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

Really nice piece by our man Tyler here:

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/09/13/spirit-in-the-house-jack-roses-enduring-legacy/

Sure would like to imagine all of those choice alternate versions of tunes that Jason Meagher is sitting on may someday see the light ....

thanks dude! was pretty easy -- these musicians also happen to be solid writers.
meagher mentioned that there's been talk of pulling together some Jack Rose odds-n-ends (possibly including outtakes) into a comp sometime in the not so distant future. which would be cool!

oh and hey, as a little bonus, check out this great Jack Rose mix of 20s/30s folk/jazz/blues: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/150357336032/spirit-in-the-house-jack-roses-enduring-legacy

Whoa, thanks! I sure hope Meagher and co. pull that off down the line, seems like a very worthy cause.

can't wait to read that!

also the new Daniel Lanois album is fucking amazing wooooow

does anyone konw who Rocco DeLuca is besides a mob boss in a bad movie?

Bachman/Toth set now up:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2016/09/bachman-toth-band-september-9-2016-three-lobedwxdu-day-show-kings-raleigh-nc/

Psyched to revisit this, was one of the only things I caught in real time but man that was a crazy day and I was not ready for it hah hah. Now know that Ian McColm was on drums! Great dude and great musician (he has a duo tape with Daniel that came up at one point, a really cool guitar/drums set and different side of Daniel's playing, a very cool tape if you can track it down imo).

Marc Masters for bandcamp. Similar approach to Tyler but some different folks weighing (along with some of the same). Nice way to revisit this stuff though:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/09/16/the-blooms-not-off-jack-rose-in-remembrance-and-retrospect/

Some really good stories in both of these! A joy to read imo.

Essentially living in "Sundogs" today. So damn good.

Just listening now. Blimey - a full on string-scraping droneathon. This stuff is shamanic. Making me want to dig out my Pelt records.

Many good reasons to pull out Pelt recordings, but yeah, I love this stuff and what Jack did in Pelt (obviously).

Not to detract form the Jack reissues (which are the most welcome reissues of the year) but I'm surprised there's not more talk about this new Imaginational Anthem comp (discussed some upthread). It's great.

yeah it really is a blast -- i'd be surprised if anyone on this thread didn't love it. wrote a quick thing about it here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/09/15/imaginational-anthem-vol-8-the-private-press/

just put it on about five minutes ago for my first listen! it is great- so surprising that i've literally never heard of any of these people, you'd think the well would have been tapped out by now

totally. speaking of which, this isn't bad either: https://dyingforbadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-to-leave-behind

i still suspect some hijinks at play there =)

haha, do you think? or do you *know*? is it marcus and pasquarosa pulling a fast one?

i don't know, but it'd be pretty funny if it was!

they wouldn't dare ... oh wait ...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Blind_Joe_Death_1959.jpg/220px-Blind_Joe_Death_1959.jpg

full circle, ha.

i suppose i envisioned these tracks on IA8 to be more rough around the edges, it's surprising how fully-formed a lot (all?) of the tracks are. some have a little tinny sounding production but i suspect a lot of these players had music careers in something other than soli guitar? like these might have been interludes on a guy's vocal album or something. or else i'm underestimating the extent of the private press movement and fahey's influence.

the gary salzman track is by far the standout after first runthrough

Another one! This would probably seem like overkill for most other people, but the fact is people were talking this way about Jack even when he was alive. Nice to see so many heartfelt remembrances here

heh, yeah, it does seem like overkill ... and then i go and read it and love every word.

IA8 is really amazing

like i know people have....mixed reactions to that dude i guess...but man Tompkin's Square has found and released so much amazing guitar music both old and new...like I'd say at least 80% of ppl I feel like are "major" players in the scene now have been featured on IAs and this one is a wealth of old stuff that's great...His taste and ear for this stuff is impeccable.

Agreed. This latest volume is my favorite so far. My current favorite is the Lee Murdock tune, which I haven't seen many people singling out. I'm a sucker for a great melody, I guess!

that one sounded good on a crisp ride to work this morning!

yeahhh, that one has a nice George Cromarty feel to it. so pretty.
i'm going to have to bug klausman about hearing complete LPs of some of these players ...
looks like you can get CDs from Murdock himself: http://leemurdock.com/featured-work/where-the-pinery-narrows/
http://leemurdock.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lee-murdock-where-the-pinery-narrows.jpg

and on the other side of things ... this tashi dorji / tyler damon duo is sounding awesome: https://soundcloud.com/familyvineyard/tashi-dorji-tyler-damon-both-will-escape

lee murdock seems nice :)

just a guy writing guitar instrumentals about old boats and lakes

This Spotify playlist = my favourite music today

i haven't actually seen that- link?

https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0HXEGPLEFmCb2ZrJk1e9ON

And on that note; the playlist is updated for the month of September.

found this while building; it's great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AU6y8N_Unk

I need to get some of his stuff. His track on the new IA comp has quickly become my favorite on there.

I find that I increasingly enjoy the more melodic side of guitar soli, the guys who could really write. That's why I love Crandell, and the early de Grassi LPs: the compositions. Kinda tired of ragas and blues, and alternating thumb, and Travis picking. Wanna hear more stoned impressionism-type stuff! What else is in this vein that I may not be aware of?

I should probably try again with Cromarty. People who like this sort of thing love him, but I've always found him a bit too stately or something. I dunno. I'm probably too picky.

haven't had much luck recording lately, i went through this whole phase with strictly acoustic playing where i was listening to glenn jones and kind of getting depressed like his compositions and playing are so perfect but perfectly at ease with themselves and everything he does just feels like he's so comfortable in his own skin as a player like why bother if you're not as good as he is?

i dunno

anyway this came together really quickly, i wrote this thing then when i put this digital delay plugin preset on it it seemed to just come alive, then i added some analog synth to it, anyway i'm pretty excited about this one at the moment

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/oceanic

sounds awesome

yeah i like this! almost moving into a dustin wong-y territory ...

nice recording of a recent william tyler band set here: http://sweetblahg.tumblr.com/post/150968314573/william-tyler-band-constellation-2016

Imo "Why bother" mentality is toxic. If you've got something to say/play, you gotta say/play it. Censorship sucks :)

thank yall - la lechera i know yr right, it's a bad frame of mind to go into hard not to sometimes

I find that I increasingly enjoy the more melodic side of guitar soli, the guys who could really write. That's why I love Crandell, and the early de Grassi LPs: the compositions. Kinda tired of ragas and blues, and alternating thumb, and Travis picking. Wanna hear more stoned impressionism-type stuff! What else is in this vein that I may not be aware of?
― Wimmels, Sunday, September 25, 2016 2:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he did a fair amount of blues stuff but i think peter lang is underrated in this regard, and also he apparently came to solo guitar before ever being discovered by fahey

The only Lang I know is that one album everyone has with Fahey and Kottke. His brother's track on that Numero comp a few years back was excellent too. What's good?

His Yakima debut The Thing At the Bedroom Window is up there with any Fahey or Kottke for me

yeah he has some jams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4YOVrhj90

also ogmor should curate an imaginational anthem comp

yeah, i was thinking a good IA comp would be focused on the international side of things (though maybe that's getting too far afield from the imaginational mission statement). but either way, exploring the volk guitarist world would be a cool comp for sure.

oops thing at nursery room window! xpost

ogmor IA would be sweet

yeah lang has some more intricately composed, melodic things that i love -- this one is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CteLJ5XmmZI
has a total of 19 views of YouTube! let's get it to 25, people.

lang like kottke unfortunately later on felt like he needed to try singing, which isn't necessarily bad but never more than mediocre trad folk