John Fahey: Best Of John Fahey 1959 - 1977
Best Of John Fahey 1959 - 1977
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- Label: Ace, 1959-77
- Bestellnummer: 6624769
- Erscheinungstermin: 25.11.2002
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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 the simple act of starting his own record label, Takoma Records, in 1958, John Fahey gave birth to a new musical genre and became the first guitarist-composer. Though his playing is based on ragtime-blues fingerpicking, with the liberal use of riffs from the playing of such blues greats as Charley Patton and Skip James, his methods of composition owe more to modern classical music than the blues. Fahey described this approach as something like "Bartók with syncopation." There is a distinct individuality to the music-it's somehow laden with existential angst, though there's a strong element of religious feeling, too, along with nostalgia for a simpler past. For the original LP, Fahey chose his personal favorites, his definitive performances, many composed while he was still a teenager. For this CD reissue, two of John's long-form guitar pieces--"America" and "Fare Forward Voyagers"-- have been added, as well as his classic "Desperate Man Blues."
(concordmusicgroup. com)
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.
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By the simple act of starting his own record label, Takoma Records, in 1958, John Fahey gave birth to a new musical genre and became the first guitarist-composer. Though his playing is based on ragtime-blues fingerpicking, with the liberal use of riffs from the playing of such blues greats as Charley Patton and Skip James, his methods of composition owe more to modern classical music than the blues. Fahey described this approach as something like "Bartók with syncopation." There is a distinct individuality to the music-it's somehow laden with existential angst, though there's a strong element of religious feeling, too, along with nostalgia for a simpler past. For the original LP, Fahey chose his personal favorites, his definitive performances, many composed while he was still a teenager. For this CD reissue, two of John's long-form guitar pieces--"America" and "Fare Forward Voyagers"-- have been added, as well as his classic "Desperate Man Blues."
(concordmusicgroup. com)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 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 going 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 cornbread 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
John Fahey
Best Of John Fahey 1959 - 1977
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