Robbie Basho - Night Way

From the 1978 album, "Visions of the Country"

[@burdwurds3758]

It’s a crime most of his work still isn’t on streaming

[@jerricocrittenden8311]

I was thinking the same thing. Don’t know why either!!

[@nugsymalone1247]

You keep getting caught up in all the recent bs around you, until you hear Basho. He melts it away, and you remember what its like being human.

[@slabside72]

❤️

[@leefu2000]

Yes!

[@NOTATIONxQUOTATION]

Robbie Basho had a gift for giving voice to currents that too often run silent.

[@charleehalfnur1742]

lovely comment

[@justinralls6432]

Very well said.

[@markweightman5616]

Amen

[@nugsymalone1247]

It's a beautiful thing man

[@jonsachs2079]

Felt this!

[@rabokarabekian409]

He took the last name of Basho as his link to the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. The old pond. A frog jumps. "Plop/splash!"

[@Dusty999]

I stumbled upon a concert he performed in Santa Cruz in 1982 or '83 and was blown away. Several years later, and in another state, the Montessori teacher for my son told me Basho performed at her wedding.

[@svvmaq_]

...you ever find yourself bawling bc this is so beautiful and you're so happy and full of love???! oh that's just me?... ok!

[@nugsymalone1247]

I ride this wave with him. It's so deep some people don't want to hear it

[@Mr-tj6vv]

I am Japanese. Translated by Google. Basho's music is also very good. It appeals to the soul. It's a pity that it's almost unknown in Japan.

[@maventaylor7953]

Music like this will never be known or apreciated by the majority. Society has a mask on, this music took it off

[@Mr-tj6vv]

@@maventaylor7953 nice(*^-^*)

[@turnsout...onlyalways9362]

Unfortunately, his songs are mostly unknown in the states too. I only stumbled across it thanks to youtube.

[@alidabirnia2882]

Well done translation my friend.

[@Mr-tj6vv]

@@alidabirnia2882 I think the lobby basho is wonderful. I'm a genius. It is my own view of the world. Before this, I'll buy a CD that contains unreleased songs.

[@tjk355]

Been listening to Basho for years and never heard this. Wow incredible vocals

[@jerricocrittenden8311]

Checkout “moving up a ways” the original version of you haven’t heard that song from him ❤

[@user-vz7xf5vf6j]

Wonderful and wonderful.

[@stephansmuse]

Knew him and sat with him many times as he played...a great musical influence and a sweet sweet human.

[@unicornthirteen8237]

A Night cry , a war hoop, a death song? All of the above? Listening this winter of 2020 when I thought I heard it all... Can't wait to listen when the thunder returns! Love you Robbie

[@giacomobianchino7684]

It's all three- the great unsaid Theme of all poetry is, as Alun Lewis (quoting Faiz Ahmed Faiz) once said, "what survives of all the beloved."

[@franwalsh3551]

This song always gets me high.

[@revishon]

i cant seem to get enough of this song.... its like every time i listen to it a black hole takes over that space and it just can't quite be fully perceived. there is a feeling of mystery in the air maybe something forgotten long long ago. just an echo

[@zachelfers1360]

My favorite Basho. Figured out how to play it, tuning is DFDFAC...

[@nugsymalone1247]

You know the "infinite monkey theorem"? Well my friends dad gets really drunk and thinks hes playing guitar when in reality he is just haphazardly plucking open chords and thinks its something. My point is, My friends dad is the monkey to Robbie Basho's Shakespeare. Except it will be a long time before he struggles this masterpiece out of him.

[@Ma_rkw589]

Is right

[@markorefael5888]

Man...Finding this guy made my day....butifull artist.

[@evansgate]

Robbie earned his place in guitar greats for my personal list. Unique and beautiful

[@chadbaptiste4227]

This is such an otherworldly experience.

[@aphidtripper]

Basho finds YOU, sweet cosmic soul music

[@user-zv7yb4yp9g]

the meaning of beauty in music

75th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY TODAY!!! Robbie Basho (August 31, 1940 - February 28, 1986)

[@louisvanrenen947]

I discovered him on KZbin last summer. Original talent of incredible skill and depth. No one like him, but also glad to have discovered Nick Drake, the Van Gogh of modern music, and Sixto Rodriguez, from Detroit of all places, and Karen Dalton, who was only recently discovered though she made a few albums in the seventies. One of her great songs, something on your mind, was written by her acquaintance, Dino Valenti , once the singer of the incomparable San Francisco band, Quick Silver. I should not forget to mention Jackson Frank, who made one album in mid sixties...a masterpiece. Strange to think that all these people could have met, as all had a connection to New York City.

[@tj03297]

Check out Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs if you haven’t already.

[@louisvanrenen947]

@@tj03297 we have both made great discoveries AND have good choices.

[@ekarliah441]

Moving Along With The Thunder and Lightning

[@Majnun74]

I’m glad almost no one knows Basho. It’s our secret🤫

[@latitudepost]

Not anymore - His song Blue Crystal Fire now has 1 million views! Very happy more people are discovering his music and he hasn't faded into complete obscurity.

[@_4200h]

@@latitudepost this makes me very happy

[@nugsymalone1247]

Sorry dude, I have def requested anything by Basho to a local radio station that takes requests. Too beautiful not to share

[@glosaperpleja]

Sencillamente sonrío y mis ojos brillan más cuando escucho a Basho

[@avideepgabhawala2657]

i know this music, i've never heard it before, but i know it

[@rabokarabekian409]

Luisa Rey: "This is the Cloud Atlas Sextet? Record Shop Clerk: "I doubt there's more than a handful of copies in all of North America." Luisa Rey: "But I know it. I know I know it."

