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

Ah!! That Grouper song is an all time favorite song ever. Beautiful. Then Cass McCombs, one of my favorites as well. Guy has good taste apparently (aka similar to mine).

i kinda wish i never would have followed ryley walker on twitter tbh i find his "ain't i a dickens? i bet you think i would like THIS but GUESS WHAT i DON'T cuz i'm CRAZY and PUNK" persona p grating"

Aw, well I didn't know he was like that!

Ah I get that, but he seems to have backed way off of that persona. He mostly just makes silly (sometimes very funny) jokes and talks up shit he likes now, as opposed to trolling folks that toe the party line. My guess is that he is actually a good dude (he is buddies with Daniel Bachman, who is a super nice guy and I imagine wouldn't hang with too many assholes) who just thinks it is fun to be a brat. I think he has mostly given up the being a brat part, but time will tell.

that AD ryley walker session is great!

think i've found walker's twitter more funny than not, but i get what you're saying... pretty interested to hear any live tapes of him and Danny Thompson that emerge.

and hey speaking of AD, I wrote up a few relevant things here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/01/04/zen-buddhist-cowboy-songs-robbie-basho-his-disciples/
for real, if you haven't checked out that richard osborn record, you should! has the kind of cover art that makes it look like it'd be collecting dust in the "local" section in your neighborhood coffeeshop, but it is pretty fantastic.

oh and hey - i've been able to check out the new glenn jones and i'll just say I don't think anyone's going to be disappointed ... the guy is a master. i know we're a week into 2016, but it's hard for me to imagine any other "american primitive" LP topping it this year.

That's a hell of an endorsement.

I have no doubts that that Glenn record will get heavy heavy rotation from me. I play the last one about every 2 weeks still as-is.

Well yeah that was going to be the case whether or not it was preemptively declared unsurpassable in its genre for 2016 :)

LOCK THREAD -- NO NEED TO DISCUSS ANY OTHER ALBUMS

And I mean that in the sense that your comment pretty much applies to my personal listening habits as well.

This is good though, now no other instrumental guitarists need to bother. No pressure!

Hah hah. I just got the Tashi Dorji/Marisa Anderson split in the mail, will report back when I get to jam it. Psyched for it!

eh i'm probably being hard on him cuz he was shitting on leo kottke on twitter once, which you know listen i get it - kill yr idols and all that - but it was a bit, um, rich i thought it was a bit rich coming from a guy who -- while extremely good and talented -- had a new album out of fairly slavish jansch/tim buckley pastiche with a title track about ~~smoking weed~~

that said i'm actually listening to primrose green right now and it's really great

but i'm sure there are those purist guitar mag scene dudes that are fun to wind up but i guess i come from it like at this point i just assume that like most ppl into this scene heard about fahey through rock music ppl namechecking him and aren't super "purist" to begin with, but i'm sure they exist

Nah man, dude was a legit brat (online at least, this ain't "real life" for some folks) trolling folks pretty hard there for a bit, but I do think he pulled it back. You were perfectly justified in being put off by it, and I wasn't too keen on that time either. As you note it is a funny stance to take when you are leaning on tradition yourself.

ha, yeah i think he just doesn't take twitter very seriously. when i talked to him he was nothing but reverent/gobsmacked about getting to meet dudes like renbourn or wizz jones...

Hah hah, yeah, in a way absurdity and getting weird on the internet is one of the only rational approach to being compared to super heavy folks. Not the ONLY approach (and not one I would take), but I get it.

Not to get all political about it but thinking Twitter/the Internet/a message board isn't "real" and is therefore your personal playground is a display of privilege, that's why it bothers me. It's the privilege of thinking/believing that people know "the real you" from the asshole/bratty persona you're projecting in a public space. Hope he's over it!

I guess some people must treat outlets like that as a place they can play a "character".

La Lechera, I agree with you. It is always a bummer to me when I see folks do this, so yeah I hope he is over it too.

i eagerly awaited my Xmas gift from my dad and it was the LP of the last Nathan Bowles lp! Which I already had, haha. So I'm going to give my other copy to a friend and keep the gifted one.

cool dad, though!

i think he just knew to look at my (not recently updated) Amazon wish list. but he knew my taste!

probably chose that one because he's an ould folkie. phil ochs and that sort of thing.

my mom bought me that albert ayler revenant box for xmas set many years ago (can't remember how she knew i wanted it) and she said the clerk at the store was like: "are you ... sure?"

That clerk deserves the stink eye. Maybe your mom likes Albert Ayler!! I'd tell that guy to eat my Holy Ghost.

"young man, i saw albert ayler at the village vanguard in 1966!!!"

