Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with America an album by American folk musician John Fahey, released in 1971.

Matt Hanks of No Depression on the 1998 reissue:

"Heard in near-entirety, America transcends its already classic standing and becomes one of the most ambitious and epic records Fahey ever made ... if you’re seeking one man’s ruminations on a world that has both enchanted and forsaken him, America is the Fahey effect you’re looking for."

Critic Greg Cahill of the Sonoma County Independent called the reissue "rapturous in its beauty—a majestic, spacious work as grand in its deceptive simplicity as the early American landscape from which it draws inspiration." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFhBC9vXMqg&list=RDAFhBC9vXMqg&start_radio=1

#JohnFahey #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #Fingerstyle #Americnan #FolkMusic #Music

Requia is the eighth album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Released in November 1967, it was the first of Fahey's two releases on the Vanguard label. It originally received hostile reviews from music critics, particularly for its musique concrète experimentation.[6] It has since been recognised as precursor to new-age music...

According to Edward Pouncey of The Wire, contemporary reception to Requia was mixed and often hostile, with many puzzled by the album's lengthy musique concrète centrepiece.

Kris Needs of Record Collector has similarly cited "Requiem for Molly" as a "deranged mosaic of effects" that predated sampling with its mixture of musical interpolations and "snatches of jazz and blues singers, Nazi marching songs, wedding music, hymns, brass bands and fairground organ, as well as self-recorded seals." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7BD45Ou5M&list=PLKiEBsOXrNf6qFDqxp7MO8OPFgq5mc6hV&index=1

#JohnFahey #Fingerstyle #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #Music #VanguardRecords #MusiqueConcret

Live At Third Man Records by Live At Third Man Records, released on Third Man Records in 2015.

Recorded on July 18th, 2014 as the opening set for Peter Walker's psychedelic guitar experience, William Tyler's Live at Third Man Records LP was buried for far too long in our backlog of masters. To release it too soon would have unleashed the secrets of the transcendent and acclaimed record, Modern Country (Merge, 2016) before they had a chance to manifest. To wait any longer would have been torture for us. Originally planned to be a live single, the full, 5-song performance was too truthy, too seamless, and too perfectly whole to be whittled down to two tracks. So, surprise! A live LP is born.

https://thirdmanrecords.com/products/william-tyler-live-at-third-man-records-12-mt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS1Yl3gIu9o&list=RDqS1Yl3gIu9o&start_radio=1

#WilliamTyler #ThirdManRecords #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #Folk #Americana #Music

Big Tex, Here We Come by Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedigo , released on Debacle Records in 2021

Charlie Moonbeam This record instantly thrusts me into a landscape spacious and green. The warmth of the sun abated by the breath of the trees.

Hayden Pedigo
acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, synthesizer

Andrew Weathers
acoustic guitar, banjo, synthesizer, electronics, piano, electric piano

Recorded at Hayden’s House,
Amarillo, TX and Wind Tide, Littlefield, TX

https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/big-tex-here-we-come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmWyBm2YicM&list=PLVBmkaSPiESwpDwZyoeLEXtm0v6t9TvF1&index=1

#AndrewWeathers #HaydenPedigo #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #Ambient #Music #Folk

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday after my swim with Lost Futures a studio album by American guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, released August 27, 2021, via Thrill Jockey...

The album is inspired by, and named in reference to, Jacques Derrida's philosophical concept hauntology, and particularly Mark Fisher's writing on the subject in his work Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures....Tyler said that, having read the book subsequently, he found Fisher to be "not a very hopeful person in his writing", and that the pair "wanted to re-contextualize something about the concept of lost futures. There's an opening there rather than a closed door."

https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/lost-futures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZ96GAk8xs&list=OLAK5uy_m7W6sAS8cu5lHoZwt_UDW0MrKcNEKGIcU

#MarisaAnderson #WilliamTyler #AmericanPrimitiveGuitar #LostFutures #Hauntology #americana #folkmusic

Undertaker Please Drive Slow by Shane Parish, released on Tzadik in 2016.

"A long time resident of the Appalachian town of Asheville, North Carolina, Shane Parish is the mastermind behind the cutting edge rock band
Ahleuchatistas. Here he steps out with a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appalachian roots. Taking classic old timey folk songs, Shane has abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South. At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman, Shane uses these beautiful songs as launching pads for his creative flights of fancy, at times boiling them down to their very essence. A spiritual project that will keep you riveted from first note to last." — John Zorn

https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/undertaker-please-drive-slow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcwKgeP4hsw&list=RDtcwKgeP4hsw&start_radio=1

#ShaneParish #Tzadik #johnzorn #americanprimitiveguitar #traditionalsongs #folksongs

Parallelogram by Six Organs Of Admittance / William Tyler, released on Three Lobed Recordings in 2015.

Mutual influence is always fun to see in action, especially when it is between modern long-form guitar composition greats Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and William Tyler. This volume of Three Lobed Recording’s Parallelogram series allows both artists room to stretch out and breathe. Multi-movement suites have long been a skillful part of the Six Organs of Admittance lexicon. Chasny’s contribution, “Lsha,” expands upon this artistic legacy as it commandingly pulses and moves through its three propulsive phases...

https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/parallelogram-5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuG272HNNY&list=RDacuG272HNNY&start_radio=1

#sixorgansofadmittance #williamtyler #ThreeLobedRecordings #americanprimitiveguitar

Blue Ash Montgomery by William Tyler, released on Lightning Records in 2014.

"Here's a beautifully crafted bit of fairly traditional folk guitar work, comfortably in the vein of American Primitive giants like Basho or Taussig, that manages to bring something new and inspired to the table. I only recently discovered Tyler's solo work (formerly of Silver Jews) while going through a guitar binge and this album immediately jumped out at me. The wildly ecstatic closer w/ Tim Barnes is worth the listen alone, so please dig in and hopefully you enjoy it as much as I have." - DD

https://buffalotones.blogspot.com/2016/09/william-tyler-blue-ash-montgomery-2014.html

https://lightningstudios.bandcamp.com/album/blue-ash-montgomery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ha7u-5bfs&ab_channel=LightningStudios

#williamtyler #americanprimitiveguitar #folkguitar #lightningrecords #cassette