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

Will this be the new fahey brigade meme? How many of us can get primitivism stars to play at our weddings?

Tom Lecky wrote a song about the place I got married! Does that count?

(I think I've mentioned him on here. He records as Hallock Hill. The Union and A Hem of Evening are both stellar. https://hallockhill.bandcamp.com/album/a-hem-of-evening )

anyone heard this?

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/morning-trip/products/william-eaton-music-by-william-eaton-lp

Yes, I have an original copy and it's a prized possession. Happy for a reissue so I don't have to play my copy so much. It's nowhere near as new-agey as the description and photos of the instruments would suggest (though I can't say the same for the few of his later albums and collaborations I have heard, which are nice enough depending on your tolerance for, umm, Narada Equinox and the like). I'd compare the music to that Gimmer Nicholson album in some ways. I mean, they sound nothing alike (except both albums share, to my ears, a slight classical bent), but it has a similar "third way" quality about it that makes it seem very much apart from anything that came before it. There's zero blues and zero folk. As far as I remember, it's all improvised, and mostly with homemade instruments. You should grab it, it's pretty amazing.

thanks!

i had both the fall and Fahey lined up in separate tabs, so for the first minute of "hip priest" i thought it was fahey, and entered an terrifying alternate universe for as a result. Thanks ILM! nice to be back.

Joseph Allred, who we've talked about upthread, posted this video today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZrHAK5iDQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3LbSH_RjtB9CU26V5S2UwsXNdMCk0-XQWRpcbHcfi5z4MZF5_QSI7T0Sg

fun(?) fact(s): he played at my wedding, which was in Cades Cove and which inspired this suite!

he's so great, that's an awesome story about your wedding! do you know him?

many of you will already be aware but a certain steve palmer's album useful histories has been released on some v hot looking vinyl and it's a heady fusion of psych jams & takomaish picking with some wild delay pedal action and it's a work of major genius so if the big man won't post about it here then it's my solemn duty to ensure it gets a mention!

https://stevepalmer-sob.bandcamp.com/

Allred is such a sweet guy

Our man Global really knocked it out of the park on this record, Ogmor is completely on the money here. Everything I have heard from it is beautiful and deeply rendered, just really well synthesized moves and approaches to "shit that sounds great for a guitar to get up to." Proud of our dude for getting this out there.

awww, thanks you all <3 <3

Useful Histories is fantastic, turned out so well

Hoping to hear some Cassini moves down the line. Quite a crew in that band! But yeah just ordered my copy of "Useful Histories" today.

Inspires me to get something out there as well, someday! Fantastic record

he's so great, that's an awesome story about your wedding! do you know him?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 7, 2020 6:22 PM

yes! he's a longtime bud

cool yeah I think he's one of the best right now, seems like a real gentleman

in other news, Krist Novoselic of an old Seattle band called Nirvana dabbles in American Primitive, pretty good!

https://youtu.be/ExOFuzZr-tE

seems relevant

Jim White and I made this record together and I’m so excited to finally get to share it with you. Release date is in May, preorder here - https://t.co/O0SqNpiKas
Cover image by Anna White pic.twitter.com/jiffh757VX

— Marisa anderson (@Marisamusic) February 28, 2020

OMG OMG OMG YES

What we’ve all been wasting for!!! And released in May, the best month! Anticipating.

Just listened to a couple of Marisa Anderson records this weekend. I have no doubts this will be great, definitely looking forward to it (and would LOVE to see this live, hopefully we all get a chance at some point)

so excited two of my fav musicians on the planet together

If anyone needs some listening today, the two tracks available for streaming here are really nice:

https://waterlesshills.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mountain-lp

C Joynes on guitar and DBH on violin with a rhythm section. C Joynes is a great and tasteful player, but really delivers this for me is DBH's fiddle, really expressive and beautiful playing. I imagine that the whole record delivers (unfortunately sold out despite not even being officially "released" yet).

oh wow cool combo, C Joynes is one of those players that probably doesn't get enough attention on the scene

yeah i'm digging waterless hills!
finally really got into that Matthew J Rolin record from late last year and it's very strong, too.

has there been a proper DBH record lately?

i think the last one was Mass (2017-ish) ... but I could be wrong there.

also — do we think "The Quickening" is a reference to Highlander or Art Bell? OR BOTH.

