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

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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

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Kieran Hebden & William Tyler:
🎵 Spider Ballad

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https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/spider-ballad

https://open.spotify.com/track/6AfXAFKkqmp6EsJWxHXihQ

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

Ended Tuesday and started Wednesday after a swim with Elvis Was A Capricorn by William Tyler, released on Tompkins Square in 2012.

Grayson Haver Currin wrote for Pitchfork:

"Maybe 10 minutes seems like a long time to listen to one electric guitar play one piece of music. But even on the shorter songs from his 2010 LP Behold the Spirit, Nashville guitarist William Tyler demonstrated enviable faculties of both dynamics and timing. He patched moments of guitar picking so quiet they seemed to murmur with drones dense enough to rattle the cage, shifting between them with preternatural ease.

...Elvis Was a Capricorn is included as a bonus in the limited-edition box set that reprises all five of Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem compilations."

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14645-william-tyler-country-of-illusion/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxMIU-zvVo0&list=RDLxMIU-zvVo0&start_radio=1

#williamtyler #americanprimitiveguitar #tompkinssquare

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday with Modern Country
by William Tyler, released in 2016 on Merge

Sam Sodomsky wrote for Pitchfork:

William Tyler is not a traditional storyteller. Having played guitar alongside some of Nashville’s most distinctive songwriters (Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner and Silver Jews’ David Berman), he has clearly learned a good deal from them about establishing his voice, structuring narratives, and building tension. But Tyler—whose solo albums are purely instrumental—works in a field all his own, composing increasingly intricate and immersive narratives with just his playing. Tyler referred to his 2013 Merge Records debut Impossible Truth as being a “’70s singer-songwriter record without vocals,” and he develops that vision even more fully on its follow-up, Modern Country...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21916-modern-country/

https://williamtyler.bandcamp.com/album/modern-country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHJIh7ycT4&list=OLAK5uy_nvZ5lyFLSmuUwB_QeB2UwshewaG9KcWNA

#williamtyler #wilco #megafaun '#instrumental #guitar