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

congrats! That's one of the best ones, too. Originals have become harder and harder to come by.

ah, I'm not much of a record fetishist but that's probably my favourite Fahey and I am v jealous. the liner notes to those classic takoma albums are wonderful too, bet it smells good

yeahhh that one is the best. i saw some 60s fahey at a shop a little while ago, but it was way too much $$$$ for me.

Yeah, I don't wanna be that guy (and I am not a collector at all for the most part) but I was psyched at the price. The cover is beat up but the LP plays fine. Really the booklet is worth it to me alone. I love it and the LP.

I found transfiguration of blind joe death in an antique shop some years back! Pretty sure I got it for a great price however it was missing the book insert.

Let me tell everyone is this thread: John Fahey is so great! I was just listening to Fare Forward Voyagers while driving through Colorado. Unbelievably good.

everyone IN this thread, haw

Yellow Princess going up the middle of Arizona last week for me! Fitting.

almost done with work, gonna go play some old Fahey in solidarity

days gone by is def up there in the fahey canon

Excited for this (see contributors):

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-29/?utm_source=Paradise+of+Bachelors+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fafafafd5b-PoB_29_announcement_PoB_27_release_10_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_eb9340aa87-fafafafd5b-86941069&mc_cid=fafafafd5b&mc_eid=1b13e9750d

Playlist has been updated; for those what are looking for hiking/driving tunes, you could do much worse.
130 tracks, about 13 hours.

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

:)

my wife bought me one of the jack rose reissues, excited to listen tonight

Nice! Still gotta get some of those. It is the right time of year for me for this kind of music.

checking out one of those fahey records no one ever talks about - rain forests, oceans & other themes....and how have we never discussed the fact that he covered "layla" by derek & the dominos???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThx4sjpp6s

one of his more inexplicable moves and that's saying a lot

http://www.johnfahey.com/pages/lg2.html
JF: Talk about ambition, Chutzpah - that’s us.

the main part of the song...well layla that riff is so distinctive it's pretty hard to put your stamp on it, it's just like ok yr playing layla, but i think the more stately coda adapts to fahey pretty well, i can hear what he heard in that

Hah hah. Wow. When I am old and really crotchety maybe I will finally deliver on my (somewhat in progress) guitar soli renderings of Drive Like Jehu tunes. What would be my version of a "Layla" to throw in there though? Like, "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction or something?

lol, at that layla; it's quite lovely tho!

Daniel Bachman's next album to feature his bold re-imagining of DMB's "Crash"

Hah hah, rough. There is a tentative Virginia connection there though ....

Hey, does anyone know how to get ahold of any of the tab songbooks advertised on almost all the Kicking Mule releases? You'd think they'd be everywhere, given how ubiquitous the actual LPs are. I wish they'd just included them with the records to begin with! There are a handful I'd love to have. I guess they were mailorder only?

Speaking of Kicking Mule, I've really grown to love this record (and I say this as an on-the-record Renbourn agnostic)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51r-mIyT0hL.jpg

I think Rainforests is my favourite 80s Fahey (really Fahey & Robb, & discounting God, Time & Causality on the basis it was recorded in 77) and the closest thing to a conventionally chill Fahey album with a v south american flavour. realised recently that 'atlantic high', originally called wm. f buckley, is surely a reference to when buckley sailed out to international waters in his yacht so that he could try marijuana 'legally'. Fahey was the best at titles. really like his ocean waves cover too, has a bit of that intense tenderness which was rarer in that mid-70s-80s period. layla shows that defiant determination to Faheyize something normcore, a bit like when he plays california dreamin on requia, only he doesn't need a chorus of seals to help him

i mean, the buckley joke only works bc he renamed it, you need both titles together. can't decide if that's deliberate and v clever or if he was so inspired by the idea of buckley stoned on his yacht in the middle of the ocean that he wrote a song about it and it was a title just for him

yeah i think it's a nice album, almost feel like he's trying in his own way to take some of bola sete into his work

xpost - have that renbourn/grossman album very nice -- mine had full booklet of guitar tablature for all the songs!

has this been discussed?

https://tape-ty.bandcamp.com/album/face-to-face-against-american-primitivism-in-eastern-europe-vol-1

lol richard bishop
https://www.facebook.com/bull.lore/videos/vb.100007025321961/1839318852978941

lol devendra

xpost - rushomancy - hadn't seen that but see that Dying for Bad Music is involved so I'm sure it's great!

Bummed nobody else wanted to be excited with me about the new Michael Chapman! It's basically Steve Gunn + band backing him.

Oh you know what the link I posted didn't actually have his name in it. I could have been more descriptive then.

Oh, sorry Evan. That does look cool, will definitely check it out!

No worries- it really is intriguing to hear about a new Chapman with a band after how many years

Totally ooks promising, as Gunn+Elkington+Chapman can't really be a bad thing I am imagining.

"looks" that is

+Bowles!

yeah, looks cool. that Natch session from a little while back has a lot of the same dudes (no Bridget St. John, though!)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Michael_Chapman__The_Woodpiles/

Oh, I wasn't aware of that!

