Steve Gunn

agree with whoever said upthread that there's some 'murray street' era sonic youth in this new one

man i had that thought too, same purposeful clean noodling vibe

Yeah I could dig that

A lot of my favorite music verges on boring

My very essence verges on boredom.

I'll check it out despite not being super into that first track that was released.

oh hey it looks like he's playing sorta nearby in a couple weeks

I hear all of those things. My main issue is the songs themselves are not very interesting.

Overall or on the most recent record?

I liked the second song shared from the record much more than the first, but haven't heard the whole thing yet. I think I found the same thing generally with the last couple of records, in re my favorite songs were ones I only heard once I got to listen to the whole album. The stuff all sounded good live to me though.

The last song on Way Out Weather, "Tommy's Congo" = "It's alright ma (I'm only bleeding).

i dunno i think 'mellow' is something way different than 'boring' and i think this record is the former...

the whole thing is great

"Tommy's Congo" is otherworldly and so far a bit bummed the new album didn't veer more in that direction.

there's a little bit of that dusty otherworldly blues vibe in his cover of "Visions of Johanna" on the recent MOJO 'BoB revisited' tribute. mellow, definitely not boring

Opening for Dino Jr. thus fall! Unite the stoner generations

"tommy's congo" = song of the decade

Tommy's Congo is great. The vocal line reminds me of Dylan's "It's Alright Ma", which may be a good thing

Ah. I see I made the same observation two years ago up thread.....

yeah that's my favorite thing I've heard from him so far, I need to check out the earlier stuff. lotta good recommendations upthread, thanks y'all.

recent gunn-truscinski live tapes are pretty next level:
https://logamp.com/1463/music/tracks/20747
http://www.nyctaper.com/2018/07/gunn-truscinski-duo-july-19-2018-elsewhere/

Would love a whole album that sounds like that song.

the new album "the unseen in between" sounds quite nice. it has a relaxed sunny vibe. besides his tuneful guitar play i quite like his singing too.

this one washed over me without leaving a mark. 'way out weather' is his peak IMO

He’s starting to give me Sam Prekop vibes - laid back and very pleasant and I enjoy it all, but starts to feel indistinguishable after a few albums.

I like the new one but it's not his best. He's very tame on record. A bit wilder live, but only a bit..

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— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) October 15, 2019

I haven't listened to his "new" album since my last post ^^ in February. That's how dull it is.

Listen to it again. Its very good

I wish he could find a really awesome band to be the lead guitarist for

a hired gunn, as it were

I wish he could find a really awesome band to be the lead guitarist for

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm but I feel this way about most of these guitar journeyman types

He would definitely be fun to see let loose in a band. Gunn / Truscinski duo not really a "band" of course, but a very cool forum for straight up Gunn as guitarist action. Desert Heat was cool with Cian Nugent too, hopefully he keeps riding both sides of that equation and does keep putting out more guitar-centric stuff in between the indie-leaning trajectory of the song based stuff. I agree that for me "Way Out Weather" was my favorite batch of songs and approaches to the songs. Still listen to that record all the time. The newer ones just didn't stick as much in regards to repeat plays.

This is probably my most-played Steve Gunn thing these days, just hits a lot of my sweet spots (and I think is a little under the radar for a lot of folks): https://blacktwigpickers.bandcamp.com/album/seasonal-hire

twig pickers are so great

They are! That last track on "Seasonal Hire" is basically like a slightly more straightforward acoustic Pelt w/ additional instrumentation and Steve playing instead of Jack. I love it.

Maybe I didn't give it a proper chance but "Acoustic Unseen" is working a lot better for me than the original album

The new Gunn-Truscinski record is phenomenal.

really liked it, love the very stretched-out pieces and that it gets pretty noisy at times. wasn't steve in magik markers or am i making that up?

I didn't know he was, but it sounds like he might have been with them, at least temporarily in 2006. I found a reference in a Tiny Mix Tapes round-up of the band's 2006:

Of course, this means The Magik Markers just improved upon its old heady tricks. I don't know if she kisses her mother with them sailor lips, but Elisa sure spits some inspired post-Beat, stream-of-consciousness poetry when the moon is up and the bar lights are dimmed. Shards of feedback, drone, and fractured chords sprout from Elisa's doctored guitar. Breaking the third wall, Elisa often uses the audience to her advantage, letting them surround her and strum her guitar to heighten the sense of bedlam. Nolan keeps the band grounded, doing the rhythm-devil thing on his pimped kit. At times, Nolan threw dynamite into the fire with tape loops and pre-recorded hiss. Newly added axe-slinger Steve Gunn also threw down some meaty, dissonant guitar riffage for the Markers' summer tour.

ha, i don't think i knew that. he's not on any MM records is he?

New G-T Duo is so good. If you ordered the physical LP you'll get to read a short thing I wrote on the obi-strip. wow!

I saw that! Pretty cool. Will always take your word if you say it's good. Though if you said it sucked I'd be REALLY curious to check out that obi.

Sadly I only got the CD version, so no obi for me. Is your write up posted anywhere else?

Love this new album. Do the earlier ones sound this way too? I swear I gave one a try a while back and wasn't super into it. But now I can't remember.

xp don't think the essay is posted anywhere at the moment? don't worry, you're not missing too much ...

and yeah, this isn't a huge departure for them — a few tracks here are a little creamier than previous things, but nothing too radically different.

Gunn was on two different Magic Markers releases from 2007 according to discogs- which I’m now keen on hearing.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/steve-gunn-other-you

Might try this one.

Despite my ambivalence toward his last solo effort.

I like it. It’s not a major departure but I do like it more than the last album.

i am always rooting for gunn but man this is some soft ass shit

Haha, that sums up my thoughts on the last one. I'll give this a listen.

Yeah, I really like most of his work but the 2019 solo album left me cold and the reviews for this new one so far don't convince me it will be much different.