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

I'm not too uptight about it but could see the value in jam talk in the GP thread instead of here

I think historically this thread was the place because it was kind of a small group of Ilxors and also a lot of ppl in the scene: Forsyth, Gunn, Walker, Tyler etc were moving out of solo stuff into more jam band or jam adjacent approaches

also back to the comp, so happy to see Keith Lee featured he's gotten so good and isn't known at all, absolutely fantastic guy love him

also Oscar Tengo, Matt is phenomenal

I bought that comp, definitely looking forward to listening to it. Saw Matt do a livestream set a bit ago that was really great, and yeah looks like a lot of cool folks on the comp.

I really was just being a curmudgeon. There is no real need to gatekeep the thread, it generally just goes where it goes and is better for it. I may not personally wanna dive into the GP conversations but that may change at some point. Maybe they will win me over down the line.

Big support and shouts to the Mpls benefit album and everyone on it! Tompkins also released that DFBM-curated entry in the Imaginational Anthem series. Did not expect that at all but it made me smile and now that I think about it, that's something that should've happened years ago.

Also, this is stupid in comparison to what we're all focused on at the moment but I just saw this on TV... my ears perked up and I turned my head to look and literally said "McDonalds?!" out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6_9Yrfv7Nc

hahaha whoa!

And you know his order by heart
And you grill his Big Mac to start
Stroll on by with a smile and I'm lovin it
Stroll on by with a smile and I'm lovin it

The McLurker (Extended w/ cheese) > Tuning > Space

Hah hah wow, that is pretty amazing.(I am sorry, that song is now forever known as The McLurker, for me at least)

not gonna judge a musician for doing what they gotta in the time of COVID

yeah hope it gives steve a little breathing room!

Oh yeah, zero judgment from me. Licensing is one of the only good ways for a musician to make decent money these days, I hope Steve got a good chunk of change for it. I just love the McLurker joke (I would not call it this anywhere but in my mind, but I will enjoy it when I do)

Haha!

Lol I love Steve (both of them for that matter). My life interests do naturally gravitate me towards keeping a running list of commercials that've used guitar tracks we all know and love. I chose to work in commercial art for a reason so no judgement there. From GHQ cdrs, to the Sundowner LP on Harvest, to the ltd to 25 lathe on Medusa, to commercial licensing--I'm here for the ride and will never step off!

just in general, i love all the back-end, business-type stuff about the music industry.

so in that spirit (no judgment), how much do y'all think that commercial put/will put in SG's pocket?

I remember being surprised by Revolt of the Dyke Brigade by Fahey at the end of Logan Lucky

Ok the new Sarah Louise song is absolutely stunning

https://open.spotify.com/track/26O1vE8RNEjr8WLRjJIYKZ?si=FMq5-C81RV2vJd8BWftbxQ

I absolutely love this

https://youtu.be/1D2-IsOPoE4

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, May 24, 2020 8:20 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I emailed this link to Glenn and he really liked it. Said the guy deserves to have a VDSQ release!

wow let's speak it into existence!

Tbis is probably gonna sound dickish, but I do not click Spotify links. So, anything posted here as such is an idea and nothing else. So, if it truly rules and deserves recognition tell me about it and where else I can find it. No rules and yet, sum dumbasses like me exist ....

Not dickish at all - I'm in the same boat. I've even clicked the links to try to view the tracklists and stuff but I guess you can't even see those without having an account, which I do not.

Well, thanks for indulging me P. Ponzi, but yeah it kinda is. Sheesh, I am an adult I can just google stuff like anyone else. UMS, you rule please don't take that original post as being aimed at you, it is squarely aimed at Spotify generally (still not gonna click a Spotify link, but that is my issue ....)

I am just basically in a bad mood a lot these days, and for some reason decide to post when I am in that mood. Will try not to take it out on this thread, which generally is a place of cool people simply sharing shit they like, which is something to be appreciated. So yeah, I will try to knock it off hah hah.

it's part of this mixtape — https://www.adultswim.com/music/as-stimulus-swim

no worries

I would usually post YouTube but it's not there or on her Bandcamp I could only find it on Spotify

tbf sarah louise posted the spotify link on her twitter

Oh yeah I was being dumb. Hopefully it pops up somewhere else at some point. Cool that Adult Swim is linking off to everyone's site.

it's a way off yet but this is the august issue of wire magazine:

The cover of the issue will be another of our special multipart features, this one being a survey of the current state of fingerpicking guitar. At the heart of the feature will be interviews with three instrumentalists who transform atavistic American folk forms into 21st century cosmic music, namely Marisa Anderson and C Joynes, who will be profiled by fellow guitarists James Toth (aka Wooden Wand) and Bruce Russell (of The Dead C), and Sarah Louise who talks to our reporter Abi Bliss. We will also be reconsidering some of fingerpicking guitar’s various historical manifestations, including Val Wilmer on the enigma of Davey Graham, Glenn Jones on the key matter of tuning, and Jennifer Lucy Allen on the fashions and philosophies of Robbie Basho.

new rhyton is really enjoyable

https://rhyton.bandcamp.com/album/kraters-call

gotta get that, love rhyton.

would take a whole record of salsburg / tyler / riles : https://nathansalsburg.bandcamp.com/track/second-moon

jim elkington has put two new solo recordings on his bandcamp presumably because bandcamp is doing the thing again tomorrow where they waive their fees and all proceeds go direct to the artist. the songs (one of which is a zombies cover!) are awesome. really good.

the new Fabiano Nascimento is quite lovely perhaps https://fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/prel-dio-2

Marisa Anderson coves "The White Lady Loves You More" by Elliot Smith, predictably gorgeous

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/listen-to-marisa-andersons-cover-of-elliott-smiths-the-white-lady-loves-you-more/

August issue of The Wire has a cover story about Cosmic Guitar, which I am assuming is a primer, featuring Marissa Anderson, Sarah Louise, Gwenifer Raymond, Robbie Basho, Davey Graham and C. Joynes. Also has a Lonnie Holley article I'd love to read. Too bad I currently have no idea where to find a copy of The Wire. Still upset about missing the Tangerine Dream issue too. Does anyone here still subscribe? I'm actually tempted but since I have no idea when I will ever work again it's not really in the cards

Saw that, really want it but don't know where to buy it either

I bought the Wire at Barnes & Noble the other day, it was the Feb issue with Wire on the cover, it has always been a couple months behind the UK, I imagine with the current state of the world it is even further behind.

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)