>inb4 beefheart
yeah i know him i love his music, but i want to know if there's some kind of "avantgarde son house" for example
Avant-garde delta blues?
Jason Brooks
Jackson Evans
Daniel Morales
Bill Orcutt
Jandek is my choice of poison personally
Gavin Murphy
>Avant-garde delta blues?
What did he mean by this?
Ian Jackson
Presumably something pretentious
Samuel Scott
>something pretentious
What did he mean by this?
Wyatt Miller
>avant-garde delta blues
kinda of redundant desu desu. a lot of those musicians were cutting edge in the 20s/30s
Aiden Lee
American Primitivism as a genre is pretty Avant Garde and fairly inspired by blues as well as other American folk. Maybe you should try John Fahey or Sandy Bull.
The Savage Young Taterbug is a folk artist who does some crazy tape stuff and often channels infernal gutteral blues ramblings. Maybe you should try the albums River Mortis or Syrupy Evenings.
Brayden James
No-Neck Blues Band
Blake Clark
OP here, thanks for the recs anons
Josiah Price
This is just tape music I don't think he recorded it himself but it's got blues stuff so idk I'm just doing my best
youtube.com
James Flores
Exactly this. In my experience, people that are looking for "avant-garde" takes on American folk do so because they think it's the true spirit of "weird America" or whatever and, like, no, that's not how it works. All that shit is artificial at the end of the day, at least, that's how it seems to me.
Try actually listening to more obscure, outsider, blues and country artists like Hasil Adkins or RL Burnside sometime. I guarantee you, it's a lot more naturally weird and edgy than some "freak folk" bs
Dominic Reyes
So bands aren't allowed to make experimental folk albums unless they were born in the 30's?
Jonathan Moore
It's not so much that; it's more like a lot of the attempts to make "americana, but weird" tend to feel so forced to me and, again, artificial.
Angel Walker
im glad omniscient arbiters of taste like yourself still exist to educate us, the mass of drooling plebian husk-shells
Jordan Cruz
James Blood Ulmer's Tales of Captain Black and Freelancing
Mason Cruz
How's this?
Skip James - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues
youtu.be
Ayden Sullivan
these are probably the closest to that description, especially bill orcutt
Check out Abner Jay and Joseph Spence if you want something that perhaps isn't "avant-garde" but still very unique approaches to the genre
>R.L. Burnside
>Obscure
Gabriel Morales
>avant garde
>blues
Junior Kimbrough (because hsrdly any of his shit's recorded)
youtu.be
...shades of Zeppelin?
Ry Cooder... self appointed caretaker of Americana in music. And a badass slide guitarist.
youtu.be
Is that avant garde??
Connor Turner
derek bailey?
Landon Campbell
James Blood Ulmer
Gavin Bennett
just stick to son house
Bentley Myers
Ry Cooder dropped out of Cpt. Beefheart's Magic Band because he thought that they were too werid. I doubt he would want to be considered avant-garde