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The Best of John Fahey was reissued on CD in 2002 by Takoma and included three bonus tracks taken from three later albums. It includes liner notes and commentary by such guitarists as Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, Jim O'Rourke, and George Winston, some of whom had recorded numerous Fahey compositions on their own albums or who were once signed to his Takoma label.
Fahey in studio with Recording King guitar, c. 1970 While Fahey lived in Berkeley, Takoma Records was reborn through a collaboration with Maryland friend ED Denson.Fahey decided to track down blues legend Bukka White by sending a postcard to Aberdeen, Mississippi; White had sung that Aberdeen was his hometown, and Mississippi John Hurt had been rediscovered using a similar method.
Twilight on Prince Georges Avenue: Essential Recordings is the title of a compilation recording by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2009. Fahey recorded four albums for Varrick Records, a division of Rounder Records , from which these selections are taken.
The Essential John Fahey: Vanguard: Leo Kottke, Peter Lang & John Fahey: Takoma: 1977 The Best of John Fahey 1959–1977: 1993 The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album/Christmas with John Fahey Vol. 1: Rhino: 1994 The Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology: 1996 The Legend of Blind Joe Death: Takoma 1996 The Best ...
The second volume of The Best of John Fahey was assembled by American guitarist and composer Henry Kaiser.The album included three unreleased tracks from 1991; “Twilight on Prince George’s Avenue,” “Sligo Mud”, and “Tuff” which were assumed to be from an album Fahey recorded for Shanachie Records titled Azalea City Memories that was never released. [1]
American primitive guitar is a fingerstyle guitar music genre, developed by the American guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s. While the term "American primitivism" has been used as a name for the genre, [ 1 ] American primitive guitar is distinct from the primitivism art movement.
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album is a 1968 album by American folk musician John Fahey. It is a collection of solo-guitar arrangements of familiar Christmas songs and has been Fahey's best selling recording, remaining in print since it was first released. The album is especially noteworthy since holiday music had ...
In his Stylus review, music critic Stewart Voegtlin compares the "old" and "new" Fahey, and cited "the most striking music" as those tracks from Georgia Stomps" which provided Fahey "the chance to maintain his moving target status, eschewing big-bodied acoustic for shimmering electric."