John Fahey University Of Washington 1973
Recorded: Jan. or Feb. 1973
Location : University Of Washington Seattle, WA
Source: FM Radio Broadcast of KOL FM
Format: [email protected]
John Fahey has been a mercurial and eccentric presence in the American music world for almost four decades. Only 95 copies were ever made of Fahey's first plunge into music recording, a self-released album of instrumental guitar songs known as Blind Joe Death (1959), yet the album eventually became known as "the most famous obscure album of recent times," according to the New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Such ironies became hallmarks of Fahey's career. Many of his subsequent recordings are regarded as seminal testaments to the beauty of the acoustic guitar, and Spin contributor Byron Coley called Fahey "as monumental and singular a musical talent as any this country has produced." Despite such critical acclaim, however, the guitarist has been saddled with struggles against illness, excessive drinking, and economic uncertainty. By the mid-1990s Fahey, regarded by many as the father of what is sometimes called the contemporary fingerpicking guitar style, could be found living in a series of welfare motels and Salvation Army locales.
Fahey was born on February 28, 1939, in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Setlist:
01. DJ Intro
02. Thus Krishna on the Battefield, Fare Forward Voyagers
03. Dance of The Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain
04. Sunflower River Blues, Revolt of the Dyke Brigade, Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt
05. Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania Alabama Border, In Christ there is no East or West, Beverly
06. DJ Outro
