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

Fack me. I deliberately tried to add that as a 'no embed.' Apologies.

Oh, the new Chris Forsyth is out? :D

it's pretty good, need some more time with it. solar motel is an all-time favorite though, not sure if he'll top that.

"High Castle Rock" was a ton of fun. It's all I've heard so far from it.

As already stated, the new Glenn Jones is great. Digging the Ilyas Ahmed + Golden Retriever = Dreamboat LP too.

(and it's from last year but I've just found out about that Seabuckthorn album, it's very nice too)

YES, loving the Dreamboat album!

this is the best thread on ilx

:)

Really like this run down of playing in an alternate tuning:

"There are guys and gals that have spent their lives playing standard tuning and never have gotten to the bottom of it. It’s an incredible mystery, and there’s just so much theory and so much you can do with it. But I have a hard time composing in standard tuning. Maybe it’s just because I kinda feel like, well it’s G chord but I don’t own this G chord — it kind of was there before me, it will be there after I’m gone. In non-standard tunings I may be hitting on the occasional G chord, but somehow I feel I own that G chord, because I got to it in such a roundabout way and had to dig my way through the underbrush and all that stuff. It’s a different experience. So putting those kind of obstacles in my path, the pieces that I compose become a way of navigating a new and unfamiliar landscape."

Ditto Glenn.

― grandavis, Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:58 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't find the quote but iirc Ackerman said something similar about open tunings, saying it's a more creative way of composing or something

A friend grew out his beard and looks identical to Robbie basho. It's very eerie..,

fleeting is so intimate and sensitive. he's gone nuts for that half capo, used on every song, refreshing to hear someone play everything tight and delicate instead of vast reverberating open tunings

Spokane River Falls has to be one of his best pieces. Too good

this is just gorgeous, keep playing it over&over because it flows so beautifully. I've never loved the banjo as much as the guitar and I've had mixed feelings about instrumental banjo before but it sounds so tender on this record and it bleeds into the guitar so gracefully. I think glenn's written better/grander/more impressive individual pieces on other records but I think this is probably the best album he's done. such a gift. I'm aware of how corny and naive it sounds but I always think it when I listen to him: there is so much humanity in his playing; there is no way a bad person could make music like this

don't want to dwell too much on the idea of a pantheon or w/e but in terms of sensitivity, he's up there with fahey & basho, and sensitivity is the key thing. there's no more inviting guitarist around at the moment, he treats his listeners so well

Just ordered it from Thrill Jockey on yellow vinyl. Eagerly anticipating next week's mail deliveries now.

"I'm aware of how corny and naive it sounds but I always think it when I listen to him: there is so much humanity in his playing; there is no way a bad person could make music like this"

Again, him and his wife were so sweet to us when he played our wedding (she came along). Just two of the nicest people I've ever met.

Got blazed and listened to Avocet tonight. Nice record, though I'm not sure I love it as much as you guys (yet?). I realize I'm probably not as intimately familiar with Jansch's solo career as some of you, but this one definitely feels like an anomaly to me, what with the chorus effects on the guitar and that one (vibe-destroying) solo piano track (I also could have done without the flutes, but that's a personal bias!). It's a record I will definitely be going back to, as there are some really nice tunes (the aforementioned "Kingfisher," "Kittiwake") and some little corners my ears need to further explore; you'll notice upthread I wasn't immediately sold on Gimmer, either, and now I'm playing it every day. This one feels like a grower, too.

― Wimmels, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:26 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As predicted, the more I listen to this, the more I enjoy it, so much so that I finally bit the bullet and bought a (very expensive) LP copy. I still think the shorter tracks on side 2 are sort of the sleeper tracks--I prefer them to the title track, which is maybe too sprawling in places?--but it's definitely been on regular rotation the past week or so.

Which just confirms my longstanding belief that you can't really make a decision about a record until you've heard it more than once. This gets harder to do every day, but I find, increasingly, that it is the records I make the most time for (even the ones I don't love immediately) that stick with me and don't get shelved after a week or two.

yep yep and yep. Multiple listens aren't the fly in the ointment, they ARE the ointment if that makes any sense.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/half-love-blind-joe-death-14187.html

This thread (I think?) got me listening to Duck Baker, who provided a gateway to a lot of stuff on the Kicking Mule label. I've found that LPs on this label can be had almost anywhere for $5-$10 apiece, including some really cool instructional ragtime / fingerstyle LPs. I always wrote Grossman off as a guy who understood Fahey's technique, but played with none of his heart or imagination. Recent listening to some of his solo work like Yazoo Basin Boogie and Acostic Music For The Body & Soul (and duos with Renbourn) have me reevaluating a bit. Also, there are a lot of guys on this label I've never heard of (Dale Miller? Leo Wijnkamp Jr? Dave Evans?). Seems like an untapped, err, market. I'm sure there are people on this thread who know far more about this label than I do. Anything I should avoid?

