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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 2h

I’m doing a full guitar soli set tonight on an acoustic guitar. Hope I’m not flying too close to the sun. I’ve done this at a few daytime in-stores but never at a show-time show

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 5h

Solid show tonight - consider dropping by if you’re in PDX

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 30/09/2026

Working out Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” - such a fun song to play and sing

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 27/09/2026

Ran across the word “eustacetube” in Finnegan’s Wake - 1930’s youtube I can only imagine

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 27/09/2026

One of the great things about art in any medium is you hang out with it, not with its creator. All you will ever experience is the work, you don’t actually have to deal with the person, and you can take that as the relief it is. You likely have enough people to deal with already

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 27/09/2026

The inimitable Abner Jay. More in the alt text

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026

I am pretty light on self-editing with my music but some of it makes me cringe and will stay buried. Mostly from the early 2010’s. It sounds like if Ween sucked and was making twee bedroom indie folk

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026

I will always hate Ken Burns for erasing Free Jazz from his jazz series. Horseshit

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026

Oak’s Bottom Wildlife Refuge, Sellwood

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

I’m practicing guitar so much I’m gonna have to record all my songs again

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 23/09/2026

100 years of John Coltrane. This record was my entry point to his work

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 18/09/2026

Me going Wizard Mode at a Pedalpalooza after party show out in the wilds of the Springwater Corridor. All the amps were powered by car batteries and it was all biked in. 2018 I think

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Peter J Z B @pjb1980.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Modern Folk’s MF lp has landed in Burlington, Vermont. Dangerous Pacific Northwest invasion via Boston, be safe out there people. Available at Burlington Records @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com

Storefront, Burlington Records. The words ROCK and JAZZ loom large in the windows.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

got our first PORTLAND show coming up, which is also the first ever Trash Panda Go Kart performance outside of Washington State woo-woo! FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25th Five Big Rocks (pdx), Trash Panda Go Kart (PNW), Skullkat (Tacoma), Uncanny Valley Girls (pdx) Hawthorne's Hideaway Doors: 8pm, show: 9pm

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25th ... Five Big Rocks, Trash Panda Go Kart, Skullkat, Uncanny Valley Girls ... Hawthorne's Hideaway 2221 SE Hawthorne blvd Portland, OR 97214 ... Doors: 8pm, show: 9pm, $10-$20 notaflof 21+

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 17/09/2026

You should all watch my DIY Bigfoot hunting show. I'm still really proud of this. Youtube playlist below with all the episodes

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SQUATCHIN' WITH JOSH EP 1

YouTube video by josh moss

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Nick Samuel @nicholaslsamuel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beautiful new tape here from Swanke and Moss. Thanks @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 17/09/2026

But it's alright God dug your dance And would have you young and in his harem Dress you the way he wants cause he never had a doll Cause everybody made him a boy And God didn't think to ask his preference You can bring your dress and your favorite dog And your husband’s cane And your old spotted dog

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 13/09/2026

Alma’s painting - Seal Neighborhood

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 13/09/2026

Forgot to add the highlights to this guy’s eyes and nose. All better now

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026

Big show later this month ❤️🎸❤️

"26 SPECTACULAR!
TuRn Turn TURn!
SEP:30
SEP.E
TICKETS $IO - $20 OR CASH
DOORS 7:00 P.M.
ONLY AT DOOR
ON SALE AT USUAL PLACES
SHOW 8:00 P.M. UNTIL?
PORTLAND, OREGON
Centripetal Force Records presents:
#I FRAILIN' MAESTRO!
BANTO!
ALL IN PERSON!
FROM SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
JOHNNY BELL
AND FROM
PORTLAND, ORE.
LUCAS GUNN
HATE
Wallace e
ANNA
Verlet
TURNTURN
NAT
"Mighty"
JOSH MOSS GUITARS.
POSTERS BY THE SOUND-O-MAT MR. BELL STYLED &
N. MISSOURI & FAILING
PHOTOGRAPHED
PORTLAND, ORE.
BY RILEY BELL
NO VAGABONDS
TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF CHEDDAR

