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

he's also a top notch drummer!!

Hah came here to post this---as expected, no real need, but here tis---you are there!:
Byron Coley
@ByronColey1

second day of 1000 incarnations fest was equally blinding. from sarah louise's trio with susan alcorn (and a julie tippetts overlay) to peter walker's crazy indian and flamenco mash-ups to george stavis doing coltrane's arrangement of "my favorite things" and so on...amazing!

11:38 PM - 14 Apr 2018

Speaking of you are there, was just now struck by an exemplary acoustic trio subset, almost midway through Big Star's Live At Lafayette's Music Room: rough and ready recording maps vivid, kinetic detail of "Thirteen," "The India Song," "Try Again," (Dobro? Bajo sexto?), and "Watch The Sunrise," which I think Edd Hurt pointed out on the main Big Star thread as being inspired by and/or lifted from Gimmer Nicholson.

This acoustically electrified sequence def. sustains and builds momentum of the whole, staying in exploratory, retrospective and introspective character while bearing down, committed to the now like trio Thompson (even though press material claims they weren't even sure at that point about making a second album, with Bell gone; maybe shows like this showed them they could).

Also the electrically electrified, yet ballad-y as hell, in a good way, performance of "Ballad of El Goodo," which I've never been el fondo of, but they got me here.

omg i love that song

is there someone singing?

I think George Stavis was probably the biggest highlight for me, was not familiar, absolutely mind-blowing

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, April 15, 2018 2:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just found out his daughter died in March 2016. Those wounds must have been fresh. :(

original copies of Stavis' LP are kinda pricey, but you can get mp3s for pretty cheap via amazon ...

checking out chuck johnson's set from friday night (i think) — very little to do with "american primitive" per se, but whatever, it's glorious.

lol right after i type that the KFJC recording implodes ...

Stavis had these really weird Italian CD pressings of Labrynth I picked one up

Overall this was the best musical event I've ever been to

omg I love that song
Is there someone singing? Oh yeah you know it! Also good picking and chording in the undercurrents of St 100/6.

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The #SallyMann exhibit presents the hauntingly equivocal work if a white Virginian woman photographing her family, Southern landscapes, and Black bodies using 19th C. photo tech. The music of fellow Virginians Dan Bachman and Jack Rose followed me through the gallery. #1000rose Yes. her pix are very evocative.

Overall this was the best musical event I've ever been to

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 16, 2018 7:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed, it was certainly up there! Also it was very very nice to meet you, global & your friends (do they post here?).

Did grandavis ever make it out for the tail end or just to say hi? How were the last couple of performances?

Yeah Evan great to meet you both! I don't think the guy from Takoma we were with posts here

Though neal cassidy does and was super fun to meet as well

Finally got to meet grandavis at the after party but he'd just gotten there

Was nice to meet ilxors irl and I have to say chopping it up with Byron Coley a couple times out smoking was really a thrill

Yep, was a good time, though I am sorry to have missed most of the festival, as well as meet up with others like yourself, Evan, and apparently Mr. Rag Lore/Neal Cassady was there too (amongst many many others). Really enjoyed the Nathan Bowles/Luke Stewart & Chuck Johnson/Sarah Hughes improv duos. Very much my kinda thing. Due to getting deep into conversation I missed the final performance, which looked cool (trio with two slide players and one picker from the one photo I saw).

so glad i made it out to this, can't believe i was on the fence. the best part was being able to geek out incredibly hard and make the most inside baseball references to guitar players from 1971 and being sure that basically everyone knew what you were talking about haha

glenn jones on FB

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~~~The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose! ~~~ Without an audience there is no festival, and what warmth and enthusiasm our crowd brought to this event -- even at my most hopeful I couldn't have predicted such an outpouring of enthusiasm. People flew in from from 11 different countries that I know of. Several said it was the best festival they've ever attended -- and seemed to mean it -- and some performers told us this was the best (or one of the best) experiences they've ever had, the warmest they've ever been received. I've just got back to Boston and my head is still spinning. Thank-YOU!

awww

Hah I went to say goodbye to Glenn and he gave me a hug and basically said "I am hugging everyone at this point". Love Glenn, a wonderful presence in my opinion.

sleeper hit of the fest for me was gwenifer raymond, check her out- she's gonna be big (well, as big as you can get playing this stuff haha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNnQJych8QA

Yeah props to Glenn and the organizers, such a well done event

Gwenifer will be on a Sarah Louise/Bachman/Ryley Walker trajectory

Though I will say that Marisa Anderson right now has such a complete, unique vision for how she plays and puts music together it's so impressive and inspiring

Marisa is the greatest

Greatest stage banter too

"So why is it that Jorma Kaukonen is never bought up in contexts like this? It's kind of strange... Just asking the question"

i wondered if her reference to 'my community' not being super represented at the fest was a dig at the demographics of the performers... i think it was

Maybe the performers and the audience both. But 'community' is a pretty un-specific term for a first-time music festival, so hard to pinpoint without asking. Could be multiple things bundled up into that idea for her. And yes, she is the best and seeing her live is always a joy. One of the things I was unhappy to miss.