i think Paul Metzger has spoken highly of Duck Baker, hadn't even heard of Fahey when he originally started his banjo excursions

Lots of love for Avocet here, too. It's the space of it, all that baggy, jazzy bottom end. Danny Thompson is pretty extraordinary on it. And it might be heresy but I'm still not 100% sold on Jansch's voice, so this is perfect for me.

love the duck baker record I have (this one: http://duckbaker.com/discography/duck-baker-solo/theres-something-for-everyone-in-america/)
and yeah love that kicking mule LPs are not ridiculously priced -- i've got a couple of the grossmans and renbourns, would like to get more... them and flying fish are pretty good idicators of quality for this kinda stuff.

definitely have to get this kicking mule LP
https://cdn.discogs.com/F1drXsA-fuLoOrXkQLoX5uZqz78=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-7254308-1437256786-8399.jpeg.jpg

and yeah, i like Grossman a lot these days -- i feel like if he just had more evocative, darker cover art he'd be huge! but instead:
https://cdn.discogs.com/_OUK0oalffspgSs3Bv7Td1L8dF4=/fit-in/600x615/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2422802-1283234892.jpeg.jpg
actually i like this, but you get what I mean

there's one on kicking mule called 'hologram' by sam weis that's good... awful cover art, probably why it had apparently been sitting in the bin since it was released in the 80s. can't find much about her online, other than that she opened for basho once and eventually started making really bad rock records. i've shared some of it with kyle at grasstops!

ha, that one doesn't even appear to be on discogs ... see i like this cover too! i'd buy it if i came across it, anyway
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TCEAAOxy9eVRV195/s-l1600.jpg

yep, that's the one. all 12 string instrumentals

lol Autoharpin'

glenn's new one is really nice

yeah i think ogmor's term "inviting" really sums it up ... you pretty much want to live inside this new one

Found this Sam Weis video on youtube, from 2012, there's other vids of some singer/songwriter kind of stuff of hers too. This is newer material it seems from a 2012 album:

xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNJrPqegiA

there's a fairly entertaining live grossman lp that came out on transatlantic in the early seventies

& on the kicking mule tip will rep for both of these:

http://img.cdandlp.com/2015/05/imgL/1509344898.jpg http://www.guitarvideos.com/prodlarge/126coloradscan.jpg

Will rep for that Peter Finger record as well; it's quite nice. I'm also a big fan of a couple of Bob Hadley's records, probably "Tunes From The Well" is my fave.

yeah i just saw that peter finger record in a shop and didn't get it (heard it via ghost capital a little while ago). i should get it the next time i'm in there... Irish LP looks killer.

wondered if this might be the right place for this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxNnJLwsuM

very nice new track from Sarah Louise's forthcoming VDSQ LP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvRm1u4oVE

and have we talked about this dbh album from last year? http://threadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mood
kinda great.

Dbh is one of my favorite artists in this zone, and even pass the ogmor test iirc

https://youtu.be/ZhvFg64_Gis

:)

playlist somewhat updated:

ILM's Rolling Post-Fahey Folk Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

xpost - that estelle cover is fucking gorgeous

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYP_i0zsv8s

ogmor - it says it's on a bandcamp album called odds and ends by dbh, but it's not there, i'd bet taken down for copyright reasons - would you by chance have downloaded that? :)

is it on it? i had that album on an old laptop which is awaiting resurrection. there's also a dbh tab book in existence which covers a lot of stuff of that era. he's excellent at transcribing/arranging (idk which term is more correct) stuff for guitar, saw him play an impromptu medley of about ten neil young tracks at the launch of his first album.

"transcribing/arranging" he's doing both!

is it on it? i had that album on an old laptop which is awaiting resurrection.

according to the youtube description it was so if it ever comes back to life i would love to hear the better sound quality version

i love his sound, makes me want to switch to nylon strings

cool soundcloud find:

http://soundcloud.com/victorfuertes

Hey, look what showed up on my front porch!
http://i.imgur.com/Jxn3mhd.jpg

anybody know what Cian Nugent has been playing this recent tour? Bummed to see that NYC Taper set from earlier in March had nothing off Born With The Caul. the new album is pretty okay but nothing close to that record... i dunno how interested i'd be in going if it were the more 'songwritery' things.

Maybe "American Primitivism" is a totally fake genre invented by proficient guitarists who are actual singer-songwriter hopefuls that wanted an easy "in" so they could later transition into what they actually wanted to do all along now that they already have a contract with a label + evidence of fans.

Bachman came through Houston and played some new material. He craftily wove it in so well with his material from the Three Lobed record that it was difficult to tell when an old song ended and a new one began. It was a good set. Fact fun I learned over dinner that night: "Cosmos" is actually a part of Cian's name, though I can't remember if it's Cian Cosmos Nugent or Cian Nugent Cosmos...