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

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He told me all about it unprompted in an email, so hopefully he'll be OK with me sharing more details here.

Evan, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link

Drag City newsletter again:

Meg Baird Heads Out With Lee Renaldo and Steve Gunn

AH, yes, it's a brand new month and another season on earth! Given today's climate, who knows how many more seasons we've got but that's all the more reason to ACT NOW and join Meg Baird for some upcoming shows! That's right, Meg's got a loaded six string on her back and is headed down the southeast corridor of these fine fifty states stopping in cities like Richmond and Atlanta before looping west towards Texas! Meg's carefully constructed ballads are brimming with vibrancy, taking you down the traditional sandstone that folk is built upon and the simultaneous empathy and entertainment it can provide with pristine musical companionship. Riding alongside Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo for all of the dates below, expect nights of pure, spring bliss at each and every show!

6/13/17 The Broadberry Richmond VA
6/14/17 Arts Center of Carrboro Carrboro NC
6/15/17 40 Watt Club Athens GA
6/16/17 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta GA
6/17/17 Saturn Birmingham AL
6/18/17 Gasa Gasa New Orleans LA
6/19/17 White Oak Music Hall Houston TX
6/20/17 Sons Of Hermann Hall Dallas TX
6/23/17 Proud Larry's Oxford MS
6/24/17 The Anchor Fellowsh

All dates with Lee Ranaldo and Steve Gunn!
(dunno if they're playing back-up for her only or at all, solo sets only or as well etc)

dow, Saturday, 3 June 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link

Just saw Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsberg w Jake Xerexes Fussel opening

Great show, taped it on my portable. Tascam, will clean it up and post it but yeah wow you should see this tour if you get a chance

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 June 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link

glenn jones/matthew azevedo LP 'waterworks' is really great... the musique concrete bits work really well

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link

yeah it's great

Also great: new Hayden Pendigo - Greetings from Amarillo

really cool meditative guitarwork, reminds me a bit of Danny Paul Grody's rural new ageism, then more ambient tracks that recall Popul Vuh's more pastoral moments or even Tangerine Dream if they were from TX

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link

gotta get that jones LP! yeah, I like pedigo's new one.
re-recommending the Elkhorn LP - the coltrane cover is surprisingly successful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9F-hcrPBrA

really been enjoying that forthcoming Orcutt LP too -- his "Old Man River" is one for the ages!

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link

i saw a facebook comment from hayden pendigo on something that roy montgomery posted about daniel fichescher where he posted a vid of himself playing vuh-style. it reminded me that some people have no reservations posting unsolicited videos of themselves playing!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link

oops missing an L in Fichelscher but you know what i meant

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link

do you think it's rude or just not something you are accustomed to doing yourself? (also, did you go to horse lords this weekend?!?)

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link

both (though not rude necessarily, just quite forward on Roy Montgomery's facebook page, and definitely not something I would do myself)

i did!!! the place was packed for the second opening act, but all those people spilled out and we went in. i was right directly in the front and it was extremely enjoyable. they didn't play the song i wanted to hear from the mixtape iV, but it was super long and probably edited together. which brings me to this point: they seem CANnier every time I see them. People were going bananas dancing too. made me want a cowbell and rototoms, haha!! looks like they aren't that expensive either...

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

they're so crazy good, like an ideal band for me in many ways... would love to see them

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link

i think they came thru mpls once and i missed them :(

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link

it was my third time!
haven't been disappointed yet

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link

yeah horse lords rule massively live, great nyc set from the other week: http://www.nyctaper.com/2017/06/horse-lords-june-4-2017-sunnyvale/

adam, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link

this is a funny thread for a horse lords convo to break out on but the more the merrier i say

eh i know a lot of folk in thread enjoy em

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link

yeah chris forsyth has a new jam out today -- he doesn't reallllly fit in w/ the fahey world (for the most part) but what the heck: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532600182/songs-we-love-chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band-dreaming-in-the-non-dream

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link

this is a funny thread for a horse lords convo to break out on but the more the merrier i say

otm and thanks for the link, adam

sleeve, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link

forsyth has always been a thread staple imo

(also his earlier stuff before he went all television fits pretty well)

<3 solar motel band

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link

yeah if we're just going with 21st Century (Mostly) Instrumental Guitar Stuff he fits in fine. new song is awesome.

