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

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).

The new Andrew Weathers Ensemble is excellent. He's been making consistently good records for nearly a decade now, in a broadly ambient/free folk kind of arena: backporch, woodsy, creaking out of the wounds of the earth, lots of squeezebox drones. That kind of thing. Makes me think of a palsied Scott Tuma.

https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/build-a-mountain-where-our-bodies-fall

A. Weathers is cool, definitely like his approach. Haven't heard this one yet but have heard good things from a bunch of folks.

Another East of the Valley Blues release as well. Pretty excellent dual acoustic guitar action. Really like where they take their playing, and they go long on both tracks here:

https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/fayet

nice, loved their last release.
and yeah, i enjoyed that new andrew weathers, pretty interesting stuff.

If you dug the previous EOTVB then this one should hit the spot. Good stuff for sure.

I (should) hesitate to post right after first listens, but Marisa Anderson's Traditional and Public Domain Songs(Mississippi Records, 11/17) is such an onslaught, and even the shortest tracks stay under my skin----a bit overwhelming initially, so ear-li in the mor-ning, had to pace my self---so it's finger-and-sometimes-thumbipicking, tending to de- and reconstruct familiar songs, frequently with levels and degrees of distorted light---no pedals, or so it seems; there's at least the illusion of a electronic-organic effect, when you use these settings or just this kind of 0-budget guitar and amp, like from a 1965 yard sale--then again: 0 distortion on some tracks, just this Pop Staples shadow----or putting it all together, for instance on a slithering, psychedelic "Battle Hymn of the Republic"---or Pops in a sinister mood, for "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye." (But there's a range of emotional nuances, implications, overall.)
A single departure from the main vine: "Bella Ciao", which also has a shadow but I would like to hear her do more with the Italian, Hispanic, Slavic chapters of the American Songbook, so hoping for a Vol. 2.
But this album may itself be a single exception; dunno her previous, but press sheet mentions:
...The Golden Hour followed by Mercury (2013) and Into The Light (2016). She is in demand as a collaborator and composer, contributing to recent recordings by Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux among others, as well as creating music for short films and soundtracks.

Anderson tours extensively throughout Europe and North America.,,Pitchfork named Anderson’s 2015 split LP with Tashi Dorji one of the top experimental records of the year. Recent festival appearances include Le Guess Who, Moog Fest, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival. All Euro dates this fall, so far.
Nov. 17, save the date.

is that a new release? i thought i saw a similar record on her bandcamp at one point

yeah, it's the one that came out on grapefruit in 2014-ish. I guess that's out of print and she's expanded it a bit. definitely a killer record!

She is so damn good. Just a joy to listen to. Just jammed that Footfalls side (split with T. Dorji) last week.

can't remember if this showed up on a fahey thread but

John Fahey @ Memphis Country Blues Festival, 1969. @dying4badmusic pic.twitter.com/ZgIFbcqOu8

— Death Is Not The End (@deathisnot) October 17, 2017

so classic, just excited that this footage is seemingly out there somewhere, hopefully we get to see the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LLlfhquKw

nice

new alexander LP pre-order up, he's the sleeper hit of 2017 IMO

https://www.davidalexanderguitars.com/

omg the donkeys

dbh is the best

https://soundcloud.com/zach-coombs-2/megrez

this is gorgeous too

good lookin out on the alexander, saw jeff conklin on FB now playing had a copy