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

yeah def the same vibe w/o the proto-loop pedal stuff gimmer did

also Kinloch Nelson def proto-2019 hipster dude swag, that hat is nice

Apparently dude is coming to play Rhizome in DC w/ Max Ochs:

http://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2019/4/12/concert-kinloch-nelson-max-ochs

Which by the way I now so happen to spend most of my time in DC.

hi grandavis, I was thinking abt you the other day cuz I read this cool book on Charlottesville music history where you are briefly mentioned:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/rich-tarbell/regarding-charlottesville-music-an-oral-history/paperback/product-23797621.html

max ochs was....pretty rough at 1000 rose fest

Certainly lower stakes at Rhizome. A pleasant way to spend a night but I mean a lot of the time the music is really really great. Maybe Max and Kinloch will be on that night (assuming I can make it, which is not always the case ....)

And hey Sleeve! I have not read, or gotten a copy of, that book yet, but I may get one some day. I know a lot of the folks in it of course, and lived through chunks of it, but as I was not interviewed for it it has kind of been off of my radar. As my bandmate got interviewed I imagine he is the one who mentioned me, but who knows? I was at a lot of shows at a lot of places over the years, but more directly I have booked shows there on and off for many many years and played in bands etc., so who knows? Oddly enough you are the only person who has mentioned that I am in it hah hah. I had no idea!

I know this is not directly related to the "usual stuff" that makes its way here, but I love when Michael Morley (Dead C of course) floats out these completely zoned out minimal acoustic guitar albums:

https://thinwrist.bandcamp.com/album/heavens-idleness-awaits

I mean this is right up my alley for all kinds of reasons, but a lot of it is the endless cycling simplicity of it. A hard trick to pull off (i.e., that trick holding gravity throughout) but it completely works for me.

gd you were mentioned as the person "mostly" responsible for keeping the Pudhouse together :)

gonna bump this other thread if u wanna talk some more

This Week in Charlottesville, VA.

also I gotta check that Morley out!

Hah hah well yes for a stretch I very much was. My official term for much of that time was "the sucker on the lease." I have to get some work done but I will try to go pick that thread up later when I get a chance. Thanks for the heads up that I made it into the book, though there was an odd side of me that hoped I had someone been so under the radar that I didn't make it at all hah hah.

I love the Morley, but I mean I am a sucker for most of what he has done so I am a bit biased.

Hah hah, just realized that the title of the Morley song you can stream literally uses "gravity" in its title (a term I used to describe his music myself before realizing this). Man, guess I listen to a lot of Morley, it is ingrained.

this popped up on youtube for me...it's probably been posted before but I missed it...Rockapalast 78 Fahey performance he's in good form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKS_JCK6ok

Thanks, this is great.

Fake clapping and/or edited for time at 15:22

Oh wait I see why it's like that... anyway it's jarring to cut to the audience and see none of the clapping heard!

classic fahey combover

only vaguely familiar with this (very prolific) guy, but I was really enjoying this one today: https://earlymusic.bandcamp.com/album/water-and-rock-music-volume-2
super spare guitar work + field recordings ... well worn formula, maybe, but done really well, deeply felt.

Fahey: worst dressed/groomed great artist ever?

Anthony Pasquarosa's Morning Meditations is really nice for the whole guitar-recorded-outside-with-nature-bleeding-in thing, too.

i think i'm doing a collaborative set with early music fella soonish

Nice Fahey clip

Pretty sure I have posted some Jon Collin before (or certainly mentioned him)? Not that it matters if I have, I just love Jon's playing and figure I must have mentioned him at some point. Really cool to see live, and a cool player in that his electric and acoustic playing both work really well for me.

Global, I am doing a collaborative set with him as well in Baltimore. He is trying to do a whole string of duo sets in which he plays with a different collaborator in each stop of the tour. Very cool you are doing so too! We can compare notes.

i like that idea -- i wanted to do that! only i am drummer -- it seems totally conceivable that i could find people to play with between (here) and (there) regardless of where here and there are

xp yeah i'm sure you've mentioned him before -- just one of those guys I've known of vaguely without really diving in.
and yeah, i like the idea of different collabs in different cities ...

people have to be comfortable with the idea of winging it but i find this idea very appealing.

i haven’t listened to him before, and i’m not planning on changing that at this point! going in perfectly blank slate

Hah hah, more power to you Global! I mean I wing it pretty much 100% of the time so I am in a lot of ways way more comfortable with that than playing "songs" at this point. Definitely one of my favorite things to do is improvise with someone for the first time, such an interesting space to enter musically.

La Lechera, it is a cool idea for sure. If you ever decide to go down that road you should let us folks here know.

i will! i am seriously thinking about it, looking at mid-late june or early july!!

just saw this on facebook:

Hey Twin Cities music folks, my old friend Jesse Sheppard's band is touring the upper Midwest and their gig in Minneapolis on Thursday, April 11, got canceled due to venue structural issues. They're a great psych/folk instrumental duo called Elkhorn and they're just looking for a slot in an appropriate venue that evening. Message me here if there's anything available that you know of and I can put you in touch with them. Thanks!

new elkhorn (two albums out next month) = totally killer

oh damn I think global was playing that

we're working on it, maybe eagle's club

Haven't floated one of these out in a while, but I am pretty into how this set came out. Plus, there is plenty of acoustic fingerstyle guitar played (though not by me hah hah). Duo improv set with the excellent Jordan Perry:

https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/album/jordan-perry-davis-salisbury-duo-live-3-2-2019

new chris forsyth streaming. i dunno but i have found the last few a bit workmanlike. i like the rawer stuff where it feels like he's trying to see what sticks. 'solar motel' is his top album IMO

Yeah, feel this too for the most part. Actually think Paranoid Cat might be my favorite ....

I liked Intensity Ghost too but it felt that was the realization of his thing in a polished way as good as it could be done

diminishing returns after that

Solar Motel def my fav

i dig 'em all, i think — new one has some very great moments (especially the latter half)

lol ok for all my shit talk so far I'm really digging the new one....Dreaming the Non Dream didn't quite connect w/me for whatever reason...

i didn't get to the last half, although i've found it hard to connect to stuff on the NPR first listen thing for whatever reason. i'll definitely give it another try

btw word on the streetz is that forsyth is coming to mpls soon w/a wild one-off all star band more to come

Yeah after listening my feelings are pretty similar to the last couple of records. The less the songs try to rock the more I like them. Like, "The Past Ain't Passed" I like a lot, but I don't get too much outta the vocal / rock tunes. Just something about the feel that leaves me a little cold, but I get why folks dig them and imagine they open up live quite a bit.

yeah the singing is...passable at best

Rosali is cool, and her recent record is great. But yeah I don't need to hear Chris sing.

honestly what would be cool if they just released live gigs like a dead type thing

also boy did i sleep on the sunwatchers record holy smokes!!!!

Sunwatchers rule, as does that record! Amazing energy in that band.

also, back to the thread's mission....the Kinloch Nelson record is up on streaming now, I need to get this...this is up there with discoveries like Gimmer, Bikoff or Cromarty for me....wow it's gorgeous and singular

yeah it's super vibey ...
still need to check out the latest sunwatchers. first two were great.

this album could really throw a person into a melancholic smoke sesh

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