honestly what would be cool if they just released live gigs like a dead type thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
also boy did i sleep on the sunwatchers record holy smokes!!!!
Sunwatchers rule, as does that record! Amazing energy in that band.
― grandavis, Friday, 5 April 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
yeah it's super vibey ...still need to check out the latest sunwatchers. first two were great.
― tylerw, Friday, 5 April 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
this album could really throw a person into a melancholic smoke sesh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
kinloch nelson is so good, as is sunwatchers. sunwatchers are incredibly good live also btw
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 6 April 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
Kinloch Nelson LP is super sweet but just discovered that my two favorite songs on it were written by the other guy
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 6 April 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
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
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
thanks for the link....that's awesome you got to see him....
20 people :(
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
Glenn Jones was one of them :)
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
you couldn't ask for a better, nicer figurehead for american primitive :)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the tip on the WFMU interview—listening now. Marcus from DFBM shared a link a few weeks back to an interview he did on the Fretboard Journal podcast, it was pretty good if you all haven't heard that one yet either.
― Neal Cassady, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
I wld like to join ums and Byron Coley in rating the new Isasa album Insilio. it initially sounds squarely in the Fahey-Jones-Rose lineage, but there is more space in it, some lovely light accompaniments, it all sounds really gorgeous, & there's that rare lightness of touch to it - it slowly opens up
here's a nice older video of him playing outdoors that will sort you right out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2V3XAdTcY
https://isasa.bandcamp.com/
― ogmor, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
That video / song is really nice, thanks for posting it Ogmor. I am a total sucker for cicadas too, so definitely a bonus factor for me.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
yeah he had such calm, kind way about him at 1000 rose fest, good spirit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
also i was very happy to see Marcus put one of my songs on the Dying for Bad Music Spring Pick 2019 Soundcloud mix...tons of great stuff much better than mine on here (url says fall but its spring)
https://soundcloud.com/dyingforbadmusic/sets/fall-picks-2018
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
That video makes me very jealous of people with peaceful suburban backyards. As someone from one that now lives in a pretty beautiful semi-peaceful urban residential area without a designated backyard, that scenario is just that much more ideal and nostalgic for me.
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Nice going, ums! Great tune!!
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
this thread is an embarrassment of riches; thank you all!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
another discovery i'm really into is Dwight Diller, a clawhammer banjo player, he's got tons of stuff on youtube including some instructional DVD clips and a TON of albums on Bandcamp....really love his style....almost like a bridge between traditional playing and what Nathan Bowles does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5cIOl14ps
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
He's got a solid album on spotify; digging it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
Just put up a set of mine that is a duo improv with Jon Collin. Jon definitely touches more on this thread than I do (I am a big fan and love all of his playing, but some of it is more adjacent to here than the rest). For those who have been on this journey with me for a while you may get a kick out of it. Definitely goes "out" but I am really happy with it, cool to get to play with Jon. My set above with Jordan Perry is probably more most folks speed though. A lot of straight guitar playing on that one. But yeah, have at it if this kinda thing is interesting to you. Promise not to bomb the thread with more stuff for some time, just thought these particular sets were cool (as everyone should go check out Jordan and Jon's work if you aren't familiar):
https://daisqueue.bandcamp.com/track/jon-collin-and-davis-salisbury-duo-at-the-mercury-theater-4-13-2019
― grandavis, Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
Also, that UMS tune from the DFBM mix is sounding really nice on a sunny day over here. Nice to see it rolled out with such good company.
― grandavis, Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
always like to hear what folks are up to
xpostthanks! appreciate it :) it's incredible how marcus tracks all these random soundcloud ppl down alongside with more known ppl like bikoff etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Yeah Marcus rules. Dedicated and always digs up something cool I have never heard before.
― grandavis, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
gonna try to rep the peter lang 'dharma blues' with some bade cover art and some truly loathsome DI'd yamaha acoustic pickup sound going. actually some great stuff on it, his chops are hot, the songwriting is great, and if you can overlook the CDR digipak feel to the whole thing there are things to love here.
he's one of the most melodic of these original takoma geniuses. he had to stop doing music professionally in the 80s and went to be a computer animator/programmer i think? i'd love to read more about what these sorts of guys getting resurrected musically on tompkins square and whatnot did for their non-musical lives. i'm sure it's fantastic for them to get a little late-life appreciation, not that lang was ever super obscure as far as these things go. outside of the people who read this thread though he kind of is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oisxIINYBo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityxip8zODg
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 9 May 2019 06:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA5p_bulwVw
Finally bought the Sarah Louise in lossless and it's beautiful. Looking forward to seeing her in a couple of weeks.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 12 May 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
not normally one to plug my own stuff, but can break the news that I have an LP coming on a very cool psych label in Virgina: http://www.sunriseoceanbender.com/
here are some teasers of the sleeve art, pretty excited. i wish i could share the rest of the art because they did awesome work, but there will be plenty of time. no firm date on release yet
https://i.imgur.com/4pxRX9l.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UmIs22P.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
That's awesome! Looking forward to it overall.
― Evan, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
that rules, sunrise ocean bender is a great label
― adam, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
That’s awesome. Play in Chicago and let me (and whoever I can put together) open for you! 😀Tell u what, if/when I have stuff to plug please believe I will be plugging it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
fuck yeah that looks great
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
very exciting brigade cru news : )
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
yeah global! congrats, psyched to hear it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
That's awesome! Can't wait to hear it.
Really digging that Kinloch Nelson album right now, that almost Neil Young vibe it strikes on a few songs is right up my alley.
Also really excited to dig into a recent (unexpected) Fahey find. I was browsing around Barnes & Noble over the weekend, idly flipping through the CD racks and found a copy of God, Time and Causality.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
just saw that nyc taper has a recent kinloch nelson show to check out: http://www.nyctaper.com/2019/05/kinloch-nelson-april-8-2019-troost/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
global's album is so good I'm excited for you all to hear it. *spoilers* while it varies quite a bit over the album the sound is consistently subtly gorgeous, the textures well-worn to perfection; it's an incredibly comfortable and familiar album to inhabit, and it's tied together with a lot of tasty delay, but he pulls off the all-time #1 trick of covering a lot of ground and incorporating a lot of different streams while sounding more & more like himself. there's one big uncanny dance of the inhabitants>>?????? moment of sublime transcendence which feels like your brain folding in on itself that has been v pleasantly haunting my thoughts ever since I heard it
― ogmor, Thursday, 16 May 2019 09:18 (five years ago) link
congrats tetraglobs, fine news indeed
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Thursday, 16 May 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
Going to see Sarah Louise tonight.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Excited.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
Yeah, should be good. I like the few tracks I've sampled.
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
Very psyched to hear Global's record. Thanks for that rundown Ogmor, a good primer (pretty much all sounds exactly up my alley).
― grandavis, Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Same
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
I liked Lang's "Lost on the Chainbridge Road" a lot.
Also, Sarah Louise was lovely. More singing and keyboards than I expected. Really nice washed-out 12-string electric sound.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
New House and Land song is v nice.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 27 May 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
a little roundup of some recent/recommended items — https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/05/30/transfigurations-2019-recent-recommended-guitar-soli/
― tylerw, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
That roundup was nice Tyler. A couple of favorites and some new ones too. Obviously I am a Jon Collin fan (as per one of my recent posts) but also I can take all of that kinda M. Morley action that he can put out. I like this mode of his way more than the solo drone records he's been doing lately (which are fine but not this compelling imo). I mean, as a Dead C fan I am wired for it, but that distilled and simplified version really really works for me. You also do a good job of concisely summing up why!
― grandavis, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link