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February 23, 2001

Guitarist John Fahey Dead

Legendary guitarist, indie-label head John Fahey dead at sixty-one

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The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick

These live tapes date from the late Sixties, when the folk-blues guitarist was at the height of his alchemical powers. Fahey's fingerpicking is a miracle orchestra of melody and filigree, and his sublime distention of traditional forms blooms in original fantasias such as the oddly named title piece...

2004 RS: Not Rated

City of Refuge

1997

Live in Tasmania

1981

Of Rivers and Religion

1972

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Biography

John Fahey preferred album titles like Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes, and Blind Joe Death, suggesting either a dark private humor or plain morbid fixation, but this Maryland guitarist's forte is music of an exhilarating, almost rapturous beauty. Uplifting or soothing, tinged with melancholy, his sets of country blues, Scotch-Irish folk, or classically derived melodies showcase...

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