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 10/09/2026

Leadbelly is eternal. More in the alt text

I have a very specific memory of listening to this album with my friend Zac Jones, who passed away in 2022. He was a drummer and this Leadbelly record was very inspirational to music we worked on together, 20 years ago. I miss him all the time, but I love to remember him; I can revisit music we dug together and music we made together. Of anyone John and Alan Lomax recorded, Leadbelly has to be the source of the most pop songs - Nirvana, Johnny Cash, CCR, Ram Jam and many others had success with their takes on Leadbelly arrangements. His singing and playing emphasized force and power, it matched his name. He was released from prison, where he was serving 30 years for murder, based on a song he wrote - he must’ve been extremely charismatic. He must’ve been sharp, too. The way he combined issues of race and class in the song “Bourgeoise Blues” would be the envy of any leftist Youtuber today. Absolutely timeless music

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026

In honor of Trout Mask Replica never being on streaming for some reason, I always keep a handful of what I consider my best albums forever unstreamable

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 06/09/2026

The ghost of American music past, Charley Patton. More in the alt text

Charley Patton’s recordings are some of the most mysterious and ghostly sounding of the pre-war blues era. They rise up like a rippling mirage of Mississippi heat, cottonwood fluff floating on thick, humid air. John Fahey wrote his master’s thesis in ethnomusicology on Patton; I have that thing printed out in a drawer somewhere, but I haven’t read it. Patton’s ethnicity has been up for debate, I find the idea that he had Indigenous heritage fascinating, along with the idea of Indigenous music traditions being a part of the delta blues, which is something I never thought of when first discovering this music. His parents are only speculated at, but his life experience was Black, living most of his life on plantations. He inspired the first generation of delta blues players and every subsequent generation of blues, folk and rock musicians. Truly a cornerstone of American music, and you can hear why even through the crackle of 78 rpm recordings. I am currently working on my own arrangement of “Jesus Was A Dying Bedmaker”, though I am going more off of Bob Dylan’s version of Blind Willie Johnson’s version (“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”) - that all just shows how far Charley Patton’s influence reaches

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 05/09/2026

Live CAN. I love to hear them jam. More in the alt text

I love these archival CAN live albums, though I have only sprung for an LP copy of this first one. 1975 in Stuttgart finds CAN singer-less and engaged in highly rhythmic long-form jams, sometimes sounding almost like proto-techno played by a band, mostly thanks to their legendary rhythm section. At other times, they sound like a German bizarro Grateful Dead - one passage on the 3rd disc sounds so much like the Dead lining up to fall into “Fire on the Mountain” it’s crazy. I have received push-back on this comparison, but it’s valid. Neu is the German CCR but that’s a different post! I think both bands share a high degree of danceability - even if the respective dances would look very different! Anyway, CAN can jam, I think we all knew that. Grateful for these recordings

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 05/09/2026

I was deleting contacts in my phone last night but kept the ones for the handful of folks who’ve died

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 04/09/2026

Such patient and deliberate guitar playing on this; free but with everything in its right place

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026

Here I am with my wares, available bandcamp Friday or any old day! All the links are in my bio

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 04/09/2026

Finally getting decent at playing songs I wrote ten years ago. I guess I never really stop writing any of my songs, it’s a slow, never ending process

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 04/09/2026

No bye, no aloha Gone with a rock promoter A rock promoter I know, I saw and now may die Oh, all the treats Saw it on the wall Motherhood means mental freeze Freezeheads, no aloha I know, I saw and now may die

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026

Here I am with my wares, available bandcamp Friday or any old day! All the links are in my bio

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026

I’m on a delta blues kick. All these pre-war recordings are so magical. I am fascinated by the idea Patton in particular was maybe influenced by American indigenous music and/or was indigenous himself

CHARLEY PATTON
ELECTRICALLY RECORDED: JESUS IS A DYING-BED MAKER

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 02/09/2026

Well, the moral of the story The moral of this song Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong So when you see your neighbor carrying somethin' Help him with his load And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 02/09/2026

Alma got a kid’s “Tin Can” phone and she called her cousin and she was talking exactly like Special Agent Gordon Cole

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 31/08/2026

I put ten of the Swanke/Moss duo tapes on my Bandcamp - there are handful left on John's page, then they are gone!

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Swanke and Moss, by John Swanke/Josh Moss

7 track album

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 30/08/2026

Loaded up the Trader Joe’s tote bags for the gig

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 28/08/2026

Duo tape from @johnswanke.bsky.social and me is out now on John’s bandcamp! I’ll have it on mine soon too. Thanks @mattbormet.com and Chad Beattie for liner notes johnswanke.bandcamp.com/album/swanke...

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