[@omomo20]

gorgeous.. music that speaks to the soul

[@unapalomacualquiera]

This is unbelievably good, the guitar is close to his raga pieces, but from the voice I imagine something like a traditional North American chant...but I don't know, might be wrong

[@russelsheartinacage]

I think this piece among many others a absolutely transcendental, and I have the same visions as you about this song

[@davidhall5873]

@@russelsheartinacage wonderful 😁

[@nugsymalone1247]

You can def hear the native american influence in a lot of his work. Its a very earthly spiritual experience I think, and its incredibly executed

[@shantabraamyan3103]

this is actually inspires by the Navajo "night way" chant played on the golden record in space

[@unapalomacualquiera]

@@shantabraamyan3103 Strange, a couple weeks ago I tried to listen to the music contained in the gold record, but couldn't find them. And then I received your reply :0

[@darling_danke_schoen]

Basho had a great pedigree and an incredible talent mixed with a truly unique sound. Added to the fact that fleeting few of us out here seem to know this man’s works makes him a truly hidden gem. I would like to see his back catalogue have a mild explosion of popularity due to being prominently featured in a film, that would be nice. More need to know as I am just discovering

[@1ArtfulBodger]

Robbie was such a cool guitarist.

[@adolfooe2380]

La mejor sus canciones ,energía ,luz y esplendor ,recordando siempre las estrellas.

[@slatan420]

Ive found him through pure luck coming fron a Dayle Stanley video he was a related video. It was falconers arm. And it reminded me of Fahey's playing. Both are special. Michael Hedges must have known of them. It would make sense.

[@youhustlinmeboy4989]

Just found this guy. He's fucking incredible

[@captbanjo1]

1965...maybe ahead of his time for this style. Much like Bob Dylan in that sense; by 1965 he had released Highway 61 Revisited...waaayy out in front of his peers. Funny, I just heard of Basho by reading Fretboard Journal. I thought I knew of all of these kind of players.

[@hannah-io7uy]

happy bday robbie

[@Pitts_not_Pitty]

Robbie's scatting in this piece never ceases to give me goosebumps. PS. DON'T TRUST CHIROPRACTORS

[@PaddyWolfe]

This is unique, eclectic, and just outright beautiful. Color me impressed. :)

[@sparkanotherowl23]

ahhh! so darn good!!!

[@una.mas.y.a.funcionar]

Viaje astral con el preludio.

[@rbdriftin]

Wonderful

[@MrMerlin87]

if i could find a tab book of basho that would be me occupied for the next year

[@andimags]

There's a good Basho archive --very googlable--that has some of the songs in tab & a couple yahoo groups that are devoted to him, and finding out tunings etc. some songs are surprisingly easy to work out bit by bit with knowing the tuning and following with the music. Others.. are not.

[@pedrobrando4606]

I bought a kindle tab book from Italy that is terrible.There is not a single correct note in the transcriptions. In recent years I have studied with the best guitar teacher of my lifetime.We tabbed about 4 or 5 Basho songs and I think we found a better way to play" Blue Crystal Fire" than what several folks on YT demonstrate. We tabbed out" Rodeo" and "German chocolate Cake" dead on.I could send copies by email if you email me a address.

[@sirwhale28]

@@pedrobrando4606 thank you for your generosity. If you wouldn't mind could I have a copy? I need to learn a Basho song before my kid is born and I have not time! c d m o o r e 2 8 @ gmail com

[@Beez0able]

@@pedrobrando4606 I've just happened to see this comment too. Huge Basho fan and I would incredibly grateful if you could share your hard work with me also! Many many thanks jbeesley25 at gmail dot com

[@BjornBols]

For those wondering the tuning in this song is DFCFAC. The main riff type things are done on the high e string, slides from 5 to 9th fret, then 9th to 12th and back to 9th then 7th.

[@ruthking5994]

Sublime

[@barrymoriarty1306]

YES! AND a clever video. excellency

[@bartoszbednarczyk7866]

Amazing.

[@una.mas.y.a.funcionar]

Dios es enorme cuando no tengo ojos. Cuando siento es sólo culpa

[@tommespommes5647]

He's a Shaman...

[@geolab22]

3:13

[@markweightman5616]

correcto

[@markwilliams3174]

I can hear Joni Mitchell's Wolves of Lindsay in the guitar intro

[@marshallmarvin1369]

❤

[@giorgiomarinelli8978]

guitar tuned DFDFAC

[@BjornBols]

Think it is actually DFCFAC

[@giorgiomarinelli8978]

@@BjornBols don't know man

[@Orcastruck]

@@giorgiomarinelli8978true, thanks for atleast saying what you think the tuning is tho

[@greenkhidr2]

Excellent! Whose image? Beautiful paring.

[@slabside72]

F#*K,thank you You KZbin👌

[@Orcastruck]

How do i play this beautiful peice?

[@crowleyanpriestess]

Who else is here because of James Blackshaw?

[@welltoucansamatthatgame]

The lo-fi remix writes itself.

[@alovesupremevanich5068]

...what "cavata"!?

[@ifeelgood2085]

God damn

[@Santalumfiore]

Master