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# The Best Of John Fahey 1959-1977

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Brilliant!
  

*by B***R on September 10, 2014*









  
  
    If you don't already know Fahey's work, or  want to hear this innovative player at the top of his fingerstyle phase, this is the place to start. Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist is also highly recommended, paints quite a picture . . .
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    not exactly a review...but...
  

*by K***N on November 22, 2009*









  
  
    I have spent some time lately listening to a couple of Windham Hill and Narada antholgies.And I hereby promise that it will never happen again!Very high quality technically recorded, nicely presented and packaged and introducing some ofthe very most skilled craftsmen on the guitar today.And what is presented on those records will, with a few exceptions, make a nice backgroundsound tapestry in any shopping center or elevator...To try to compare these with the album that is on review here, The Best of John Fahey 1959-1977,would be like trying to compare Liberace with Glenn Gould....there are thousands of light yearsbetween them!I am usually not very fond of anthologies type "Best Of..." but this one have some points worthyof mentioning.  The original vinyl version was issued in 1977 in that period when Fahey was selling out his recordcompany to Chrysalis. The reason for its issue could most likely have been because of the fact thatthe early "Death albums" were no longer reprinted since circa 1972 and the later 60s albums were alsoout of print since circa 1975 and finally America and Fare Forwards had survived only the originalTAKOMA issues in one edition each. So by 1977 most of the old TAKOMA catalogue was out of print!Therefore this issue authorized by Fahey and the selection of the music to be included was made byhimself.... which makes this  almost to be considered as a classic original TAKOMA Fahey album!The original vinyl issue had the first 15 tracks presented here and the cd reissue adds tracks 16to 18.This album concentrates heavily, especially if viewing the original vinyl,  on music from the firstthree TAKOMA albums, Blind Joe Death, Death Chants and Dance of Death. And especially noteworthy isthat here is no material from the Christmas Albums and neither from the two albums from end 60s TheGreat San Bernardino Birthday Party and Days Have Gone By. On the other hand two numbers are presentfrom the Fahey/Kottke/Lang anthology from just two years earlier and which still was in print!  Andthese two are rerecordings of titles originally from Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death and Days HaveGone By.The cd reissue, which actually is the one on review here, then also includes one track each from Americaand Fare Forwards Voyagers.Added is also Desperate man Blues from Dance of Death.The music itself here has been dealt with in more or less detail in other reviews so it seems no pointin repeating but that it is of course absolutely magnificent... and some slight further margin remarks:A few notes "about this and that": The title "1959-1977" is somewhat misleading as the oldest recordingspresent here are from 1964! They are the selections from Dance of Death, which were recorded in AdelphiStudios in Maryland  august 1964, and not as is stated in the liner notes on this cd at Sierra SoundsBerkeley in 1967!The mentioning of 1959 in the title most surely refer to the fact that the original issue of Blind JoeDeath was from 1959 but rerecorded and rererecorded in the 60s (for those interested I recommend readingmy review on The Legend of Blind Joe Death).One interesting thing about track 11, Give me Cornbread When I'm Hungry, is that it is missing its coda!  That story goes as follows: Original vinyl issue and reprints up to early 70's had a somewhat loosely attached "coda " or "finale" which was Fahey's rendition of Doc Boggs' Country Blues aka Darling Corey.This was never specified in the titles lists of those records. But somewhere along the line on latereditions,this charming piece of music disappeared...never to return again!  For Fahey collectors, for sake of completion, worth mentioning is that track 12 and track 15 are 1977rerecordings of  earlier 1962 Dance of the Inhabitants , with a somewhat broader and more majestic sound  and also somewhat speedier tempo in this rerecording,  and 1973 Hawaiian Two-step, here titled Spanish  Two-Step, from Reprise Records After The Ball, which is in fact Fahey's  rendition of John Dilleshaw's  Spanish Fandango from the 20s, and not a Fahey original as sometimes is proposed.As a detail of curiosity...and too much curiosity can kill the cat (just ask Erwing Schrodinger on that  topic!)...I am utterly curios to the fact why there never were any specified recording datas for the Fahey music  on the Fahey/Kottke/Lang anthology...not on that record itself and neither on the two tracks included here!  They are Revolt of the Dyke Brigade rerecorded from Days Have Gone By and On the Sunny Side Of the Ocean  rerecorded from Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death.  And  it is fascinating that Fahey always was able to  perform such impeccable beautiful versions of older material more than ten years after first presented!My proposition is that these two are outtakes from the America recording session at Larrabee Studios 1971...  but too much curiosity can have serious consequences for the poor cat!And while still on the subject of the America sessions...Henry Kaiser suggests in his otherwise very nice  liner notes, that the composition America is Fahey's only recorded work performed on 12-string guitar.It is true that America already from its earliest recorded version 1963 and then via the 1967  and finally  the 1971 version undoubtedly was for 12-string guitar. But let us not forget that the 1965 ELEKTRA Fahey Sampler  "Themes and Variations", which is in fact When the Springtime Comes Again included here, on its  way to becoming the epic Mark I:15, is performed on 12-string. And also that on The Downfall of the Adelphi  Rolling Grist Mill of 1962 Fahey performs on 12-string in duet with flautist Nancy McLean. And finally that  Fahey on at least one or more of the recordings for Fonotone from 1958 and onwards performed on 12-string  guitar!Aside from some small discrepancies, dealt with above, the liner notes are nice, also included respects payed  by some of Fahey's contemporaries... Kottke, Lang, Winston etc.And I really enjoyed the final writings  "Roots"  by Fahey himself....a reminder of those insane hilarious  liner notes he used to write for the early Takoma albums...This is in fact a very good compilation....for those not familiar with Fahey it is an excellent introduction  to his early albums and for those already hooked...the  two rerecordings not earlier available...Put Your Past Ahead Of You...said chief karlssonP.S. It is very peculiar that when I have finished a manuscript on Amazon and really checked out the margins and distances between lines etc. It still looks like crap when finally entered!!
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    he's good..
  

*by H***G on April 27, 2018*









  
  
    Lord, he's good...
  


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