layered guitar lines; a previously unknown ancestor for the likes of electric counterpoint & sung tongs era animal collective

looks like it might be a little tricky to get hold of but it's too lush to pass on

very nice, reminds me of some League Of Crafty Guitarists moments