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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.
The film gives viewers an understanding of what Fahey's personal world was like, and how he worked as a musician through animation, interviews, video clips, and documentations of Fahey. [ 3 ] The film premiered at the 2012 Raindance Film Festival .
Blind Joe Death is the first album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. There are three different versions of the album, and the original self-released edition of fewer than 100 copies is extremely rare.
I Remember Blind Joe Death is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1987. This album was later disregarded by Fahey, stating the album suffers from sloppy playing due to the Epstein–Barr virus he was suffering from at the time.
The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death is a 1965 album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Originally issued in a hand-lettered edition of 50, it was Fahey's first album to be released by a label other than his own Takoma Records. As with all of Fahey's independently released early albums, it had little critical ...
John Fahey (musician) (1939–2001), American guitarist and composer; John Fahey (equestrian) (born 1943), Australian Olympic equestrian; John Fahey (politician) (1945–2020), Australian politician and president of the World Anti-Doping Agency; John M. Fahey Jr. (fl. 1990s–2010s), CEO and president of the National Geographic Society
The mythical bluesman named Blind Joe Death, first introduced by Fahey on his debut album Blind Joe Death, appears again in the liner notes of The Voice of the Turtle.For years Fahey and Takoma continued to treat the imaginary guitarist as a real person, including booklets with their LPs containing biographical information about him and that he had taught Fahey to play.
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 ...