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

I consider myself a novice w/r/t all things this thread is for, but one of my most played and loved albums of this year is Matt LaJoie's 'Everlasting Spring'. Anyone have any recommendations with a similar vibe? Is his previous work as good?

He / his label has gotten so prolific I have trouble keeping up, but I do know that every Herbcraft release I've heard was great. (LaJoie is / was in Herbcraft.)

His previous official solo album The Center and the Fringe is wonderful, too: https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-center-and-the-fringe

I don't know if this will be similar vibe-y enough, but it feels of the same universe to me. I've been obsessed with Ezra Feinberg's Recumbent Speech the past couple of weeks: https://ezrafeinberg.bandcamp.com/album/recumbent-speech

Rather than keep naming stuff, I'll get out of the way, because there are lots of people on this thread that will have perfect recommendations for you. :)

not familiar with LaJoie, just listened sounds great

Chuck Johnson has gradually transformed from a fingerstyle player to basically full on ambient soundscapes....I think Velvet Arc catches him in a midpoint on that journey that you would like. Would also say Crows in the Basilica is just an amazing album as is Blood Moon Boulder, when he was more straight acoustic

another guy I think falls through the cracks a bit is Alexander Turnquist, his album Flying Fantasy is beautiful and meditative, it's not like Lajoie exactly but might give you similar feelings

there's more will think and post later

Croz big ups Matthew Rolin!!

Actually pretty good ....write some more https://t.co/Twu5L1dfXW

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) July 23, 2020

wonder if croz and fahey ever crossed paths, and if they did, how much they hated each other instantly.

just asked him on Twitter, see if he responds!

can we just get him to post in this thread, though?

getting Croz to be on ILX would complete my life's work

lol yes

Not listened to much Fahey-adjacent stuff in a while but glad I was here for the Matt LaJoie recommendation - lovely record and right in my 'ringing guitarscapes' sweet spot.

In terms of similar sounds, I'd say Dean McPhee would be as good a place as any to start - try Son of the Black Peace (particularly Cloud Forest). I think Scott Tuma would work, too - Not for Nobody is just glorious.

I love Scott Tuma. Also, shout out to those early Boxhead Ensemble records, which sat in a really nice guitar zone for a while there.

Just also noting how wild it is that this thread is SIX YEARS OLD and was started because the original thread got too long and folks decided we should start a new one (which is now really long ....)

I have spent a lot of time with many of you, thanks for being good and enthusiastic listeners and sharers of music. As corny as it sounds, this (and the original thread) have meant a lot to me over the years. Some very good folks in here.

Indeed, good thread, good music. Thanks all.

I have almost posted a few times over the past several months that maybe it's time for post-Fahey thread part III ... this one is getting long (no idea how it compares to part I)

Thanks Alpine and UMS, everyone for the recs!

time for a new thread: The Approaching of the ILX Void vs Stomping Tonight On the Takoma/Tompkins Square Border vs Fare Forward Voyagers (ilxor's choice)

anyone mentioned mark mcguire in the 'ringing guitarscapes' category? he's got a pretty varied approach, but some of it definitely fits.

not really in that category, but good for this thread — i've been loving this one ... https://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/duets/ — basically long jams in the sandy bull / billy higgins vein.

also! this guy, who recently passed away, was on the imaginational private press comp, but the whole record is amazing, just beautiful:

https://www.discogs.com/Herb-Moore-Hinterlands/release/13028354

also! this one is coming out on vinyl via feeding tube, too, but it's a pay what you want download over yonder — really nice spacey stuff

https://blackdirt.bandcamp.com/album/natch-9-wednesday-knudsen-willie-lane

Bless this thread and all who dwell herein.

I loved Herb Moore's track 'Wen Also Found' on the Imaginational Anthem record. Will have to track Hinterlands down.

yeahhhh, if you liked that track, you'll love the rest of it.

https://caliche.bandcamp.com/album/steve-gunn-tom-carter-shawn-mcmillen-live-in-nyc

Steve Gunn, Tom Carter, & Shawn McMillen "Live In NYC" covering JJ Cale (Cryin' Eyes), The Dead (Wharf Rat), and I think MV&EE (Summer Magic) buried in cassette fidelity.

nice!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-peter-lang039s-medical-expenses

pretty sad, fuck this country. he has been ailing for so long and it's just one thing after another

poor Peter:(

Ideas of Beginnings by Mark McGuire

Old news but I finally got around to listening to this whole album from 2017. I really like it: good mix of fingerpicked acoustic material and what sounds like delayed ringing electric stuff.

lost genius with a 1984 album on kicking mule, still active as of 2012

https://youtu.be/XmNJrPqegiA

hoping for an embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNJrPqegiA&feature=youtu.be

Very nice... looks like she might be focused on painting more recently?

https://www.samweis1.net/

Yeah, that was really nice.

for the embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNJrPqegiA

bought one of the last copies of Powers/Rolin Duo....this is a seriously blissed out ride, one of the best things in this kinda genre I've heard for a while...get it before it's gone

https://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/powers-rolin-duo/

(believe it's been mentioned upthread but wanted to include link - i got mine from rolin himself so track him down on twitter if you can't get it from feeding tube)

I love it

This Powers/Rolin is killing me right now. Thanks for the recommendation.

thanks for turning me on to Sam Weis by the way; I don't care for the vocals but the guitar is outrageous.

i think she pivoted to more singer songwritery stuff like a lot of folks in the late 70s/80s... the album 'hologram' is all instrumental and what i have. surely in a bargain bin somewhere near you! my copy was even still sealed :(

did you get that at homestead pickin' parlor? feels like something that would be there

yep, i've found a ton of great stuff there, including this, got it on cover alone and was rewarded. and no, it's not called 'kick ass guitar'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bShsZvjWOQ

Septober Energy
3 weeks ago
You know a record didn't sell as well as hoped when the promo copies are about as common as the retail copies. Seems that was the case with just about all of these early Embryo releases.

lol that is so otm re: promo copies

Whoa that Sandy Nassan shit is wild, I am into it. Hyper-strumming is kind of a fascination, and not that many people do it very often. Into it.

Did I note that I was into it ....

the first track is far and away the best bit of it. i love his vocalizations and sighs throughout

Holy fuck

i saw someone on rym compare this to bill orcutt and i get that but this sounds like something different to me

that shit is like acoustic metal. holy fucking hell.

I found it all enjoyable enough, but yeah that first track (and some of the stuff towards the end of the record) was pretty "out" in a way I enjoyed. I definitely get the Orcutt comparison, while of course not being a direct one, but the energy and ability to ride the line of feeling ready to go out of control but never quite going all the way there. Pretty fun for a solo guitar record.

yeah, this is badass.

hearing some richard bishop in the first track for sure

yeah was gonna say reminds me more of bishop's middle eastern surf guitarism than orcutt

which hits my sweet spot squarely. i like his "breathers".