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

i like the alexander. never trust a guitarist with no slow tracks

yeah this Alexander is lovely! so good

been listening to Eric Schoenberg's Steel Strings a lot lately and thinking about how the love of cultish dudes really causes guys like this from the more music biz Grossman axis (signed to Rounder, has his own signature guitar etc) to be underrated, people love the whole "recorded in one weekend in an abandoned church, this former member of the Universal Meaning commune pressed only 100 of this outsider gem" thing so much

this Schoenberg album is do great, though I think I have a higher tolerance for the pro/cornier side of this spectrum than most

You are correct Ogmor. I can assure you that Alexander is both a good and trustworthy sort. Has the right attitude about things, and is a young dude who likely has a lot of good music ahead of him. Love that most recent release though.

Interesting fact: Alexander built the guitar he plays himself, and it is a really cool parlor-sized one that projects and rings out like a much larger-bodied guitar. Made me want one!

i appreciate some stefan grossman from time to time but you can't deny that him chiming in with 'play that rag!' and 'bring it on home now!' in this is corny as fuck

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

I contest that anybody saying such phrases, in any circumstance, is corny as fuck.

Schoenberg isn't that corny!

frank hutchison pulls it off imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-UFhQIN528

in case anyone is in Berlin, I'm jealous

Cian Nugent @ciannugent
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Playing guitar in the @ryleywalker band this week. Playing a last min show in Berlin tomorrow at Tiefgrund. I'm opening solo too!

thanks for posting that Alexander; it's great!

Very cook nerve_pylon, glad you enjoyed it! He is a great dude and quite young, so perhaps many years of good music to come. Very good live too if you get a chance to see him.

in case anyone is in Berlin, I'm jealous

Cian Nugent @ciannugent
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Playing guitar in the @ryleywalker band this week. Playing a last min show in Berlin tomorrow at Tiefgrund. I'm opening solo too!

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hahaha I literally just got back from Berlin yesterday! UGH oh well

damn, so close

born with the caul is classic, that new one not so much IMO

i hope a boot shows up, him playing in ryley's band should be fantastic

yeah i've been a fan of how often he shares his live stuff, some serious jammers going on

speaking of live stuff, did y'all check out this bachman / elkhorn double bill tape? great stuff: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/162940697142/daniel-bachman-elkhorn-rhizome-washington

updated the playlist and added a bunch of stuff. also relistened to that o'rourke "fast car" which makes me feel like I'm gonna fall through the floor, it's just so MUCH

ILM's Rolling Folk Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

Steve Gunn's Pickathon set commencing on the LiveStream now: vocals okay, mostly getting into acoustic and electric guitars so far--this might or might not take you there: https://livestream.com/pickathon/pickathon2017?origin=stream_live&mixpanel_id=138c362e53432-0be39e05d-6f1b264b-c0000-138c362e535e&acc_id=4906583&medium=email

Oh, Elkington's one of the guitarists digging in there.

This is just what I wanted to hear rn.

picked up the second glenn jones album against which the sea continually beats which has just been issued on vinyl, would be worth it just for the teething necklace

It feels like just a few weeks ago I was hoping they'd get to reissuing that one as well. It was the only one I was missing. Not sure how I missed the release announcement entirely!

From Drag City News:

MACKAY & WALKER BACK IN THE RING

Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker's inspired collaboration continues with a 2nd volume of freshly baked tunes: they call it, SpiderBeetleBee! It's been nearly two years since their much-admired 2015 debut, Land of Plenty (Whistler Records), and SpiderBeetleBee more than makes up for the long wait with a rich, resonant batch of performances that elevate the guitar duo's sound into an ever-widening panorama of styles.

Their first album was developed over a month-long live residency at Chicago's Whistler, reflecting MacKay and Walker's joy in their newly found playing relationship. As kindred spirits, they found in their playing the ability to wordlessly finish a phrase or suggest a direction while speaking solely through their guitars. SpiderBeetleBee continues fluidly through and beyond a similar path of psych-folk-blues-raga, brewing further explorations in mixed-and-matched idioms, turning composed melodies inside-out via improvisation, and finding in the blend a shared Walker/MacKay pasture, serendipitously located somewhere between Appalachia and the Highlands.

SpiderBeetleBee radiates forth with equal parts austerity and whimsy, as evidenced in the lead single "I Heard Them Singing". Generating a nimble tempo with the aid of MacKay's requinto (a kind of 5-string Mexican guitar), Walker's rolling chords and the percolating tabla of Ryan Jewell, "I Heard Them Singing" suggests an unknown short-cut from Brazil to India!

LISTEN TO "I HEARD THEM SINGING" NOW! https://billmackayryleywalker.bandcamp.com/track/i-heard-them-singing

SpiderBeetleBee is out October 20th (preorder it, yo!), with a U.S. tour to follow! But before that, on a related and sufficiently important note, Bill MacKay tours the UK on the back of Esker for the first time later this month! And dig this, all dates are solo, supporting
Ryley Walker! Makes ya think what may happen, don't it? Well, don't think any longer, feel it out and get yourself to those shows, mates!

WALKER/MACKAY TOUR!

