JF in 1982: “I wrote this song in Hope, Arkansas, one night. I was down there canvassing for old records and I was sitting on the back of my car and didn’t have anything to do, beside the Missouri railroad tracks, and I like to watch trains, and no trains came along. Three or four hours I sat there and waited for a train, and instead of a train coming by I wrote this song”. JF said elsewhere that he took a phrase from Railroad Blues by Sam McGee. Bill Clinton came from Hope, Arkansas. Maybe the 16 or 17 year old Bill was around that day to notice the guy just sitting on his car by t… read more
JF in 1982: “I wrote this song in Hope, Arkansas, one night. I was down there canvassing for old records and I was sitting on the back of my car and … read more
JF in 1982: “I wrote this song in Hope, Arkansas, one night. I was down there canvassing for old records and I was sitting on the back of my car and didn’t have anything to do, beside th… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate classical, Portugue… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style ha… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been descri… read more