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

kinloch nelson is so good, as is sunwatchers. sunwatchers are incredibly good live also btw

Kinloch Nelson LP is super sweet but just discovered that my two favorite songs on it were written by the other guy

this is just new to me, but just discovered Jorm Kaukonen's first solo album "Quah" and wow this is a lovely fingerstyle album (w/vox and some orchestration)

Jorma is such a great fucking guitarist...up there with anyone

Sweet Kinloch Nelson set in Cambridge last night. Low-key and engaging, with probably 20 people in attendance. And here's an interview with him on WFMU from last week—starts at about 02:01:38: https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=85172&archive=172163

thanks for the link....that's awesome you got to see him....

20 people :(

Glenn Jones was one of them :)

you couldn't ask for a better, nicer figurehead for american primitive :)

Thanks for the tip on the WFMU interview—listening now. Marcus from DFBM shared a link a few weeks back to an interview he did on the Fretboard Journal podcast, it was pretty good if you all haven't heard that one yet either.

I wld like to join ums and Byron Coley in rating the new Isasa album Insilio. it initially sounds squarely in the Fahey-Jones-Rose lineage, but there is more space in it, some lovely light accompaniments, it all sounds really gorgeous, & there's that rare lightness of touch to it - it slowly opens up

here's a nice older video of him playing outdoors that will sort you right out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2V3XAdTcY

https://isasa.bandcamp.com/

That video / song is really nice, thanks for posting it Ogmor. I am a total sucker for cicadas too, so definitely a bonus factor for me.

yeah he had such calm, kind way about him at 1000 rose fest, good spirit

also i was very happy to see Marcus put one of my songs on the Dying for Bad Music Spring Pick 2019 Soundcloud mix...tons of great stuff much better than mine on here (url says fall but its spring)

https://soundcloud.com/dyingforbadmusic/sets/fall-picks-2018

That video makes me very jealous of people with peaceful suburban backyards. As someone from one that now lives in a pretty beautiful semi-peaceful urban residential area without a designated backyard, that scenario is just that much more ideal and nostalgic for me.

Nice going, ums! Great tune!!

this thread is an embarrassment of riches; thank you all!

another discovery i'm really into is Dwight Diller, a clawhammer banjo player, he's got tons of stuff on youtube including some instructional DVD clips and a TON of albums on Bandcamp....really love his style....almost like a bridge between traditional playing and what Nathan Bowles does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5cIOl14ps

He's got a solid album on spotify; digging it!

Just put up a set of mine that is a duo improv with Jon Collin. Jon definitely touches more on this thread than I do (I am a big fan and love all of his playing, but some of it is more adjacent to here than the rest). For those who have been on this journey with me for a while you may get a kick out of it. Definitely goes "out" but I am really happy with it, cool to get to play with Jon. My set above with Jordan Perry is probably more most folks speed though. A lot of straight guitar playing on that one. But yeah, have at it if this kinda thing is interesting to you. Promise not to bomb the thread with more stuff for some time, just thought these particular sets were cool (as everyone should go check out Jordan and Jon's work if you aren't familiar):

https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/jon-collin-and-davis-salisbury-duo-at-the-mercury-theater-4-13-2019

Also, that UMS tune from the DFBM mix is sounding really nice on a sunny day over here. Nice to see it rolled out with such good company.

always like to hear what folks are up to

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thanks! appreciate it :) it's incredible how marcus tracks all these random soundcloud ppl down alongside with more known ppl like bikoff etc

Yeah Marcus rules. Dedicated and always digs up something cool I have never heard before.

gonna try to rep the peter lang 'dharma blues' with some bade cover art and some truly loathsome DI'd yamaha acoustic pickup sound going. actually some great stuff on it, his chops are hot, the songwriting is great, and if you can overlook the CDR digipak feel to the whole thing there are things to love here.

he's one of the most melodic of these original takoma geniuses. he had to stop doing music professionally in the 80s and went to be a computer animator/programmer i think? i'd love to read more about what these sorts of guys getting resurrected musically on tompkins square and whatnot did for their non-musical lives. i'm sure it's fantastic for them to get a little late-life appreciation, not that lang was ever super obscure as far as these things go. outside of the people who read this thread though he kind of is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oisxIINYBo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityxip8zODg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA5p_bulwVw

Finally bought the Sarah Louise in lossless and it's beautiful. Looking forward to seeing her in a couple of weeks.

