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

Wet Tuna! Forthcoming LP on Poon Village?
That show does look great.

Yeah man, that is the kind of show I wish happened here more frequently, not that I should complain. Have had many decent shows in the past few years. Guess we all should to move to Western Mass/Southern Vermont, huh ....

it is a little paradise, i miss living there. i go to brattleboro at least once a year though

listening to Nace's new album that i got from him last night. live duo performance with Greg Kelley on amplified trumpet. very cool. abstract improv. sounds great.

that show last night was extra good. there are lots of good shows around here. but everyone sounded so good. they have a good sound guy and a good PA at this bar. which is a rarity in the places that most people play around here. and it's just a really comfortable space. can't wait to hear willie down there. he will definitely benefit from their set-up. will bring earplugs for sunburned and herbcraft. the guy who owns the bar loves bass and reggae dub and he has huge PA speakers that i imagine can get pretty intense with a big rock thing. should be cool.

didn't know if i was going to like this at first, but it's good! kinda more chopsy, but good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nu_ZSotUhw

Those shows look great Scott. The new england freek excursions are probably my overall favorite group of artists (time-lag, etc...) and are partially responsible for bringing me into the solo guitar fold.

Grandavis - I would hope for VA/NC's sake they do one of those free folk mountain jam fest's again! I can't remember what the official billing was but I remember it involving Lajoie, MV, and others

Yeah man, me too! If I was a different kind of guy I would try to set it up, but hell maybe it'll happen without me. Lots of folks hovering around this area that could be the driver, maybe we can plant the seed here.

The Roncallo thing is pretty cool!

gary higgins is playing here tonight with sunburned and pigeons. never seen gary higgins. i do love that album though. maybe i should go.

i guess i should have posted that on the stoner loner summer bummer thread though....

Just watched this whole Roncallo concert.

xp

saw Higgins about 10 years ago and it was a great show. the cellist, Maureen Wells (who played on Red Hash) kind of stole the show, both her playing and sardonic wit. think the other players were (mostly?) from the album as well.

That came out wrong. That's an 18m excerpt, not a whole concert. A lot of good stuff though! xp

Went to the record store today and found Christopher Idylls vinyl marked down by $10 :)

attn: people of san francisco

tashi dorji + bill orcutt
meg baird
danny paul grody

feb. 15th @ hemlock tavern

where at ums? did they have any other copies

Roadrunner had it in their new cutout discount bin, only one, did have 2 PG Six records who I always meant to check out & would have gotten if not for Gimmer

It's definitely the kind of record that easily makes it to the discount bin. The high list price + obscure artist reissue recipe.

true but you never know when something's gonna go full on Rodriguez, and I sorta felt like this one (guitar soli + Big Star: err, no brainer) had a chance of "breaking through," so to speak

Sure but not so much with instrumental genres

yeah, unfortunately true. I still think this one should have gotten more attention than it did, but I feel that way about 90% of the new things I like nowadays

Am still listening to that Gimmer pretty regularly. Perfectly happy to have paid full price for it, but nice you got one for cheap UMS.

the Michael Chapman album is out today

stream is here: https://paradiseofbachelors.bandcamp.com/album/50

so far so good

I'll probably pick that up when Spring starts to come in. I associate music strongly with location and season, so if I start binging it now it'll be a winter album and that doesn't seem right.

Am still listening to that Gimmer pretty regularly. Perfectly happy to have paid full price for it, but nice you got one for cheap UMS.

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also $22 is now "cheap" for vinyl :(

I hadn't spent enough time w/the new Marisa Anderson, it's really wonderful

very nice film of last summer's VDSQ showcase -- Alan Licht, Donald Miller, Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir, Sir Richard Bishop, and Bill Orcutt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_cAB8wUww&t=142s

hmm, maybe that doesn't work? should work here http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/156357296942/vdsq-2016-pioneer-works-brooklyn-new-york-july

wow!

1st ever Bishop/Orcutt jam, apparently!

hey all - just a reminder if you are planning on supporting the Bandcamp/ACLU day, Drag City has Mark Fossom's Lost Takoma Sessions up there for $9, definitely a crucial American Primitive release

list of labels / artists donating today as well : https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/02/nobannowall-over-150-labels-artists-join-us-in-donating-fridays-profits-to-the-aclu/

show in greenfield on the 17th. i'm going. i like allysen callery but i can never find her CDs so i'm hoping she brings some to sell.

Allysen Callery, Rob Noyes, Josh Burkett, Frank Hurricane Feb 17

she's really good. sounds awesome!

kinda got away from doing my acoustic stuff for awhile but got a pretty solid recording of a song i've had kicking around for awhile in dadgbd (nick drake tuning, someone of FB said jimmy page used it too)

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/landr-nick-drake-song-mix-2

Ooh I like this one UMS. Really nice descending lines, as well as pace (I don't know why but the tempo/phrasing is really working for me). Glad to have you back at it!

Funny, since my early days posting here I have moved farther away from "straight" playing it seems. Kind of a shame, but I just can't escape the drone/minimal crap I get up to. I should get back to it as well.

In other news, I have been listening to Dr. Ragtime and his Pals and the Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pickers collab albums a lot these days. Maybe this is what is getting me all riled up for some tunes.

thanks! i've never listened to dr. ragtime & his pals i should do that

it might be my favorite Rose-related release, seriously

yeah, it's fantastic!

Yeah UMS, you will not be disappointed. Let's just say that Jack had some serious pals!

kinda got away from doing my acoustic stuff for awhile but got a pretty solid recording of a song i've had kicking around for awhile in dadgbd (nick drake tuning, someone of FB said jimmy page used it too)

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/landr-nick-drake-song-mix-2

Spinning this in plug rn.

:-)

I just googled plug, looks cool like that old site where ilxors used to dj I can't recall the name of

i don't follow this thread intensely - has this vintage vid of ted lucas been around here yet? because man! what a thing this is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUfG-4VX2-E

https://joostdijkema.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-revelations

Joost Dijkema is an aspiring musician, as well as one of the few young fingerpick guitarists from the North of the Netherlands. He performs astounding acoustic guitarinstrumentals, mixed with wonderful songs and warm vocals, in which observations and stirrings of the soul from the past and present play a central role.

Do you guys/gals (those of you who play) ever feel self-conscious about chops? This guy Joost is crazy proficient and this is one of those genres where proficiency could easily be over-valued. I've been finding a little niche in something more formless than what I've shared here years ago now. Sometimes I wonder whether it would feel a little more "legit" if I could add some more technical flare to it overall.

Joost vocals are straight up Michael Chapman to me. This record is really nice.

yeah that joost stuff is nice, as is that ted lucas video, sent me back to the wayfaring strangers comp

re: chops, i generally think i'm pretty average, but then i listen to things i'd recorded years/months prior and find them pretty good so who knows. i do feel like my muscle memory/accuracy has faded in recent years, it's very frustrating. i've taken to just doing basic patterns to a timer/metronome

also re: chops, i've come around to thinking that generally, fahey is underrated and basho is overrated. it's a cliche to say that fahey wasn't a 'technical' player and while i get what people mean by that, watching a lot of those late 60s videos of fahey, he has this very alien poise and control in his picking hand. it's really hard to play simple music that delicately and accurately (especially on older guitars like he was using). it's fairly easy to create furious cascades of arpeggios on a 12 string. i love them both fwiw

this genre isn't really about chops anyway