029667981521

The Best Of John Fahey 1959-1977 (Jewel Case)

John Fahey

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDTAK8915

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Format Details: Jewel Case

Release Date:  25 November 2002

Label:  Takoma

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  029667981521

Genres:  Rock  Folk  

  • Description

    Captain Beefheart once commented how much he loved painting the desert because it was "subtle, so subtle". The same can also be said of John Fahey's guitar playing. The work collected for this Best Of has a unity of approach that defies the eighteen-year period it draws on without ever seeming static. Constantly shifting melodically, tonally and harmonically, the music develops through subtle intuition rather than creative leaps and bounds. The sacred tunes - In Christ There Is No East Or West, I'm Going To Do All I Can For My Lord - possess a haunting beauty that is echoed in more recent contemporary experimental work such as Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Poor Boy (Long Ways From Home) and Fare Forward Voyagers remain two of Fahey's classic performances, here given serious competition from sixteen other brilliant recordings by John Crosby

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Sunflower River Blues
      • 2. St Louis Blues
      • 3. Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
      • 4. When The Springtime Comes Again
      • 5. Some Summer Day
      • 6. Spanish Dance
      • 7. Take A Look At That Baby
      • 8. I'm Gonna To Do All I Can For My Lord
      • 9. The Last Steam Engine Train
      • 10. In Christ There Is No East Or West
      • 11. Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry
      • 12. Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain
      • 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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