John Fahey has created a unique body of guitar compositions and arrangements as well as a distinct approach to fingerstyle guitar He broke fresh ground in recording guitar music that drew from such ...

Vol. 4 - The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party and Other Excursions represents archival material culled from the early to mid-60’s by legendary acoustic guitar pioneer John Fahey who melded ...

The author, with his Fahey collection. Krist Novoselic is a regular contributor to Reveb and writes a column about music and politics for the Daily Weekly.It was in 1985 when I first heard the guitar ...

2001-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Salem, Ore.-- John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Mr ...

Last year Fantasy Records released The Best of John Fahey Vol. 2: 1963-1983, positioning it as an overdue follow-up to a Fahey best-of from 1977. Fahey, the founding father of the “American primitive” ...

To listen to John Fahey's steel-string guitar ruminations was to be transported to a world where death was more vibrant than life, where the sorrow and grief at the heart of the blues were transformed ...

John Fahey, 61, the Takoma Park native whose unorthodox and dazzling fingerpicking on the steel-string guitar helped spawn an acoustic blues revival in the 1960s and whose idiosyncratic compositions ...

There's a restless quality to Glenn Jones' music that starts with the guitarist himself. Jones doesn't just write songs; he makes up a new way of tuning the guitar for each one. "For me, inventing a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Led by drummer José Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Revival Drum Shop), Railroad ...

You can’t talk about American Primitive without talking about John Fahey. And you can’t talk about John Fahey without talking about his hometown of Takoma Park. For Fahey, whose first recordings on ...

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