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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 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 Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology is a compilation album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1994. Fahey's career, health and personal life had been in decline. The release of The Return of the Repressed, along with an article in Spin magazine by Byron Coley served to provide a renewal of ...
The notes on The Dance of Death included an extensive discography and the basic theme of the notes is the search for John Fahey and his musical legacy: "Prior to his discovery in 1958 by a Takoma research team Fahey had played as a guitarist for a bluegrass band; often appearing with Bill Hancock and Greg Eldridge, but no recordings are known ...
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 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 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 .
Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1992. It also marked the end of an era for Fahey, who would soon be involved in a downward spiral in his personal life, health and career.