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America is an album by American folk musician John Fahey, released in 1971. Originally intended to be a double album , it was released as a single LP . The unreleased material was subsequently restored in later CD and vinyl reissues.
John Aloysius Fahey (/ ˈ f eɪ h i / FAY-hee; [1] February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.
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
[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 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 Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1966.The cover simply labels the album Guitar Vol. 4 (it was his fourth release on his own Takoma label, but his fifth album) while the liner notes label it The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions.
Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) (or simply, Fare Forward Voyagers) is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1973. It contains three songs, one comprising a complete side of the original LP.
“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 ...