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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.
He also created a series of abstract paintings in his final years. Fahey died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he was ranked 35th on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. [3] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Fahey as 40th greatest guitarist of all time. [4]
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 ...
All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise noted. "Desperate Man Blues" (Traditional) – 4:01 "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain" – 2:33 "Sligo River Blues" – 2:37 "Sun Gonna Shine in My Back Door Someday Blues" – 4:39 "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues" – 3:59 "I'm Gonna Do All I Can for My Lord" – 1:26
The second volume of The Best of John Fahey was assembled by American guitarist and composer Henry Kaiser.The album included three unreleased tracks from 1991; “Twilight on Prince George’s Avenue,” “Sligo Mud”, and “Tuff” which were assumed to be from an album Fahey recorded for Shanachie Records titled Azalea City Memories that was never released. [1]
[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 Back to Haunt You. No one knows that better than Glenn Jones, the long-time John Fahey enthusiast and a compiler of this five-disc compendium of Fahey’s earliest recordings.
The Best of the Vanguard Years contains the complete album The Yellow Princess and all of Requia except for "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 1" and "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 2". ". Vanguard had previously released both albums with modified track listings in 1974 on The Essential John Fahey (both differing LP and CD versions) and would again in 2007 with a different combination of tracks on Vanguard Vi
Richie Unterberger called it "...a testament to Fahey's mastery of the tunes" and "a solid addition to the John Fahey canon". [1] Referring to the time period of the live performance, Bill Meyer of Dusted Magazine writes "...no matter how much I admire Fahey’s determination to keep his creativity alive and appreciate some of what came out of ...