The Essential John Fahey - FLAC

The Essential John Fahey - FLAC
1978
One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar over the last few decades. His music was so eclectic that it's arguable whether he should be defined as a "folk" artist. In a career that saw him issue several dozen albums, he drew from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop. His good friend Dr. Demento has noted that Fahey "was the first to demonstrate that the finger-picking techniques of traditional country and blues steel-string guitar could be used to express a world of non-traditional musical ideas — harmonies and melodies you'd associate with Bartok, Charles Ives, or maybe the music of India." The more meditative aspects of his work foreshadowed new age music, yet Fahey played with a fierce imagination and versatility that outshone any of the guitarists in that category. His idiosyncrasy may have limited him to a cult following, but it also ensured that his work continues to sound fresh.
1 The Yellow Princess
2 View (East from the Top of the Riggs Road/B&O Trestle)
3 Lion
4 March! For Martin Luther King
5 The Singing Bridge of Memphis, Tennessee
6 Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg
7 Charles A. Lee: In Memoriam
8 Irish Setter
9 Commemorative Transfiguration and Communion at Magruder Park
10 Requiem for John Hurt
11 Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper
12 When the Catfish Is in Bloom
13 Fight on Christians, Fight On