In case it wasn't clear, I was asking about sonicl rather than Herr Conners.

I got a ton of stuff by this guy. A lot of it is really good, but it doesn't really stay with me after I turn it off.

Conners work requires a lot of time - both in terms of the work unwinding and for the listener to pay attention.

What really turned me around was his "rock" band, Haunted House (I think I saw them open for Lee and William Hooker once), man this is some tasty stuff - deep and wrenching - for a new listener things tend to happen faster and of course there is a full band. I highly recommend the Haunted House CD. Wish I could tell you anything it sounds like...really damaged heavy electric blues guitar

is there any footage on youtube that would be good for the unconverted?

mmmr is another one i have that i didn't get anything out of

It's only a tiny sample, but I'd say listen to the audio clip from the Night Through collection for a little taste, here: http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/a...+langille.html

Then buy it.

I think Haunted House is by far his best stuff..

the guy has a billion L(M)C releases, and three Haunted House releases, two of which are ultra-limited (ed. of 30 and 100). and that's 'by far his best stuff.'

love it.

I always liked calling him Mazola Conners, but then, that's just me....

The ed of 30 was included in Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004. This discography also includes a listing for a Haunted House VHS tape!

http://www.fvrec.com/lorenconnors/discography.php

Haunted House – Blue Ghost Blues



Artist: Haunted House
Title: Blue Ghost Blues
Catalog Number: NS 012
Format: CD, LP, MP3, FLAC
Street Date: September 13th, 2011

The blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist Andrew Burnes left New York for Georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of Haunted House. In the time since, a new generation — sometimes referred to as Freak Folk or New Weird America and spearheaded by Tom Carter*, Jack Rose and Ben Chasny — has followed in the footsteps of Loren Connors, John Fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat.
After the demise of Haunted House, Connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife — the enigmatic singer Suzanne Langille — to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. Then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: Burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist Neel Murgai was available, and the Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. The band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. Another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 Erstwhile release Up in Flames.

Looking back, maybe it isn’t that the blues has grown up. Maybe it has reverted to its youth. After all, John Lee Hooker, Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell weren’t beholden to any 12-bar fixity. Nor was Lonnie Johnson, whose song “Haunted House” gave the band its name. They all played it how they felt it. It wasn’t until the 1960s and the British blues revival (its champion, ironically perhaps, being Connors’ beloved Eric Clapton) that the blues was codified into its current formula.

Haunted House is an unusual band. With Indian hand percussion and no bass, they don’t look like a blues band — and maybe they’re not. But they play it how they feel it. What more could you ask for?

Featured Artists:
Loren Connors: guitar
Andrew Burnes: guitar
Suzanne Langille: vocals
Neel Murgai: daf

This is a good one, and made me dig out my live tapes of them...maybe I should have bought the CD so I don't have to flip it