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Track List
01) Sunflower River Blues
02) St. Louis Blues
03) Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
04) When the Springtime Comes Again
05) Some Summer Day
06) Spanish Dance
07) Take a Look at That Baby
08) I'm Going to Do All I Can for My Lord
09) The Last Steam Engine Train
10) In Christ There Is No East or West
11) Give Me Cornbread When I'm Hungry
12) Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of Ki
13) Revolt of the Dyke Brigade
14) On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
15) Spanish Two‐Step
16) America
17) Fare Forward Voyagers
18) Desperate Man Blues
01) Sunflower River Blues
02) St. Louis Blues
03) Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
04) When the Springtime Comes Again
05) Some Summer Day
06) Spanish Dance
07) Take a Look at That Baby
08) I'm Going to Do All I Can for My Lord
09) The Last Steam Engine Train
10) In Christ There Is No East or West
11) Give Me Cornbread When I'm Hungry
12) Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of Ki
13) Revolt of the Dyke Brigade
14) On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
15) Spanish Two‐Step
16) America
17) Fare Forward Voyagers
18) Desperate Man Blues
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First Released
1977
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The Best of John Fahey 1959–1977 is a compilation album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1977. The songs are collected from four of Fahey's dozen or so releases up to that point.
The original album consisted of tracks picked out by Fahey for the release, with two tracks "Spanish Two-Step" (called "Hawaiian Two-Step" on After the Ball) and "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain" re-recorded for the album.
The Best of John Fahey music folio.
For the original release Guitar Player Magazine released a matching music folio of tablature for guitar. It also contained essays by Fahey, continuation of the tale of Blind Joe Death, and an ongoing story which meandered across the pages and the page margins throughout the book. In the introduction Fahey wrote:
"While technique is important, it is only part of the story. Music is a language—a language of emotions. The worst possible way to play these songs—and I am not only talking about my own compositions—is in metronome time at a uniform volume. Another terrible thing would be to play any composition the same way every time, or to feel that you have to play it exactly the way someone else, such as myself, played it or said to play it. A good technician must also be creative. Even if a person is not a composer, he can interpret and arrange, and these skills are as important as technique in making a performance interesting. I rely heavily on both technique and interpretation, and I think of myself as a very good composer, arranger, and plagiarest for the solo acoustic guitar"
The book is no longer in print.
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The original album received five stars in both editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide.[5][8]
Music critic Richie Unterberger called attention to Rhino's two-CD The Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology as "...a wider-spanning, lengthier chronological overview that's preferable for those wanting a fuller appreciation of [Fahey's] work." Unterberger also noted that "...what's here is good, important acoustic guitar music combining folk, blues, Americana, and unclassifiably weird originality, although it gives short shrift to some of his odder, more experimental 1960s and 1970s work."[3]
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The Best of John Fahey 1959–1977 is a compilation album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1977. The songs are collected from four of Fahey's dozen or so releases up to that point.
The original album consisted of tracks picked out by Fahey for the release, with two tracks "Spanish Two-Step" (called "Hawaiian Two-Step" on After the Ball) and "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain" re-recorded for the album.
The Best of John Fahey music folio.
For the original release Guitar Player Magazine released a matching music folio of tablature for guitar. It also contained essays by Fahey, continuation of the tale of Blind Joe Death, and an ongoing story which meandered across the pages and the page margins throughout the book. In the introduction Fahey wrote:
"While technique is important, it is only part of the story. Music is a language—a language of emotions. The worst possible way to play these songs—and I am not only talking about my own compositions—is in metronome time at a uniform volume. Another terrible thing would be to play any composition the same way every time, or to feel that you have to play it exactly the way someone else, such as myself, played it or said to play it. A good technician must also be creative. Even if a person is not a composer, he can interpret and arrange, and these skills are as important as technique in making a performance interesting. I rely heavily on both technique and interpretation, and I think of myself as a very good composer, arranger, and plagiarest for the solo acoustic guitar"
The book is no longer in print.
User Album Review
The original album received five stars in both editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide.[5][8]
Music critic Richie Unterberger called attention to Rhino's two-CD The Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology as "...a wider-spanning, lengthier chronological overview that's preferable for those wanting a fuller appreciation of [Fahey's] work." Unterberger also noted that "...what's here is good, important acoustic guitar music combining folk, blues, Americana, and unclassifiably weird originality, although it gives short shrift to some of his odder, more experimental 1960s and 1970s work."[3]
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