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link

horse lords guitarist uses fingerpicks so there

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link

NO YOU MAY NOT DISCUSS THEM HERE

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link

William Tyler apparently is on a forthcoming Forsyth live cassette!

Evan, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link

xp he also chews a toothpick

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link

no he has older stuff that is way more in line!! i won't be bullied by early chris forsyth truthers!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLhZanAf2Gk

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link

horse lords i admit are a perversion of common decency and the social mores of the post fahey thread but i like them

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link

haha, i'm just kidding you guys here -- the more eclectic the better, i says.

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link

actually maybe this is of thread interest -- the night before i saw heather leigh and peter brötzmann and they were great. her guitar playing was super interesting to watch (her hands in particular) and sounded really cool. lots of pedals on the pedal steel. brötzmann brötzmanned as he does. they played for an hour!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link

yeah cbesinger played me a heather leigh pedal steel album, so good

that show sounds amazing

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link

they set up on the floor! i was like 2 feet from her, maybe 10 from him and i had to move and sit behind them. it was intense!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link

yeah, i'd like to see them play! all for more adventurous pedal steel stuff

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link

new forsyth song reminds me a little bit of the longer cavern of antimatter material

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link

when i saw leigh and brotzmann last week a) it was super awesome but b) it kinda felt a couple times like heather was setting him up to just go off and level the place last exit style but he didn't, stayed (reasonably) tuneful and restrained.

i couldn't really see her (bad folding-chair type venue) but achieving a brotzmannian level of shabbiness in my old age is like #1 goal now

adam, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link

So this Chuck Johnson ambient pedal steel album hits stores soon, right? I need it! Was going to just pick it up at a local shop if I could.

Evan, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link

think it came out last week? beautiful record.

tylerw, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link

lanois's ambient pedal steel record from last year is great too
ambient pedal steel is as hot as lil yachty

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link

yeah cbesinger played me a heather leigh pedal steel album, so good

that show sounds amazing

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 4:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I rep hard for her solo record I Abused Animal love it. I kind wish she sang as well when playing with Brotzmann, esp cuz I love hearing Brotz against a wide, expressive voice, a la Haino, but so the two Brotzmann/Leigh records are absolutely some of my most favorite music of late. He really has found a new gear I think playing with her. When I saw them last yr he uncorked an amazing flurry of notes that could have been fucking David Sanborn they were so smooth & pretty and then dipped back into his raw tone. So fucking good.

And yes Brotzmann is an underrated fashion icon.

Ok end wind instrument rant, as you were -X CB

chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link

sarah louise/sally anne morgan project House and Land out tomorrow!

https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/house-and-land

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 June 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link

House And Land is not what I expected, vocal-heavy with minimal guitar work

sleeve, Friday, 16 June 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link

I think it's quite wonderful, Kossoy sisters gone microtonal

global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link

Surprised by how much I enjoyed it on first listen.

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link

it veers into the drone/avant territory so subtly. wasn't a fan of sally morgan's vocals on the releases with mike gangloff but they work really well here.

global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link

Dig the House and Land record a lot. Good stuff. Really enjoying what I have heard of the new Orcutt as well.

grandavis, Monday, 26 June 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link

Couple of nice guitar-based releases on Cabin Floor Esoterica just came out.

Rootless (good analogy is maybe Danny Paul Grody side of acoustic action, but need to listen a bit more to drive the larger picture): https://cabinflooresoterica.bandcamp.com/album/cfe-66-sculptures-deep-within-the-cave

grandavis, Monday, 26 June 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link

East of the Valley Blues: https://cabinflooresoterica.bandcamp.com/album/cfe-63-rivereto-de-konscio

Duo of brothers who improvise on acoustic guitar. Has a pretty free flowing minimal approach but gets into some cool interplay. Really into the sound generally, and they hit some real sweet spots.

grandavis, Monday, 26 June 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link

east of the valley blues is great, would like to hear more stuff like this- not a ton of americana signifiers but still fits here well

global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 June 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link

Yeah, I am really into it. Their previous record is really good too.

grandavis, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link

I got a friendly email from Paradise of Bachelors on Friday about this, which I had no clue was getting released until that very moment:
http://media.paradiseofbachelors.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/06014624/PoB-34-LP-jacket-web.jpg

Listening now, and I really sort of love it a lot. Has a very Bert Jansch-esque stateliness to it that I didn't expect at all. Really wonderful.

Austin, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link

Oooh I didn't know that was out, very excited

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link


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