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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.
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."
[5] David Dunlap, Jr. of the Washington City Paper wrote the box set "portrays Fahey, the American Primitive, a musician both vulgar and elegant, as the brilliant, beautiful mess that he was." [ 2 ] Marc Medwin of Dusted Magazine wrote "If ever there was a box set to which the old chestnut “Warts and All” applied, it’s Your Past Comes ...
The album's notes indicate that its tracks were "recorded circa 1995/96, mostly in John Fahey's room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse". [1] Tracks A3, A4, B2, and B3 were originally released in 1996 as Double 78 by Perfect Records .
“Requiem For Mississippi John Hurt” overflows with triumph and joy, the opening of “When The Catfish Is In Bloom” is so rich and regal you want to put your hand over your heart." [ 2 ] Mark Richardson refers to "Catfish" as "[it] sounds about 200 years old and parts of it probably are, as references to marching spirituals slowly pile up ...
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.
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 ...