Steve Gunn

I wish he could find a really awesome band to be the lead guitarist for

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm but I feel this way about most of these guitar journeyman types

He would definitely be fun to see let loose in a band. Gunn / Truscinski duo not really a "band" of course, but a very cool forum for straight up Gunn as guitarist action. Desert Heat was cool with Cian Nugent too, hopefully he keeps riding both sides of that equation and does keep putting out more guitar-centric stuff in between the indie-leaning trajectory of the song based stuff. I agree that for me "Way Out Weather" was my favorite batch of songs and approaches to the songs. Still listen to that record all the time. The newer ones just didn't stick as much in regards to repeat plays.

This is probably my most-played Steve Gunn thing these days, just hits a lot of my sweet spots (and I think is a little under the radar for a lot of folks): https://blacktwigpickers.bandcamp.com/album/seasonal-hire

twig pickers are so great

They are! That last track on "Seasonal Hire" is basically like a slightly more straightforward acoustic Pelt w/ additional instrumentation and Steve playing instead of Jack. I love it.

Maybe I didn't give it a proper chance but "Acoustic Unseen" is working a lot better for me than the original album

The new Gunn-Truscinski record is phenomenal.

really liked it, love the very stretched-out pieces and that it gets pretty noisy at times. wasn't steve in magik markers or am i making that up?

I didn't know he was, but it sounds like he might have been with them, at least temporarily in 2006. I found a reference in a Tiny Mix Tapes round-up of the band's 2006:

Of course, this means The Magik Markers just improved upon its old heady tricks. I don't know if she kisses her mother with them sailor lips, but Elisa sure spits some inspired post-Beat, stream-of-consciousness poetry when the moon is up and the bar lights are dimmed. Shards of feedback, drone, and fractured chords sprout from Elisa's doctored guitar. Breaking the third wall, Elisa often uses the audience to her advantage, letting them surround her and strum her guitar to heighten the sense of bedlam. Nolan keeps the band grounded, doing the rhythm-devil thing on his pimped kit. At times, Nolan threw dynamite into the fire with tape loops and pre-recorded hiss. Newly added axe-slinger Steve Gunn also threw down some meaty, dissonant guitar riffage for the Markers' summer tour.

ha, i don't think i knew that. he's not on any MM records is he?

New G-T Duo is so good. If you ordered the physical LP you'll get to read a short thing I wrote on the obi-strip. wow!

I saw that! Pretty cool. Will always take your word if you say it's good. Though if you said it sucked I'd be REALLY curious to check out that obi.

Sadly I only got the CD version, so no obi for me. Is your write up posted anywhere else?

Love this new album. Do the earlier ones sound this way too? I swear I gave one a try a while back and wasn't super into it. But now I can't remember.

xp don't think the essay is posted anywhere at the moment? don't worry, you're not missing too much ...

and yeah, this isn't a huge departure for them — a few tracks here are a little creamier than previous things, but nothing too radically different.

Gunn was on two different Magic Markers releases from 2007 according to discogs- which I’m now keen on hearing.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/steve-gunn-other-you

Might try this one.

Despite my ambivalence toward his last solo effort.

I like it. It’s not a major departure but I do like it more than the last album.

i am always rooting for gunn but man this is some soft ass shit

Haha, that sums up my thoughts on the last one. I'll give this a listen.

Yeah, I really like most of his work but the 2019 solo album left me cold and the reviews for this new one so far don't convince me it will be much different.

I liked his last solo album. Excited to hear this one

Spoke too soon, this new one is lovely. I really like it.

Ok. That's encouraging. I've not got round to it yet.

It's really hard to put my finger on what makes this so much more inviting than Unseen since much of it is still largely in the same vein, but it really is. I was won over fairly early on, but the instrumental track with Mary Lattimore is so beautiful that it took the record to a whole new level.

The guy is probably really beat up about Chapman. I feel bad for him.

As far as the albums go I really miss the loose jammy-ness of the first couple of records in his more recent stuff, but I haven't heard this one yet.

Yeah that instrumental track toward the end of the album was a surprising highlight.

is it just me or does the vocal on "Reflection" sound autotuned to shit?

Got the new one. I'm on first listen and I already like it. It's just more atmospheric (?) than the last one. Dunno. But a good thing.

I’d like to sink comfortably into the smooth acoustic groove web this guy weaves but something is just so grating. A song and a half is the most I can stand

I ate an edible and this album rules

<3

"tommy's congo" = song of the decade

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, August 9, 2018 4:01 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-london

this must've been some show