show was a blast, so fun, felt great
and yeah schmidt explores new contexts of fahey's stuff and embodies the material with unique vigor, which is a totally fahey thing to do. i can see why fahey used him as his mimic for a few tracks
jamie said he was letting mind over mirrors sit for a little while after bellowing sun, i can see why- that is definitely the peak and of everything he had done prior seemed to be leading to that. his additions to the band were subtle but great (maybe partially due to the sound system at the venue but it settled in after a bit)
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
it was great, doug is such a great bassist him and arif from brokeback on drums gave it an almost krauty, motorik feel instead of classic rock
if i had one complaint is that the PA set up was vocals only, so nothing was mic'd and i wish i could have heard the keyboards better, he seemed to be doing some really cool stuff and i wished it would have cut through more
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
i'm sure it's relaxing to play a more supporting role/have a break after that -- it was a huge endeavor!
my only gripe about the show here is that the lineup (as advertised) provided 0 women the opportunity to be heard and seen playing music.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
neither did ours tbh :/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
smh :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
posted to the Fahey FB group, Holden Rush, young kid from Chapel Hill, really refined playerhttps://holdenruch.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-isms-in-an-american-primitive-style?fbclid=IwAR016K1LSM9GWifwBo3BjdFVhwppAfJDGw_h1ukUr6h7uno4MJd0J0hGI-8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
https://delta-slider.blogspot.com/2019/08/john-fahey-unissued-studio-sessions-1977.html?fbclid=IwAR0eZ3FwJcH4xt_gtXlWUVbHsWkGJF2vURjlviJRBGND973HqpcrNw8hwWk&m=1
!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
this is the holy grail
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
holy shit
― sleeve, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
I'm crying at my desk lol. it's beyond embarrassing how huge this is for me. I've been dreaming about these recordings for 16 years. and it starts with the softest possible version of melody mcbad/ananaias. oh man, my heart
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
had you read rumors about their existence before? this is all new to me....so far it's wonderful
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
lol @ ilx connection of 77 sessions
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
yeah the fahey site had the info, I'd mentioned them on ilx before. I need a lie down
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
this is beautiful stuff, so happy you got to hear it :)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
it's partly the fidelity of the tape but these don't sound at all like I imagined, there's this kind of gentle remove to them. he sounds so serene!
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
so nice — i should be seeing scott from delta slider soon, i will buy him a beer for all of us.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
what the hell is this bossa nova track?! it almost doesn't sound like fahey. has a bit of "the waltz that carried us away..." about it and then it becomes actual bossa nova (sort of)
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
xp tyler please do!
― sleeve, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
hare krishna 1 & bossa nova 2 are much more like I imagined: full blooded and bright and more rhythmic, with a slight Latin tinge a la sandy on earth. makes me daydream abt the parallel universe in which Fahey kept his health and his audience in the 80s and went off to make more south american influenced music
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
does anyone know who owns these recordings? the quality is so terrible I wonder if they could be cleaned up/if a better quality copy exists. would love a professional release
― ogmor, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
man there are some great moments in that long "melody brennan"
― tylerw, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
man this is great. definitely expands the vernacular he was operating in during this period. much like 'god time and causality' contains stuff unlike anything else he did.
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
This is very exciting to me
https://www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr336?fbclid=IwAR3zYd1RYApG6RPDKCfB6IZSWIvUzSa02F88cJGocJr2_YeSFvau8XauXQE
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 August 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
sounds great -- almost a cocteau twins vibe.
― tylerw, Monday, 5 August 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
it doesn't quite fit here or anywhere else but I think some of you would really enjoy the Kumio Kurachi album, Sound of Turning Earth that's been put out on Bison. he's been going for decades but this is his first release outside japan. very nimble, fresh, flowing playing with a clean sounding electric guitar using koto tunings. produced by jim o'rourke. the most beautiful CD packaging I've seen in a long time. been gradually growing on me.
https://bison-records.bandcamp.com/album/sound-of-turning-earth
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1225969011_10.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
This is fantastic!