Itasca (aka Kayla Cohen) was another nice surprise for me...she's more a singer songwriter but great player and did these long meditative things where she would do verse then drift off into an instrumental section, very cool

yah I saw her w/ Marisa and Sarah Louise at a house show, good stuff

damn hell of a house show!

There are a couple of Itasca instrumental albums out there. Think they were cassette releases (and probably linked somewhere in the two monstrous threads we have for this stuff, pretty sure she has come up from time to time).

itasca's really good — I liked her first paradise of bachelor LP a lot but feel like she's going to put out a total masterpiece at some point ...
and yeah, she just put out a kind a low-profile tape that is more on the instrumental tip: https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/morning-flower

that intrigues me b/c most of what she played when I saw her was ssw type stuff, I don't remember any instrumentals at all

I don't know how much she focuses on instrumental vs. sung compositions, but this one for instance is all instrumental and really enjoyable:

https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/anns-tradition-2015

the open to chance LP is all singer-songwriter type stuff — I think that's been more what she's focused on the last few years

Mysterious Basho LP for sale, distributed by Gnome Life. No tracklist, very little info. Anyone know anything about it?

https://www.gnomeliferecords.com/zzz/5869483

never heard of it, i feel there are some dodgy bootleggy releases going around re: basho

billy faier 'banjo' album (1973) is astounding, highly recommended. virtuosic but not flashy or showy. just good

Only skippers for me are the two Max Ochs ragas, which I'd somehow never heard before; they just sound like inept, out of tune slide guitar to me. I remember enjoying other things by him but this is a curious inclusion imo.

― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, March 18, 2018 9:33 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha and i liked the max ochs ragas for the reasons you didn't... he was a bummer live though, would barely even finish a song, his singing was dire and he generally seemed like he was winging it

Hmmm that Basho thing... very intriguing because the director of the documentary (screening at the festival) made mention of seeing/hearing rare career spanning tapes that were in possession of some of his Sufi friends I believe? Everyone seemed to be clamoring over them but they were supposedly closely guarded and/or their fate in general was uncertain (due to condition and their owner's will etc.).

Wondering if that comp has anything to do with any of this...

There's definitely some Basho releases of....unclear origins, to put it kindly, get the sense the estate is weird too

I went for it and ordered... We'll see what happens.

Please report back! I'm tempted but RSD wiped me out

i'm deejaying the steve gunn solo/willie lane show tomorrow night. i always just want to play blackfoot records but maybe i should spin more refined sounds. i got a ton of nice armenian folk records in at the store. those might sound cool loud at the bar.

i'm not actually that familiar with steve gunn music.

just got a sweet original pressing of this album too. gonna bring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJriTVPFY6U

Damn Scott I would be into that show. Steve is cool solo, but if you wanna hit the sweet spot with his music you should go with the Gunn/Truscinski duo stuff (imo):

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/606091941/first-listen-sarah-louise-deeper-woods

That Paredes is nice (so far). Gonna enjoy the rest of this today.

Also, new Sarah Louise available via "First Listen":

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/606091941/first-listen-sarah-louise-deeper-woods

I have NOT listened yet, but look forward to doing so. I imagine it'll be vocal tunes, but I dug the House and Land record plenty and imagine this is gonna hit some of those zones.

Let me know how the Steve Gunn show is, Scott. I probably won't make it out but I'm half-considering the Somerville gig tomorrow.

steve gunn was great! he's such a cool guitarist. definitely made me want to see him with a group/duo. willie was great too. and willie sang a song! that surprised me.

i totally played blackfoot too. really loud. a live version of "train train" into "keep on chooglin'" by ccr.

Cool, thanks. In the end, it was probably a wildly optimistic idea that I could make it there but it does sound like a really good time.

i'm always really surprised and happy when someone with an acoustic guitar sings songs that they wrote and i am not bored. doesn't happen every day.

of course it helped that he did really cool stuff with his guitars. more people should try that.