Haha

lol

Grass-Tops is reconciling the situation regarding the copyright claim made on the audio material for 'Portrait of Basho as a Young Dragoon' by offering the complete compilation for free download.
Our primary objective remains to make Robbie's work available to the public. The decision to offer these recordings for free is a happy medium between producing a physical edition for sale and shelving the tracks all together. This music needs to be heard!
While we recognize the potential for other entities to make future ownership claims, we do not believe that any entity controls the Intellectual Property Rights to these recordings. Therefore, it is in the best interest of Grass-Tops and the public to simply make this material available for free. In the event that a legitimate copyright claim is brought forth, no revenue will have been procured from this release.
The limited supply of CD copies that we have on-hand (originally intended to be paired with the physical book) will now be given away for FREE at Grass-Tops events / concerts.
Enjoy this historic music and have a Happy New Year!
Download the e-book (of the same title) that goes with this release, along with all photos and documents from Northwestern University's Special Collections Library archive : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/47s0035pqggdmr4/AABHhdE50wh8KyYbEWD3XiXHa?dl=0
Produced by Kyle Fosburgh
Transferred to digital by Radiance Recordings
Restored and mastered by Joe Churchich
Sound Engineering by Radiance Recordings and Kyle Fosburgh
Cover photo by Barry Olivier (circa. 1967)

― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, December 30, 2015 5:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Finally made some time to sit down with this, but am having some trouble with everything BUT the e-book itself. I unzip the files but it unzips them to .cpgz. What the hell is a .cpgz file??

Also, does anyone have one of these (sure to become rare) 'free' CDs that Grass Tops is giving away at "Grass Top events / concerts?" Is it just the same stuff as the Young Dragoon stuff linked above?

i have one but i believe it has less tracks than the soundcloud:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/portrait-of-basho-as-a-young-dragoon-mr0004500825

if you're downloading from the soundcloud page, they just come through as .wav files, right?

"What the hell is a .cpgz file??"

It's just what happens sometimes if a file is incomplete or corrupted somehow. There are some ways to get around the infinite loop of unzipping that are a google away. Solutions depend on what kind of computer you have I believe.

Hey, new Dave Pajo tunes:

http://music.davidpajo.com/album/skateboarding-in-pine-ridge

Apparently for a film. Really pretty so far, nice to know he is still playing.

nice!
was just reading this thing about VDSQ - http://observer.com/2016/01/an-all-acoustic-guitar-record-label-lifts-americana-to-new-heights/
might've been mentioned but for 2016: "Recordings by Jim O’Rourke, Brit folker Michael Chapman and Asheville, N.C-via-Bhutan six-stringer Tashi Dorji are already in the pipeline."

also funny:

“Jimmy Page is my dream project. If anyone knows how to get in touch with him, please let him know that VDSQ is ready to work with him on an acoustic, instrumental project. We’ll make sure it’s among the best records he’s ever made.”

would buy.

that latest track they shared wasn't really my bag but rangda posted a date here in MPLS for early March. seems they're touring, although I cant find an official announcement

oh wait, here we go:

3/4/16Brooklyn, NY
3/5/16Cambridge, MA
3/6/16Easthampton, MA
3/7/16Montreal, Canada
3/8/16Toronto, Canada
3/9/16Detroit, MI
3/10/16– 3/12/16Chicago, IL
3/10/16Kalamazoo, MI
3/13/16Minneapolis, MN
3/15/16Bloomington, IN
3/16/16Columbus, OH
3/17/16Pittsburgh, PA
3/19/16Philadelphia, PA

:'(

have a couple friends in denver... you all don't get a ton of shows, do you? i suppose it's kind of a hike for a lot of bands. unless it's string cheese incident or lotus or something

could be very well wrong but it just seems like an odd mix of acts make their way through

Sorry, who's touring?

rangda!
yeah, colorado is easy to skip... but despite all my complaining, i'm sure that if i lived in a place where a bunch of these acts came through regularly i'd end up skipping stuff.

yeah. i missed crystalline roses recently and dustin wong awhile back, even though it was within easy walking distance. and chris forsyth and co once. and marisa anderson + circuit des yeux. ooops.

it's Rangda, Evan

i did get to see that marisa anderson + circuit des yeux tour, it was great. there were probably 12 people there.

Oh!! xp

here's a show i'd like to see ...
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12469415_893514017393405_3971907662249621551_o.jpg

rangda!
they are so good live.

i probably average 1 show/week at the end of the year, and i am always missing something. it costs money to go to shows! the entertainment dollar can only stretch so far. most things i go to are in the $0-$15 range, which i think is reasonable. once you start talking $20 and above i will start to really consider whether i care that much. sometimes yes, usually no.

yeah at this point i probably average a show a month. i turn 37 tomorrow, gettin so old, hard to find the motivation sometimes.

please i am older than you are

Happy almost birthday!