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John Fahey

The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick  Hear it Now

RS: Not Rated

2006

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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, which ebbs and races like a high-tide parade of sunlit Pacific waves.

DAVID FRICKE

(Posted: Jan 27, 2005)

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