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

Just digging into IA 7 now, but looking forward to it.

McPhee came up in the original thread. I have been hot and cold on what I have heard, but when it works for me I really like it. Seems he gets a little more "out" here and there, and that is what I respond to, but some of it was a little too "purely moody" and not much else for me. I think I need to listen to more to have a real opinion though.

yeah the dronier bits are maybe what I'm responding to here -- one of 'em is a pretty great fripp/eno evening star kinda epic.

Ohh that sounds promising. I am definitely a sucker for droney guitar (obviously).

you guys see this?
http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/fahey-john-record-plant-sausalito-ca-september-9th-1973-cd/KH.9039CD.html
legit?
keyhole looks they traffic in grey area releases...

and speaking of the man, if you never got your past comes back to haunt you, dust to digital is selling it for the low low price of $45
http://www.dust-digital.com/fahey/
totally worth the bucks.

probably not legit, I might have that show from a D!ME upload

yeah everyone should have it in one form or another, it is amazing

dust to digital is selling it for the low low price of $45

holy shit!
thanks for the tip

The John Fahey Handbook Volume 2 has been out for a few weeks. Goes into deep detail about his discography.. 500 pages deep. The author chimed in on Yahoo that it's a print-on-demand book, and ships from overseas, with hopes that the price will go down like the first volume has.

The John Fahey Handbook Volume 2

ah good to know...and yeah, please bring the price down!

Wow really enjoying the Christoph Bruhn tune on IA7. Don't think I have seen that dudes name come up before, but that is a really pleasant tune (and I mean that in all sincerity and not as a "slight" thing).

is this the kind of thread in which we would talk about ilyas ahmed

http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/i-am-all-your-own/

it is and we did

Grandavis - I've mentioned him a couple of times, he's great. I had posted a link to a live duet recording he did w Kyle F. at a library in mpls

Oh man I somehow missed it. Thanks UMS, I'll try to dig back through and take a listen. As stated, good stuff.

yeah i like the Bruhn stuff I've heard -- think him and Fosburgh are planning on hitting the road for house concerts later this year.

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STORY TIME WITH SIR RICHARD BISHOP: REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF TANGIER SESSIONS!
From the mind (and hands!) of one of the most brilliant guitar players of any generation, Sir Richard Bishop, comes the excellent Tangier Sessions! Yeah, February 17th sees the release of Bishop's newest album, finely and finally delivered to the fervent hands of noble devotees everywhere! SRB's wide ranging, maxi-cultural influences are on full display within Tangier Sessions' outwardly expanding compositions, delivering unparalleled depth of sound from within the comforting confines of a six-string. Oh, but what a six-string! This guitar is of the ancient, parlour variety - and for Rick or anyone we've yet to encounter, it's origins are eerily puzzling. Yet, it's symbiosis with Sir Richard has resulted in a stone-cold classic album of acoustic explorations!

The basic concept of such an album alone should have you salivating (it's all over our keyboard, too), but hold up - there's more to it! How often do we get the chance to truly demystify such a magic set of songs? How often do you hear tale of how an album this intriguing came to be, straight from the horse's mouth? And how often does that mouth belong to a horse as seductive as Sir Richard Bishop? Not too often, player, so listen up, cause Rick Bishop's got something to say about the origin and creation not only of Tangier Sessions the album, but of the unique instrument which enchanted him so deeply as to drive him to record it.

And now, for the complete story! It's a mysterious tale that begins in Geneva, Switzerland, deals in the art of possession (both tangible and demonic), and ultimately ends this very moment, with the "royal we" wishing to hear more sounds from Tangier Sessions ... take it away, Sir Rick:

WATCH SIR RICHARD BISHOP TALK GUITAR AND TANGIER SESSIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2p5j3EajWI&feature=youtu.be

cool story, weirdly i was just gonna post my new guitar which is MUCH less valuable but inspired by those old slothead parlors (though I believe this is an 00 body not a 0 parlour)...but yeah the recording king ROS-06, (fahey famously played a recording king but this is a new company that's brought the label back). but it's the same slothead, thick neck, no fret markers type thing....liking it so far, like the 1 13/16 nut little more room for fingerpicking

http://postimg.org/image/fvk62s1kn/

http://s23.postimg.org/r7wrkka9n/guitar_2.jpg

Nice looking guitar! Think I would dig these (like the parlor-size body).

schnazzy... someday i will get a new acoustic guitar. i've had mine since 1993!
in ILX brigade breaks big news, just saw that steve gunn will be opening for wilco this summer at Red Rocks!
did not think that would be the venue I'd finally get to catch the dude at.

Woah. Red Rocks not a bad local for that at all.

That's awesome for him
I think his newer stuff will go over well with the Wilco crowd

The recording king is not spendy. Actually I think the originals were Sears catalog guitars

Oh and he and his band are SO good live I'm hoping/expecting they'll knock out the Wilco crowd there.

Wonder which version of the band he is gonna have? It is a fluid thing.

Nice guitar ums. BTW I've been listening to a heavy amount of classical guitar lately (but I'm not nerding out quite enough to start name dropping anyone). I have notable douche of '14 Kozelek to thank, but it's all due to his Admiral Fell Promises album (ENTIRELY different beast than Benji) establishing itself as my overall favorite record.

Love the idea of classical nylon string sound mingling with the Fahey style more than I've actually witnessed such a thing. I know Blackshaw played with it on Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death.

Wait that is a nylon string isn't it?

That's true- I figured the most recent line up that's been touring Way Out Weather was established for now.

xp

I am sure his band will be good regardless, but that quarted line-up with Meagher/Bowles/Elkington on board is definitely the one I would hope to see.

