Originally, this aired on May 26th, 2012.
It was another one of my submissions to the folk show, but I think it can find placement on the blog because there's certainly some psych flavor to most of it. As psychedelic as you can get with an un-affected acoustic guitar, at least. Maybe you'll like it.
Blue
Moon Rising
- Gomez - Live at the Aggie Theater, 3/1/2012
.......
Sunflower
River Blues -
John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes - 1967
Smylax - Langtry - As Upon The Road
Thereto - 2005
It's
inside me, and I'm inside it - Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge - 2011
Ur - Steve Tibbetts - YR - 1980
California
Silks And Satins
- Man - Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics - 1974
.......
Busted
Bicycle - Leo
Kottke - 6 And 12-String Guitar - 1968
Texas
Lemon Flavour
- Stefan Grossman - Those Pleasant Days: The Transatlantic Anthology
- 1970
Raga - Max Ochs - Contemporary
Spring Guitar - 1967
Stone,
Leaf and Pond
- Six Organs of Admittance - Maria Kapel - 2011
.......
Some
Grass - Sleep
- Sleep's Holy Mountain - 1993
E.M.D. (bluegrass) - David
Grisman Quintet - S/T - 1977
When
I Was A Boy (flamenco)
- Biel Ballester Trio - 2008
Little
Maggie -
Sandy Bull - Fantasias For Guitar and Banjo - 1963
.......
The
Thousand Incarnations of The Rose - Robbie Băsho - Contemporary Spring
Guitar - 1967
Moving
Up A Ways -
Robbie Băsho - The Voice of The Eagle - 1972
Now
Sleeps
- Ilyas Ahmed - With Endless Fire - 2012
Hollow
Log
- Beck - One Foot In the Grave - 1994
.......
Stepping
On My Thumbs
- Michael Gulezian - Snow - 1979
After
the Dance
- Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Bert and John - 1966
Norwegian
Mood - Peter
Walker - Rainy Day Raga - 1966
Goddamn
The Sun - Six
Organs of Admittance - Empty The Sun - 2009
Apres
Midi American -
Robbie Băsho - The Art of The Steel String Guitar 6 and 12 - 1979
.......
Pay
Day
- Mississippi John Hurt - The Complete Studio Recordings - 1966
It is remarkable what one can do with the sheer versatility of an acoustic guitar. The 2 hours we have here is heavily focused on a facet of American Folk music that I believe should have as much attention as possible, given its beauty and influence.
It seemed a little insane to have an entire set reserved for solo-acoustic guys - so we eased into this set of mostly instrumental guitar music with a spaced-out live cut from Gomez, and threw in some other wildcards that seemed to go with the flow (Man, Biel Ballester, etc.) to keep you on your toes - but mainly stuck to the '60s/'70s output of labels like Takoma and Vanguard. (Though a handful of these albums were completely self-released before that was really a thing, and remain largely forgotten specks on the industry's underbelly.)
I hope you enjoy these hard-to-find and under-appreciated recordings, as you are unlikely to find them anywhere else - radio or otherwise.
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