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John Fahey

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2003 - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today
2000 - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions
1997 - Womblife
1997 - City of Refuge
1994 - Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year's
1992 - Railroad
1992 - Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories
1989 - God, Time and Causality
1988 - Rain Forest, Oceans, and Other Themes
1987 - I Remember Blind Joe Death
1984 - Let Go
1982 - Christmas Guitar, Volume One
1980 - Yes! Jesus Loves Me: Guitar Hymns
1975 - Christmas With John Fahey, Volume II
1974 - Leo Kottke / Peter Lang / John Fahey
1974 - Old Fashioned Love
1973 - After the Ball
1973 - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
1972 - Of Rivers and Religion
1971 - America
1968 - The Voice of the Turtle
1968 - The Yellow Princess
1968 - The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Albu
1968 - Requia
1967 - John Fahey, Volume 6 / Days Have Gone By
1967 - Volume 3, The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
1965 - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
1959 - Blind Joe Death

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Blues

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Folk

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1939

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1939 to Present...

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4 users John Fahey - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
4 users John Fahey - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
4 users John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues
4 users John Fahey - Poor Boy
4 users John Fahey - Poor Boy


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John Fahey (February 28, 1939–February 22, 2001) combined American folk, blues, Indian raga, 20th century modernism and European classical into a musical gestalt he called “American Primitive”, establishing a form of classical music (“concert music” as he conceptualized it) for solo steel-string acoustic guitar with the emotive and compositional complexity of kindred classical forms from Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Indic, Malian and other traditions. His efforts to elevate his instrument in this way ran in parallel to his British counterparts like Davey Graham and John Renbourn.

Widely heralded as one of the greatest fingerstyle guitarists of all time, it is rare to find a solo fingerstyle steel-string acoustic guitarist worth their salt that does not cite Fahey as an influence. A very diverse array of artists, including Slint, Cul de Sac (with whom he has also collaborated on a 1997 record), Sonic Youth, and Jim O’Rourke also acknowledge his influence.

Late in his life he began recording increasingly experimental music.


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