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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 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.
The New Possibility - John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album: Takoma 1971 America: 1972 Of Rivers and Religion: Reprise: 1973 After the Ball: Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) Takoma 1975 Old Fashioned Love: Christmas with John Fahey Vol. II: 1979 John Fahey Visits Washington D.C. 1980 Yes! Jesus Loves Me: 1982
Music critic Richie Unterberger called the film "well done" and respectful, but noted the film "could have been more comprehensive." [5] Writing for The Quietus, Sean Kitching praised the film as a "wonderful, expressionist documentary [that] admirably portrays the many facets of the man behind the music and the myth."
Fare Forward Voyagers received generally positive reviews from music critics. In reviewing the album for Allmusic, Eugene Chadbourne compared it to Indian ragas, but noted a divergence, stating, "the compositions are something in the order of unpredictable miniature symphonies, each with different sections, variations, and developments."
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.
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."