Forfolks (Vinyl LP) Rhythm & Blues

Forfolks (Vinyl LP) Rhythm & BluesJeff Parkers Forfolks a new album of solo guitar works was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeffs house) over two days in June 2021. It includes interpretations of Thelonious Monks Ugly Beauty and the standard My Ideal, plus six original compositions including "Four Folks," "La Jete" (a tune he recorded with Tortoise in 1998), and four totally new loop driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with

channelling James Brown-esque energy in Chicago shoes

recordings he had made of harpist Lara Somogyi

and one that continues to grow to this day

In Times New Roman… was recorded and mixed at Homme’s own Pink Duck (RIP)

'Borracho' reaches a cathartic wall of shrieking feedback

LP - 180 Gram Black vinyl

Biographer John Szwed finds on these recordings "characteristics which seemed alien to swing

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jackin' piano from Darren Morris

and surreal urban detail - as in the mournfully soundtracked cross-city trek of 'Susan's house'

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Despite the teenage girls’ lack of experience