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

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...

New material includes some killer slow dirges; with pauses so long that the audience would sometimes think the song ended. Sounds similar in it's tone to the Three Lobed stuff.

Had no idea Gunn's new one is going to be on Matador.. June 3rd!

joanna newsom was playing this before she came on stage for her show in Dublin in Olympia

https://soundcloud.com/paradise-of-bachelors/james-elkington-nathan-2

she also played the sandy bull version of carmina burana before one of her previous shows here

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

Is this the only Olivia Chaney reference on ILM? I saw her twice at Big Ears last week, and she was great. Beautiful voice, nice songs, and a great, fluid guitarist and pianist (and harmonium player). The album isn't as transfixing as the live show, but it's very good.

http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/567649-tashi-dorji-shane-parish-expecting

this is lovely

saw Ryley Walker at an in-store before his date opening up for the band Deer Tick (which was sold out anyway)...so I know I was kinda down on him but he seemed more just goofy and amiable live...also he kept asking if anyone knew of anything going on that night which it occured to me (also after seeing William Tyler's new album trailer) that touring the whole country with a guitar and just yourself might make a person kinda loopy after awhile.

in any case, he played wonderfully, was a small but attentive crowd of about 20...got good video of two songs (both I think unreleased?) one a very American Primitive instrumental another a vocals song with some really great playing that makes you imagine what his last album would sound like stripped down...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5_-hffFrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkpC8J7y38

Vocal track there sounds almost exactly like Steve Gunn to me. Love the guitar playing. I really hope I can get somewhere near that level myself, someday.

I say the more performers trying to sound like Michael Chapman the better.

These are lovely - thanks for sharing. I think he's good, but I can't help thinking once Walker's shed all his influences, he'll be brilliant. I hope so.

Just listening to Chuck Johnson's Velvet Arc now. 'Anamet' is gorgeous (and very Tyler in its scope).

new glenn jones sesh : http://folkadelphia.bandcamp.com/album/glenn-jones-folkadelphia-session-3-6-2016

and some samples of the upcoming vdsq releases: https://soundcloud.com/vdsq-1

that vocals song is also in band format on this- it's good:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/10/ryley-walker-october-9-2015-rough-trade-nyc-tompkins-square-10th-anniversary/

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/15/474208743/songs-we-love-sarah-louise-floating-rhododendron?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20160415

:)