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Previously overlooked talents like Vashti Bunyan and Judee Sill serve as songwriting models for today's indie-folk boom, but acoustic-guitar master John Fahey may be the movement's most crucial instrumental inspiration. From the early Sixties to his death in 2001, Fahey had the musical curiosity and chops to shape folk, blues, classical, country, psychedelia, Indian ragas and several strains of experimentation into his own highly individual designs. Yet like many tribute albums, I Am the Resurrection is dwarfed by its subject. Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Grandaddy and others perform ably but can't approach Fahey's intensity or dexterity -- the traces of his virtuosity dissipate into merely pleasant, mostly instrumental background blandness.
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Track List
- Death of the Clayton Peacock
- Sunflower River Blues
- Variation On 'Commemorative Transfiguration and Communion at Magruder Park'
- Sligo River
- Dance of Death
- The Singing Bridge of Memphis, Brooklyn Bridge Version: The Coelcanth
- Bean Vine Blues
- The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, CA
- Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain
- Joe Kirby Blues
- Medley: John Hurt Shiva Shankarah
- When the Catfish Is In Bloom
- My Grandfather's Clock
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