Hah hah, indeed (forgot Bridget was supposed to be a part of this too, which is cool). Meagher's recordings always sound great too, so it should be a winner all around.

that whole series is one of the better Free Things On The Internet http://freemusicarchive.org/label/NATCH/

oh and hey I recommend this record to this thread! http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/10/26/dylan-golden-aycock-church-of-level-track/

speaking of wimmel's (i think?) post about people who can really *play*, i thought this should have gotten more traction. just great, melodic playing

https://samuelgrayedmondson.bandcamp.com/album/two-ravens-volume-one

have no use for the vocal tracks. in any case, it's pretty good

First Glenn Jones record reissued:

https://thrilljockey.com/products/this-is-the-wind-that-blows-it-out

From Glenn Jones on FB. Curious to check out

In the history of so-called American Primitive guitar, Boston plays a key role. Some of the very first record reviews of John Fahey’s career were in the The Broadside of Boston, (including one by a young Al Wilson, whom John would later take to California and introduce to the guys who formed Canned Heat).

John released his second album, Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes, in 1964. He sold a few copies to Norm’s Record
Mart, a record-store-cum-distributor in Berkeley, California. Soon Norm was ordering ever-increasing numbers of copies, and when an astonished John asked where they were going, he learned that most of them were being shipped to Briggs & Briggs and The Harvard Coop, both located in the heart of Cambridge’s Harvard Square.

Boston sales of Death Chants were so good that John had to press a second batch. Soon thereafter, he was offered his first-ever paying gig, at one of Cambridge’s several folk-music clubs.

The first album John made not for his own Takoma Records imprint was The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. Recorded for Cambridge’s Riverboat Records (half its tracks were recorded here), it was John’s fifth album, but the first to be licensed to a label in the UK. It was thus many people’s introduction to Fahey’s music, including John Peel’s.

John played Boston regularly for most of the rest of his life. I attended every show he played here after I moved to Boston in
1977; all of them were sold out.

That was then. I’ve been to shows in recent years that left me scratching my head: Peter Walker, with a full-page career spanning
article in the The Phoenix to promote his show, drew 11 people. Sir Richard Bishop , darling of the indie rock scene and something of a guitarist’s guitarist, played to seven people at P.A.’s Lounge in Somerville, including the members of the opening band, me, and the sound person. (His show there just a few months later was packed – what had changed?!)

Jack Rose and Michael Chapman performed to a nearly empty café in some basement at Tufts University. (Michael took one quick look around the place as he entered and muttered, “Smells like no money.”)

I’ve been playing here for decades and though I’m pleasantly surprised if a few friends come out, I’ve had my heart broken too
many times to assume anything.

OK, so much for my attempt to lay out the local context. I first became aware of Rob Noyes a couple years ago when we shared a bill; since then, I’ve seen him a half a dozen times and always with great delight. Rob, more often than not, is the most energized and energizing performer on whatever stage he graces. He’s exciting and one of the few guitarists playing today whose fast pieces I love as much as the slow ones. (I find myself sometimes holding my breath for fear that Rob is running so swiftly that he’s going to trip over his own feet, but he never does.)

Being inside this music for as long as I have, I find myself cocking an ear to the right hand – for me, that’s where the action is. Rob has an original approach for sure. There is something of Robbie Basho in the hyperkinetic gallop of “Paydirt” – often Rob’s set-opener – but what do you make of the right-hand chop of “Blather”? And while he’s certainly conversant with the doublethumbing technique of Fahey and company (as evident on “Further Off”), he doesn’t rely on it.

Suffice to say, his chops are more than up to the job of allowing him to say what he wants to say. His compositions are compelling – some are even slightly unfathomable – and they suck me right in.

Rob has a sure sense of dynamics and his pieces are very much his own. (I’m especially fond of “Stultification” and “Soft As Lights,” pieces that any guitarist worth his or her salt would be proud to claim.)

Having bugged Rob for a year or more as to when he was going to get his damn album out, I’m delighted that it’s finally here, and that it’s everything I’d hoped for. If there’s any justice in this vale of tears, it’s the first of many.

Don’t let your hometown grind you down or bum you out too much, Rob. I’ve lived in Boston nearly 40 years and I’m still perplexed at what passes for a music scene here.

You got the goods, my brother; now go!

Glenn Jones
Cambridge, MA
August 2016

nice, i think if Jones is repping for him it's worth checking out. pettibone cover art is a plus too!
and yeah, as maybe we've noted before, it is still a little amazing how tiny the audience is for this stuff ...

Sorry, I'm having trouble figuring out what Rob Noyes release is being referred to...

The 2014 demo sounds good though

ha yeah, they don't seem to be doing a great job of getting the word out just yet:
https://scontent.fsnc1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14856035_10210675908033862_2966994881215923339_o.jpg

Thanks! I'm interested.

I do wonder if there is another corner of the internet with other people that are nerdy about this genre.