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 19 August 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
I love that artwork.
― jmm, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
what do ppl make of the latest Hayden Pedigo album Valley of the Sun? he's got such a distinctive tone. this one is darker & has a lot more good atmospheric gumpth but still has that same gorgeous sleepy feel. not sure I like it quite as much as Greetings from Amarillo yet, but I came to really love that one over time.
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
Not a connoisseur of this subgenre by any stretch and I've yet to hear his previous releases but I quite like Valley of the Sun.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
somehow haven't checked out hayden's new one ... will have to fix that.
― tylerw, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
I feel like I never hear about his records until they've been out for a few months
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
keep coming back to Isasa's Insilio, it's so simple but there's a beguiling timelessness to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZakgIJw0B0
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
Psyched to see Isasa live this week and catch some of that beguiling timelessness in action! Really looking forward to it.
― grandavis, Monday, 19 August 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
^^yes—wish I could see it as well. everyone who can should try to catch him and Magic Tuber Stringband on their US tour. Evan and Courtney's MTSB material is v good.
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
there's been a dude named Jon Monday who worked at Takoma that's been posting some really cool stuff on Fahey/Takoma/the general intersections of weirdo ppl in the late 60s/early 70s on the John Fahey Facebook group
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
Also---- CHECK THIS SHIT OUT...another dude who posts a lot of old scans posted this from '65 Berkeley....So it looks like Fahey played a show with Bob Dylan in disguise billed as "Tedham Porterhouse" - a pseudonym he used on a Ramblin' Jack Elliot record....if so, what a fucking crazy show
https://i.postimg.cc/YSHxLkcR/68767931-2796884800324865-5760716845304774656-o.jpg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
holy fuck this kumio kurachi rules
― devvvine, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
xp lol, wonder who the dylan impersonator was ... bob himself was in chicagohttp://www.bjorner.com/DSN00785%20(65)-filer/image215.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
haha ah too bad, Dylan is so weird you never know
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
I bet it was Fahey doing a second set
― sleeve, Thursday, 22 August 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
Conrado and Magic Tuber String Band both played great sets. Really complimentary and excellent playing all around. Was psyched to grab a copy of "Insilio" and the MTSB tape on Blue Hole as well. Think I will listen to "Insilio" a lot, as the compositions are very sturdy and interesting without being as fatiguing (for lack of a better word). While I like a lot of more active / wild / technically proficient players, for repeated listening I can really appreciate records that sit in a more measured, casually artful place. Not saying this well, but just noting that I think I will return to this one a lot.
― grandavis, Friday, 23 August 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
glenn jones set (with two new songs!) from last fall
https://southernjukeboxmusic.bandcamp.com/album/glenn-jones-100918
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 27 September 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
nice!
― tylerw, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Cool!
Also was listening to Chuck Johnson - Crows In The Basilica again (one of my favorites) and it really is amazing how deliberate every note is, yet it sounds so effortless and there doesn't seem to be a single flaw.
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
yeah! that one really is one of the best solo guitar LPs of the decade, I think.
in other news pertinent to this thread, Nathan Salsburg played a set in my living room last night! it was great.
― tylerw, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Speaking of flawless guitar playing... that's awesome! I want him to teach me everything he knows. I love his very underrated solo records.
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
One of my students gave his folk presentation (required part of class) on Fahey (at my suggestion, he said he likes guitars) and in making my playlist for them to use on their midterm, I chose Sun Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday as my Fahey track bc it seems like a classic and appealing choice.
I'm sitting here in the exam and making sure everything is good before they get to that part of the test and guess whose youtube account I linked to for the Fahey track?
that's right, our own global tetrahedron. lol!! the internet must know we are friends or maybe this is the most recent version of the song?! anyway, small world, <3 to all folkies nu- and old.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
awww that's awesome 😊
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
I love this story, thanks for sharing it! Long live this thread and all of its various expanding adjacent activities.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link