Elkington was particularly amazing to me! Very well matched to duet with Gunn. I'd hope he would be involved, too.

Bowles new record is great too since you mentioned him.

elkington is in tweedy's solo touring band, right?

Evan nope it's a steel string but the body dimensions are close to a classical and the neck is wide, somewhere between a conventional neck and a classical.

I really prefer smaller bodies, much more comfortable

Oh yeah, no doubt Bowles is ruling in many ways these days, and that record is a prime example. His recent live set here was so damn good, definitely go see him if you can. Psyched for that Black Twig Pickers & Steve Gunn record on the horizon too.

Yeah the Bowles record is really inspiring me to get serious about my poor, mostly neglected banjo which I DO have a ton of fun with.

yah bowles is the best

i just discovered that they make 6 string banjos that are tuned like a guitar, i was thinking of checking that out, love the sound but don't feel like learning the whole banjo tuning thing

Hah man just grab one of Metzger's 30 stringers (or whatever he has done to his custom ones). Surely he has a spare one he can loan out.

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Yeah I like the smaller body guitars for that reason, too.

Well either way my jumping off point about nylon guitar stylings stands. Would love to hear more records with that influence.

I was finding the banjo tuning hard to adapt to or experiment on, but as I got better at finger picking + experimented with other tunings it got much much more fun.

If anyone is looking for some afternoon listening, I just put up my latest Dais Queue live set. Lots of mellow prepared guitar stuff, but some guitar-as-guitar at the 17 minute mark or so. Pretty happy with it overall:

https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/dais-queue-live-1-28-2015

digging this, at about 15 mins now this has been nice workin tunes

Cool, thanks man. The "nice workin tunes" demographic is a good one for me I think.

only partially fahey folk but if anyone's in massachusetts or boston marissa nadler is playing a show on 3/7 with glenn jones and damon & naomi

Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux is now a part of Mind of Mirrors and their upcoming dates include some rad guests. New album was put out on Immune a couple days ago too.

Feb 2 - Detroit, MI - Trinosophes
Feb 4 - WFMU - The John Allen Show
Feb 5 - Brooklyn - Union Pool presented by Ad Hoc *
Feb 6 - Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda's presented by Bowerbird *
Feb 7 - Baltimore - 5th Dimension * w/ Bobby Donnie
Feb 8 - Durham - Pinhook presented by Rough Drift #
Feb 9 - Athens - The World Famous #
Feb 10 - Asheville - Mothlight #
Feb 11 - Nashville - Stone Fox #
Feb 12 - Louisville - tba #
Feb 13 - Bloomington - The Artifex Guild # w/ Tyler Damon
Feb 14 - Lafayette - The Spot #
Feb 15 - Chicago - Hideout # w / Lagartha
Feb 17 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club # presented by Acme Records
Feb 19 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill # w/ Phosphenes
Feb 20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry # w/ Steve Palmer
* w/ Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band // Horse Lords
# w/ Daniel Bachman

UMS I've always wanted one of those banjar/guitjo hybrid's, they sound great.

Evan you can always put a banjo in something like open c as well, it's really fun to play that way. After doing basic open g frailing and the like, I wound up playing it kinda like a 4 string guitar, thumbing the 4th and 2nd strings and doing single note hammers/bends with the 1st string, all the while heading up and hitting that drone string with your thumb every now and then. It's easy to do raga sounding stuff with that technique in open c. The tuning is gCGCE.

Nylon strings:
There's a guy on bandcamp who I've wanted to suggest for a bit now: Marcus Eads, he has some material written for classical guitar. His stuff is actually real nice, cleanly recorded and unhurried in approach. http://marcus-eads.bandcamp.com/album/sherburne-county-instrumentals

I also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.

Less Fahey, more flat out psych folk, but one of my old favorites, Cursillistas (now Herbcraft), always used a nylon guitar for his recordings.

Here is the early country blues artist Sylvester Weaver playing a six string banjo, recorded in 1927. He's the guy who recorded the first unaccompanied solo guitar tracks, lap style, in 1923.. huge influence on solo guitar and he's got such a wide range of playing styles. Him, his brother, and their childhood friends like BBQ Bob were all taught by Mrs. Weaver growing up in Georgia. His mother comes from the prior generation of unrecorded blues musicians, where as the Weavers and friends were of the first generation to be recorded.

"Six String Banjo Piece"
youtube.com/watch?v=GhjCi67ow3U

Before I go spouting too much nonsense :)
Having been born in KY, Sylvester is actually unrelated to the Curly/BBQ family lineage. The rest of still stands though.
I thought there were more examples of traditional six string banjo but haven't come up with anything, don't know who plays it on a current rekkid either.

I didn't know barbecue bob was taught by sylvester weaver's mum, that's wild

also remember a long time ago, in the old thread, someone dug up this album from the 70s, a female classical guitar player doing stuff in the vein of this thread. I distinctly remember the album having quite a few songs of synthesizer/classical guitar duet kind of stuff.
think this was her -- pretty nice stuff: http://www.discogs.com/Linda-Cohen-Leda/release/2345556

Marcus is great! I met him via Facebook recently, he lives in Minnesota and I hope to go see him soon, he's playing a rare show (said he hadn't played in a few years)

Nic Garcia, Kyle Fosburgh, and Matt Sowell had a show last night, all three of those guys played great

picked up Kyle's reissue of Robbie Basho - Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12 -- WOW

Thanks for the banjo suggestion, Neal! I've definitely been coming around to it more now that my finger picking is a bit better. I'll try open C, too!