Which ones do you enjoy? Help expand my horizons in this sort of genre.
Jim Guthrie - Thousand Songs Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance John Stuart Mill - Forget Everything Archer Prewitt - Three Red Red Meat - There's a Star Above The Manger Tonight Red Red Meat and Tim Rutili - Demos (songs for the transistion to califone) The Grifters - Eureka (ep) etc...
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:54 (eighteen years ago)
I purposely didn't choose anything more folk than rock.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)
:( bump
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 18 May 2008 20:44 (eighteen years ago)
Hard to know how to respond, Lorax. I like some Grifters and RRM stuff (earlier recordings = better in both cases), but the rest of what you mention doesn't appeal.
Rock = get drunk and damage things Folk = get drunk and sing old-timey music Experimental = get drunk and annoy/puzzle/terrify the neighbors/cats
― contenderizer, Sunday, 18 May 2008 20:50 (eighteen years ago)
Re contenderizer's defintion's, I'd say Freakwater's Thinking of You, and probably any recent live shots you might find on the Web, ditto live stuff linked from andrewbird.net (live does better by a number of his songs than studion). I like Robert Forster's new The Evangelist too, and some (maybe an EP's-worth) of the Silver Jews' Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea (out in June). Somewhat more toward yer favored, gnarlier Chicago approach, at least some of the time (although he lives in North Carolina): David Karsten Daniels' Fear of Flying (check him on our host, paperthinwalls.com, and you can prob find some other stuff you'd like there).
― dow, Sunday, 18 May 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)
Also, and really more than DKD or most of what I just mentioned,given what you list, you might like the Chicago chamber-folk-art-rock whatever of that Janet Bean And (The?)Concertina Wire album on Thrill Jockey.
― dow, Sunday, 18 May 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)
I guess if my categorization of the albums/bands that I mentioned fails to uphold the genre I tried to classify them as (and believe me classifying is damn hard nowadays), maybe you can suggest albums that seem similar to the ones I mentioned.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 18 May 2008 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
no one else knows similar music (last bump)? Robert Forster, David Karsten Daniels, Silver Jews didn't really compare well in my book. Seriously though, thanks for replying.
― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 22 May 2008 06:09 (eighteen years ago)
trans am, surrender to the night
― jeremy waters, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:30 (eighteen years ago)
Apostle of Hustle? Folksy Broken Social Scene offshoot.
― ledge, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:41 (eighteen years ago)