John Fahey

Mr. Turtles

record store dork music

He copied Radiohead.

Reading Suttree by Cormac McCarthy atm, perfect soundtrack to the shenanigans that rascal gets upto in 50's knoxville

гений, конечно, причём дело даже не в технике, хотя и постоянно задаёшься вопросом СУКА КАК?, а в эффекте рождения самой что ни на есть психоделии на пустом месте, из плохой и крайне аскетичной записи фолк-блюзов девятнадцатого века как бы внезапно возникает абсолютно удивительная трепетная красота, неудивительно, что фэи всю жизнь держал за говно джерри гарсию и когда тот подох, три дня бухал на радостях, это не зависть, а презрение, которое вызывает профан у опытного адепта, ничего личного, ну и да — книжку его советую очень купить, пока есть в продаже, гарик осипов перевёл на редкость добросовестно и с уважением к подлиннику.

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Fahey was not only a wonderfully  — and quite conciously — unreliable narrator of his own life and experience, he was also an unreliable curator of his own art. He's not really interested in chronology or formal linear coherence. He distrustful of canons and notions of artist progress or cultural purity. He wants to do "earnest" and studious musicology better than the earnest and studious around, only to blow it up in everyone's faces. He knew before he ever set foot in Mississippi too 'find' Bukka White, that the whole pursuit was folly. But he does it anyway if only to reveal the folly from the inside out. Fahey always sailed closed to cynicism, but in his art he (mostly) never passed over the edge.

goat

That out of tune

this nigga

John Fahey with a symphony or chamber orchestra would have been interesting. He would never have done it, and even in the unlikely event that he had, he would have hated it and trashed it at a later stage. Such was John F.

love john fahey from: a john fahey fan

i love the contrast of the last two shouts

I sometimes chat with Melody Fahey on Facebook. Honour and a privilege.

Do you think he had above average fingerbanging ability or is that just a myth perpetrated by bigots and gypsies?

It's hard to believe he's been dead more than 20 years.

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chora viola

Hey how’s it goin

Genius.

one of my favorite musicians

The introduction to What the Sun Said is like Marx's "dead generations [that] weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living". It feel so very weighty. Few musicians and no guitarist has the gravitas and heavy mass of Fahey playing: it's laden with significance, tradition and future possibilities.

legendary

Goat

one of the best guitarists of all time

best guitarist of all time

Give me cornbread when I'm hungry

the dean dub is very underrated

Oh man, I used to listen to this guy back when LastFM was young and popular, and the site's radio was free, and my taste was so amorphous I tried many things I later discarded. John Fahey was among them, but what a mistake! A friend recommended him to me recently, and while I generally listen to very little instrumental music (I'm a sucker for vocals), his playing is the superbly expressive kind of instrumental music I can enjoy. And boy, I'm enjoying it!

Его жизненный путь воспринимается как законченный и лишённый избыточности текст, что роднит Фэи с Летовым. В то же время, трагедийность мировосприятия, более чем явственно отражённая в музыке, даёт возможность поставить его в один с Платоновым и, возможно, Шаламовым.

Blind Joe? He used to work for me in the cypress groves. But he left a few days ago. Said he was going to make records for somebody or other. Didn't even know he was a musician. Funny isn't it. Hope he does all right. He was a nice old guy.

From the first notes, you know you are going to enjoy yourself. Such an amazing talent. I love the genre, but Fahey especially. It just gives you this smokey mystique, this beautiful imagery, just from notes on a guitar. Incredible.

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https://kindlingthebonfires.bandcamp.com/album/campaign-of-rituals 'I don't try to follow the masters; I try to ask the same questions they asked.' Okay, maybe I'm following a little, but hear for yourself ;-)

John Fahey was a badass.

Deep bow.

the strings cry out "America!" poor boy

i love you john

West Coast Blues is the greatest american folk song of all time

rapaz...

The Mill Pond is actually amazing.

As músicas de John Fahey tem o poder de me transportar para lugares bucólicos e ensolarados onde a solidão ganha outro significado.

outstanding

almost as good as lil wayne

He was almost as good a guitarist as pvmnt

U WISH KIDDOS

He was almost as good a guitarist as me.[2]

How could someone not like listening to John Fahey? Salem, OR represent!