Well now you've made me go youtube Adrian Legg performances. Slippery slope indeed.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
hey you're never alone when you have michael hedges records to keep you company
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
I find Michael Hedges to be really terrible. The precursor to that slap and tap Andy McKee Youtube gibberish. I can't believe that the recent Fahey show uploaded to Youtube, the New Varsity series, were of him opening for Hedges. Slippery slope indeed.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
I bought this Alex De Grassi album for $1 because it was in mint condition and was only $1, but it's pretty good for light (not lite) guitar music. It took me forever to remember his name because all I could remember is what the cover looked like.
http://991.com/newGallery/Alex-DeGrassi-Turning-Turning-B-495700.jpg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
friend of mine put out this solo acoustic guitar CD a few years ago - http://www.josephbrenna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/josephbrennacover.jpghe's the one who hates fahey though! much more into things like Hedges. Though I think he's actually not that into acoustic guitar playing, really, this was more of a side-trip for him. http://www.josephbrenna.com
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
the exact point at which this stuff starts to sound like "healing music" is my tipping point
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Tyler, thanks for that! I have now moved on form A. Legg to listening to D.P. Grody's album "In Search Of Light", which is really nice. Synth and acoustic guitars and a few other instruments so far. Nicely layered and detailed (lots of overdubs), but hitting the spot on a slow wintery Wednesday for sure. Can stream it on his bandcamp page.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
That was in response to that D.P. Grody mix of course
yeah it's pretty good. feel like it's 5-4-3-2-1 til some label is reissuing that great Cromarty record. [which, if you haven't heard it, is up for dl on root blog].
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Can't really download right now. What's the Cromarty like? Straight solo fingerpicking stuff of songs?
― grandavis, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
it's solo fingerpicking except for the last song (which has vocals). really pretty playing, probably closer to john renbourn than fahey.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks Tyler. Will add it to the things to download when I have a slow day at home.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the cromarty thing is really gorgeous
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2012/11/15/george-cromarty-grassroots-guitar/
i mean...just the #swag on the cover alone:
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cromarty.jpg
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
i like that on the back of that album he offers a pronunciation guide for his name. more people should do that.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
does he use IPA symbols and everything??!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha, no, here it ishttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjq0dI44F1qzy30io1_1280.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
oh sorry that's tiny, here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/image/35789942787
huh! i've heard that name a zillion times and i've never heard it pronounced like thatalways cro-MAR-tithanks g cromarty!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
i know! as in cromwell and thirty! would have never known.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
this is a great thread. have nothing new to share atm but was watching this great little set by jack rose earlierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esteBtuPrshe kinda loses it at the end, there's a lot frustration in playing this kind of music i suppose.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vorXt58DZUg
^ Do you guys know Alexander Turnquist? Think he's been around for a few years but I've only just started picking up his stuff. Kind of in a James Blackshaw/Robbie Basho vein of 12-string playing.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
steve gunn & mike wexler playing tonight in brooklyn, both some of my fave locals.gunn is more raga-psych-jamz on acoustic/electric and wexler is more songwriting but both are really great.union pool! endless boogie are headlining.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
hey ian! i hoped you would find this thread.
loving this turnquist
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
turnquist is on the latest imaginational anthem (which is the only thing I've heard by him), but i was kinda ehhh, because it was sooooo blackshaw-esque. but that clip is pretty great, will check out some more stuff by him.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
my running list of dudes that are totally boring new agey guitar player magazine type bullshit you should avoid:
Sergio AltamuraAntoine Dufour (i don't know why i even bothered once i saw the song title "Spiritual Groove (Live)")
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
but i was kinda ehhh, because it was sooooo blackshaw-esque
yeah, definitely get that impression watching some older clips. got his most recent album and he seemed to be playing a lot higher up the fretboard and chucking in lots of harmonics so it had more of a steffen basho junghans feel. it's okay! but yes, not frollicking naked in wild new fields of discovery
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
tbh most of the stuff in this thread is probably going to be more evolutionary than revolutionary
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, totally
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, had been told about Turnquist by a friend of mine, and I really like that. I like that he has a somewhat maximalist sonic approach, i.e., a lot of open strings and overtones/harmonics going on (and the fast rolls with the fingerpicking), but the melodic movement and chording are pretty minimal. Guess I should listen to more Blackshaw, whom I haven't delved into very deeply yet.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that drone segment at the end of that Jack Rose video is actually quite astounding. I thought he was using an effect at first, but it really just seems like just his lap slide.
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/vqOTeMGwsYEthis guy is good -- need to pick up his record... i think he's the guy who did that work hard, play hard box set for tompkins square too?
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
That is good, hadn't listened to him before.
Reminds me of Micah Blue Smaldone's instrumental stuff (touches of more traditional old-time/ragtime type stuff), though Micah writes a lot of vocal downer stuff as opposed to being largely instrumental, which is what has been popping up on this thread. All finger-picking though, worth checking out. Friend of the Cerberus Shoal/Big Blood crew of folks from Maine.
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Nathan's "Affirmed" album is great and so is his album of duso with James Elkington.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
duos, that is.
yeah checking Affirmed out now. sounds great. it is kind of interesting w/ these guitar players and the more ragtime-y stuff they all seem to get into sooner or later. it's sort of the least "cool" sounding stuff (not to say I don't like it). is there something technically challenging about playing in that way that draws them to that style?
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
ok, yeah, this salsburg album is stellar! dig the one vocal track too...
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
wow this is really great thanks tyler!
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
btw this horribly album covered peter lang record from 2003 is pretty good!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/GuitarPeterLang.jpg
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
one of the ppl that come up on nathan salsburg's "related artists" on Spotify....#swag
http://img.mp3rally.com/imager/w_500/h_/12acd7dd26092cdfdb8077214cca31d3.jpg
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
the james elkington/nathan salsburg album is on spotify, really gorgeous
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah checking that one out next! guitar jock! intense, showin off the back of the amp. so raw.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
just had that bitch re-tubed
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
scariest thing is, give me ten years and i will look exactly like that dude.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
listening to will ackerman right now on spotify
this....isn't that bad....
i may have crossed some very important line
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
maneli jamal, new guy i guess iranian by way of belarus and austin TX...some of his stuff is a bit too technical and kinda saccharine for my taste but he's super talented
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69MJ4UGzvl4
― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
also found this fingerstyle label candyrat but it (and jamal) sort of have the music school/guitar mag stench about them
http://candyrat.com/
― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Man, you are doing some work. There is a fine line, and seemingly a LOT of folks who get technical chops of the fingerstyle variety.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's kinda hard to find stuff that hits that perfect middle ground between indie rock dudes playing dress-up and session dudes new age jacking off stuff
― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link