Chuck Johnson/Golden Retriever collab coming up on Thrill Jockey:

http://thrilljockey.com/products/rain-shadow

will have to check the waterless hills. as I mentioned upthread dbh has been playing a couple of looser almost bossa nova-ish pieces, v keen to see where that leads. speaking of which, I am v excited to learn that fabiano do nascimento has got a new album coming out in may, all original compositions, featuring collaborations with.... madlib?!

https://www.nowagainrecords.com/announcing-fabiano-do-nascimento-preludio/

produced by Mario C! interesting.

can't front on that

heyo — https://shop.realgonemusic.com/products/robbie-basho-songs-of-the-great-mystery-2-lp?_pos=1&_sid=f97a1f36a&_ss=r

new william tyler for the soundtrack to First Cow; sounds great on first contact
https://open.spotify.com/album/0tR03kuqV6R2AVIRjE9g5h?si=Vu-g9_7DSKe4kvWdVVY3kw

C Joynes is one of those players that probably doesn't get enough attention on the scene

Yes, i have always loved his stuff. He was doing this thing last year where he was re-upping old OOP releases of his to bandcamp for pay what you want. I followed along all year.

Similarly I have been thinking about Evan Miller recently—does anyone remember him? Before he did that more 'out' record in 2009 called Transfigurations On Lap-Steel Guitar, he had a couple tape only ones on Night People throughout 2007 and 2008, and it was all really good. I don't think he was ever included on those early Imaginational Anthem releases either, though the timing seems perfect for that to have happened.

He's also got this reworking of Furry Lewis' Turn Your Money Green on Beeswax Ephemera (2007) that feels pretty ahead of it's time looking back on it, with some blown out electric guitar soloing towards the end that fades out into some collage stuff. Some of his material is on youtube, but here's a blog post with mp3's for my fav Night People one, Three Spells For Six String Guitar:

https://the-mesmerist.tumblr.com/post/38308167155/evan-miller-three-spells-for-six-string-guitar/amp

Aw man, I guess those streamable mp3s for Three Spells For Six String Guitar are dead now. Anyway, I just spent this morning listening to all the stuff of his I've collected over the years so I'll just share my own link below—please enjoy, all of this has been out of print for a long time. I wonder what he has been up to recently.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tic4gm5dgaelloo/AACK7ufcI9cPrM-PyspplLD-a?dl=0

I need to check that Evan Miller out. Sounds very much up my alley.

First track for this is now live:

https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/the-quickening

Really looking forward to listening to this record.

ooooooooh that track
so good!! his drumming is kinda busy but i like it

It's funny I wasn't expecting busy drumming either for some reason but it is cool!

i kinda was -- his playing with Xylouris is super busy! I like/feel his restlessness.

the Jim White/Nina Nastasia record is absolutely classic, he's pretty busy on that but it works

Nice series of improvs at sunrise and sunset by Toby Hay as part of "inhabiting our current moment in time / history":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zFazYfTfo&fbclid=IwAR3Em0mwVyBj9BwgrlOwOLM5ja8guaBYYad5GgmtJisKB3OpWaNJn0da82s

First two installments are very nice. Really like his playing a lot.

tom carter is doing an instagram live set right now
@tubbyskingston

not sure where else to post this, but that new jim elkington arrived in the mail the other day and it's not anything except wonderful. i love him ever so much.

oh nice i was excited for that but I forget so much stuff that I was thinking about prior to lockdown

Steve Palmer's on this thread, right? Because "Statesboro Day" is absolutely one of my favorite songs of the year. nice work!

yeah I'm digging that Steve Palmer record

new live xylouris white -- haven't listened yet but the last time i saw them was so great, would gladly relive in recorded form!!!
https://xylouriswhiteshop.bandcamp.com/album/xylouris-white-zebulon-april-22-2019

nice! and xylouris white ringtone too! https://xylouriswhiteshop.bandcamp.com/track/xylouris-white-ringtone