Danny Paul Grody - Furniture Music (2014)

Songs awash in warm melody, deft musicianship, and ambient hypnosis populate the latest albums from Danny Paul Grody, with often little more than his acoustic guitar achieving these heights.  A founding member of instrumental masters Tarentel and the jazzy, atmospheric The Drift, his solo music has taken the minimal, circular, and trancelike aspects of his previous work and boiled them down to their essential elements, but with a newly inspired sound.  These records are largely within the vein of American Primitivism, with spacious patterns of fingerpicked guitar, but Grody's particular treatment gives the genre a dreamy sound like no other.  His most recent album, Furniture Music, is his most stripped down yet; just simply beautiful songs and a feeling like these sounds and moods were ever-present in the world and Grody simply had the ear and ability to make them manifest.  Read his description for his inspiration behind it.  His other albums are similarly high quality, but fans of this John Fahey post may enjoy this the most.

Listen and support.

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John Fahey - The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (1964)

Taking traditional American folk, bluegrass, and blues influences and expanding their possibilities with his own original, melodic, and increasingly intricate fingerpicking and slide guitar techniques, John Fahey laid the foundation for what would become known as American Primitivism, referring to the self-taught and innovative take on the American musical tendencies of the period between the early 20th and late 19th centuries.  This early steel-string acoustic album of his only begins to hint at the level of dissonance, experimentation, and spacey arrangements and textures Fahey would eventually bring to his work, while still remaining a blend of traditional styles, classical composition, and Fahey's own signature imprint.  The last four tracks were not on the original release, but added to this reissue of the album.

Dance the dance.

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By the End of Tonight - Live at Fitzgerald's on Halloween (2014)

On the night of Halloween, in the year of our lord 2014, the always amazing, yet sadly defunct, By the End of Tonight saw fit to reunite and grace the world with one more frenetic, powerful, and ultimately pants-moistening live performance in the town of Houston, TX.  It was a sight to behold, pure fun and emotion on so many levels, and, if the fates be truly cruel (and the band's words believed), a beautiful final send-off to their illustrious career.  As one privileged to witness it, here I humbly offer the sounds we heard that night that I was able to capture.  This is indeed the full show, with quality audio and labeled tracks, but of course: any recording is but a shadow of a majestic performance in the flesh.  Thank you for all the memories, BtEoT.  Love you guys.

Enjoy this loudly.

Watch the show!  (not my video)

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