October 20 at ACME Records in Milwaukee, WI
October 25 at The Mothlight in Asheville, NC
October 21 at Constellation in Chicago, IL (Record Release)
October 22 at Magnetic South in Bloomington, IN
October 23 at Al's Bar in Lexington, KY
October 24at Pilot Light in Knoxville, TN

BILL MACKAY UK TOUR:

August 25 at The Musician in Leiscester, England
August 27 at The Band Room in Farndale, England
August 28 at Stereo in Glasgow, Scotland
August 29 at St. Mary's in Chester, England
August 30 at The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, England
August 31 at Mama Roux's in Birmingham, England

alexander & rob noyce played at global's house it was awesome

listening to john fahey for the first time in a long time, the transfiguration of blind joe death, wow he was something

gotta check this fahey guy out ...
that noyes record is really solid, holds up nicely. you bootleg the show or what?

taped on reel-to-reel by housemate. ums had a digital recorder i think

my stupid card ran out of space halfway through your set, i have to check out much i got...

looked like the reel to reel got everything

both super nice guys and fun to talk to as well

New LP coming from UK solo electric guitarist Dean McPhee: https://soundcloud.com/deanmcphee/four-stones-lp-preview-1

One side of remastered material originally released on the Folklore Tapes label and one side of new music

oh yeah, i like McPhee! there's actually a kickstarter for the record: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hoodfaire/dean-mcphee-four-stones-lp

Live session by House and Land: https://folkadelphia.bandcamp.com/album/house-and-land-folkadelphia-session-7-23-2017

Don't know Rob Noyes, but Alexander (David) is a super nice and interesting guy. Glad that show turned out well.

Wish that tour had come through here, would like to see Rob as well.

i must confess i got a little lifted w/david and it was a great convo :)

Hah hah is that what the kids call it these days? Sounds like a good time though.

more like rappers from 95 :)

Ahhhh right hah hah

Three Lobed day party at Hopscotch just got announced. Looking pretty damn good. House and Land + Nathan Bowles Trio (no idea who is in the trio) + Tashi Dorji & Wooden Wand collab + Chuck Johnson pedal steel set + a new band with Mac McCaughan and Kurt Wagner, plus other stuff. A lot to dig into for sure.

WXDU is co-sponsoring, so it will probably all be streamed.

Some good links:

https://blogthehum.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/the-unaccompanied-guitar-soli-raga-and-beyond-part-three-rick-deitrick-scott-key-george-cromarty-suni-mcgrath-william-eaton-richard-crandell-harry-taussig-vincent-le-masne-and-be/

http://www.milwaukeetaper.com/2017/08/rob-noyes-august-14-2017-at-acme.html

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/08/28/private-pressers-tom-armstrong-rick-deitrick/

the rick deitrick reissues kinda snuck up on me — they start off sounding like pleasant ackerman-esque jams, but often travel into stranger/darker territory. worth checking out for sure.

I know it doesn't technically fit but whatever so far the new Chris Forsyth & Solar Motel Band feels really inspired! the last one didn't stick w/me as much as the previous two.

He's such a great writer of melody.

yeah, it's a killer record for sure!

along similar lines, i got to "premiere" a track from the new Gunn-Truscinski record today: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/09/01/gunn-truscinski-duo-flood-and-fire/

totally great jams on the whole record.

Cool track!

this is tomorrow, streaming on wxdu, should be a good time! http://www.wxdu.org/
https://scontent.fapa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/21014107_1376480735763395_5499031045567258084_o.jpg?oh=2775a087b9dd36613c724c34e95da61d&oe=5A21EACF

Oh, there's a new dbh album coming out!

sweet

Btw the Rob Noyes album w/the Raymond Pettibon album is really becoming one of my favorites

he's got a manic energy that reminds me a bit of Jack Rose

New Sarah Louise, a SPLC benefit with one 23m guitar/vox improv and one quasi-ambient/drone using guitar samples: https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-benefit-of-love

I actually really enjoyed it on first listen.

paul metzger started doing his thing a decent amount of time ago but apparently hadn't heard of fahey until more recently- he shared this today on FB, anybody heard of it? kicking mule has less hip cache compared to takoma but i've heard a lot of good stuff from it

https://www.facebook.com/duckbaker1/posts/1160378060773226

Duck Baker
September 28 at 5:31am ·
I have begun negotiating to regain rights to my 1979 record, "Art of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar," which was my 4th Kicking Mule record. Earlier this year I regained the rights to the other four. There remain some tracks recorded for various anthologies, but at some point next year virtually all of my early recordings should be available and mostly under my own control. Now I just have to figure out a way to sell this stuff!

Just to back that up I had a conversation in which Metzger said the same thing about not knowing Fahey and loving Duck Baker outside the Turf Club so I don't think it's s pose.

Honestly any early Kicking Mule stuff I've heard I liked.

Metzger also expressed that DEVO changed his life, and he liked Pink Floyd, the Doors and Queen a lot

I've got Duck Baker's first record, it's great — I think he kinda figured out his thing without hearing of Fahey, too, so it's an original approach. He does lean in a slightly more ragtime-y direction. Yeah, Kicking Mule is all good that I've heard (and surprisingly cheap usually).