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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."
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 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 ...
John and Colleen Fahey's daughter, Tiffany, was killed in a road accident, at the age of 27, on 26 December 2006. John and Colleen Fahey became the legal guardians of Tiffany's children, Campbell and Amber. His son, the eldest of three children, is Matthew Fahey and his elder daughter is Melanie Fahey. [19] [20]
At the time, Fahey was divorced from his second wife and was living in homeless shelters or cheap hotels. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] City of Refuge was Fahey's first release in over five years and helped start his career resurgence, although it bears minimal resemblance to his earlier work.
Leo Kottke/Peter Lang/John Fahey was released to help gain greater exposure for Fahey and Lang as well as the label itself. [2] Each guitarist plays four solo pieces. The Fahey tracks are re-recordings of four well-known Fahey songs. [2] Kottke would later re-record "Cripple Creek" and "Ice Miner" (on Mudlark).
In his original liner notes, Fahey wrote "Since 1948, after seeing the movie, The Thief of Bagdad, I composed cerebral symphonies every day. It was a pleasant pastime. It was a pleasant pastime. But suddenly in 1953 I needed a full orchestra at my command—me playing every instrument in that impossible ensemble."