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And then there are those to whom deserved recognition never comes. John Fahey redefined any concept on what acoustic guitar music should sound like. He did not survive a Quint by-pass and as his story goes, died in a motel in Oregon surrounded by friends. RIP

Brett Munson

The mold was broken on Fahey.

richard hegeman

gawd---how great he was -- :o)

Machete Moonlight

this is my favorite Fahey tune, and I'm going to die trying to play it on guitar half as good as him. 

AccurateCrabLegs

I dance nude in my garage to this song.

Charlie Leger

I'm surprised Mr.Fahey didn't sing like Charley Patton.(( once in a while anyway) If he did, i would love to hear it. Patton was such a Great singer> Didn't John write his dissertation on The music of Charley Patton? I. not sure but.. Fahey is my hero musician.

JubalCalif

Awesome and Amazing !! 

Charlie Leger

john lennon was the best at doing what did, john fahey is the best at doing what he did.

Mark Seibold

@John White- I was driving in my car in I think late 1998 or early 1999, when a local radio station in my home town of Portland OR, announced that John Fahey would play for free this afternoon in the Eastside Music Millennium Record Store where I had bought many recordings over the years. I raced there to find people standing out the front door to get in. I politely wedged my way through the crowd and walked to the upstairs. The place was jam-packed as I looked down to the lower level, a grungy street bum looking guy moseyed in the front door. He was disheveled and wore a tee-shirt with stains and holes all over it and carrying a well worn guitar case. It was Fahey in his finest form. He sat down and looked upstairs to us, asking if someone had a spark plug or a screwdriver or a wrench. An employee in the store tossed down a screwdriver, I think it was. Fahey picked it up off the floor and began scratching the guitar strings in an unstructured ambient form for maybe 10 minutes. Then he set the screwdriver down and began to play Oh Come All Ye Faithful in the finest classical traditional playing that I have ever witnessed live. There were people in the crowd literally in tears. He played a few more of his favorite compositions for maybe a half hour, then everyone lined up to buy his new CD, City of Refuge and he autographed an 8 X 10 glossy portrait of himself with sunglasses to go with the purchase, as I'm sure you've all seen it on that CD inside liner notes and other online sites. I had to shake his hand and tell him how honored I was to meet him and watch him play for my first time, [little did I know then it would be my last] and I asked him what he thought of recording Leo Kottke. I am still mesmerized today 16 years later as I recount this experience on that cool grey rainy day there. I accidentally saved a stack of old New York Times in my home, packing up to recycle one day in early 2001, and accidentally paged across the obituary of John Fahey, not knowing that he passed away several months earlier that year in a Salem Oregon hospital near my home town of Portland Oregon. Still today, as I read this obituary, I weep at the raw humanity of this mans truth. Here is that obituary, that I still have the copy of today with the small photo of Fahey at the top, (this is the NY Times electronic archive version without photo). > ttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/nyregion/john-fahey-61-guitarist-and-an-iconoclast-is-dead.html 

Steven Roberts

Unbelievable.

Steven Roberts

Unbelievable.

khuntfhais

According to an interview with Stefan Grossman, he wrote this at 'around fourteen'. Seeing his first record at 20, i'm inclined to believe it.

James Boelter

I got hold of the tablature for this song and discovered that the open tuning in "G" actually makes this fairly simple to play. But I never played it this well, or with this amount of soul. Man, what a composer and performer he was!

terrypussypower

Fahey can make grown men cry.

treetoptop

How did you rate the last show you saw by him? Thank you

malbuff

Like another of my favorite guitarists, John Cipollina, Faheny's technique is all about the right hand. Brilliant unorthodox playing, and that doesn't even take into account his rich musical vocabulary and incredible sense of timing.

Will W

While Fahey's spirit was musically rich, this guy was severely underpaid.

John White

Feel blessed to have been to a half- dozen of his concerts during my years in Seattle. From the first one at the UofW in '68, to the last one at a Ballard club just a few years before his death.

superstarajl

this is so good. i keep coming back to it. as a piece of music, just gorgeous, and really not like too much else out there.

Machete Moonlight

lyrically, yes.