not normally one to plug my own stuff, but can break the news that I have an LP coming on a very cool psych label in Virgina: http://www.sunriseoceanbender.com/

here are some teasers of the sleeve art, pretty excited. i wish i could share the rest of the art because they did awesome work, but there will be plenty of time. no firm date on release yet

https://i.imgur.com/4pxRX9l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UmIs22P.jpg

That's awesome! Looking forward to it overall.

that rules, sunrise ocean bender is a great label

That’s awesome. Play in Chicago and let me (and whoever I can put together) open for you! 😀

Tell u what, if/when I have stuff to plug please believe I will be plugging it

fuck yeah that looks great

very exciting brigade cru news : )

yeah global! congrats, psyched to hear it.

That's awesome! Can't wait to hear it.

Really digging that Kinloch Nelson album right now, that almost Neil Young vibe it strikes on a few songs is right up my alley.

Also really excited to dig into a recent (unexpected) Fahey find. I was browsing around Barnes & Noble over the weekend, idly flipping through the CD racks and found a copy of God, Time and Causality.

just saw that nyc taper has a recent kinloch nelson show to check out: http://www.nyctaper.com/2019/05/kinloch-nelson-april-8-2019-troost/

global's album is so good I'm excited for you all to hear it. *spoilers* while it varies quite a bit over the album the sound is consistently subtly gorgeous, the textures well-worn to perfection; it's an incredibly comfortable and familiar album to inhabit, and it's tied together with a lot of tasty delay, but he pulls off the all-time #1 trick of covering a lot of ground and incorporating a lot of different streams while sounding more & more like himself. there's one big uncanny dance of the inhabitants>>?????? moment of sublime transcendence which feels like your brain folding in on itself that has been v pleasantly haunting my thoughts ever since I heard it

congrats tetraglobs, fine news indeed

Going to see Sarah Louise tonight.

Excited.

Yeah, should be good. I like the few tracks I've sampled.

Very psyched to hear Global's record. Thanks for that rundown Ogmor, a good primer (pretty much all sounds exactly up my alley).

Same

I liked Lang's "Lost on the Chainbridge Road" a lot.

Also, Sarah Louise was lovely. More singing and keyboards than I expected. Really nice washed-out 12-string electric sound.

New House and Land song is v nice.

a little roundup of some recent/recommended items — https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/05/30/transfigurations-2019-recent-recommended-guitar-soli/

That roundup was nice Tyler. A couple of favorites and some new ones too. Obviously I am a Jon Collin fan (as per one of my recent posts) but also I can take all of that kinda M. Morley action that he can put out. I like this mode of his way more than the solo drone records he's been doing lately (which are fine but not this compelling imo). I mean, as a Dead C fan I am wired for it, but that distilled and simplified version really really works for me. You also do a good job of concisely summing up why!

yeah the morley seemed kinda underwhelming at first, but i think it might be my fave out of all of those now ... he's doing ... something!

His playing just contains a heavy gravitational pull, whether blasted into the void a la Dead C or more quietly floated out, al la this solo release. The key elements remain and operate on my brain in ways I am super into. I imagine it is not for everyone, but those it works for probably all get similar things out of it.

with a bit of time and distance, i think the alexander LP and Sarah Louise's VDSQ release are the best acoustic albums of the last decade.

i don't know if i actually think this but if you haven't listened you are missing out, masters of control and composition

I'd throw Glenn Jones's My Garden State in there, never tire of those songs

Agree with those sentiments. A) Glenn really nailed it on that album, I can't think of many records like that where the songs get stuck in my head for days and yet the record retains mystery and surprise for me. B) Both the Alexander and Sara Louise VDSQ records are two of my favorites in this realm for sure.

I am lucky in that I am buddies with David (aka Alexander) and have gotten to see him play a bunch over the years, but for like the first 3 years I knew him I had no idea he even played acoustic guitar hah hah, I only saw him play in his droney improv band Nagual. Was blown away the first time I saw him, and then yeah that record rules. That control and composition aspect is key, both of them managing to use the tools but not really sound exactly like any one player I can think of when listening to them. It is always make fun of David's lack of song titles when he plays, cause like they are all untitled/numbered, so you can't intelligently talk about any of them other than to remember what number the track was on the particular album in question.

Yeah My Garden State is the album where the constant remixing of his choice guitar patterns finally coalesced into some incredibly tight melodies. That album never gets old.

For me Matthew Mullane VDSQ is also one of the best of the decade