Who loves John Fahey like me?

ElGuapo · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:15 pm

Me...and my son who is obsessed with him.

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:38 pm

Drinky Wrote:

Fahey even sings on one of those tracks (as Blind Thomas, I think or as part of another group).

Anyone ever read his writing? Really creative with words too, that guy.

FT · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:38 pm

Oh, wait...you said JOHN. My bad.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:23 pm

jsh Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

Fahey even sings on one of those tracks (as Blind Thomas, I think or as part of another group).

Anyone ever read his writing? Really creative with words too, that guy.

Drinky-- I'm pretty sure a few tracks are from the Fonotone since the boxset focuses on that era and the recordings issued from Joe Bussard.

Jsh-- I've read "How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life". It was OOP for awhile, but looks like its readily available. Want to read "Vampire Vultures".

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:33 pm

Yeah, I don't think I've read any of his writing. Would be interested in checking some of it out.

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:25 pm

Definitely recommend "How Bluegrass Destroyed My Life", particularly the short story "Honey" from what I remember, but haven't read "Vampire Vultures.

k · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:07 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

Looks intriguing:

John Fahey - The Fonotone Years

This looks fantastic. Nothing really more to be said about it.

As for the writings, like most of y'all said, all I have read is "How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life," and I remember liking it a good bit.

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:22 pm

has anyone come across the fonotone years comp yet? i'm dying to hear it.

(i was able to dl it from an indietorrents torrent yesterday, but for some reason the files won't play, as with anything i've dl'd from that site actually...?)

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:29 pm

Yep. I want.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:33 pm

Reviews have been incredible (naturally). Was hoping it would be on spotify. No dice.

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:36 pm

can't vouch for the links still working, but here

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:45 pm

seems to work! i love you.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:03 am

Glenn Jones, picking up the John Fahey legacy from Washington Post.

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:43 pm

btw, this is f'n great! nothing i'd rather be listening to this time of year.

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:54 am

OK, so here's my new prize possession. Glimpsed it while perusing Sonic Boom in Toronto and listening to William Tyler – whose record is also good, and fits in this thread – on Record Store Day. As if I hadn't already dropped enough coin that day, I had to have it. And will probably be replacing my janky turntable, lest a wonky needle touch this perfection. Several of my favourite records that I never expected to find in one package. Nicely done 4 Men With Beards.

http://www.othermusic.com/products/john-fahey-the-transcendental-waterfall-guitar-excursions-1962-67-6lp-box-set-4-men-with-beards

seafoam · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:33 pm

Anyone familiar with Steve Gunn material?

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:05 pm

pretty funny you should bump this particular thread seafoam, as i was just looking at this yesterday. i fell pretty hard down the rabbit hole the last couple days. started off with Hiss Golden Messenger, which led me to William Tyler and then the Golden Gunn (Hiss Golden Messenger + Steve Gunn) album that came out for RSD. from there Steve Gunn's solo ablums (he has a new one coming out this spring) + Gunn-Truscinski Duo and then i landed on the Tompkins Square Label website....whoo boy.

needless to say i am up to my ears in stuff to check out, and i have yet to even hear a note of fahey, basho, jack rose, et al.

i'm currently listening to Daniel Bachman's Seven Pines album. pretty killer stuff.

so anyways, i'm just getting familiar with Steve Gunn and have amassed some of his works and would be happy to share. i have yet to listen to any of it as i'm trying to go slow on this stuff as it seems like it could reach it's saturation point with me rather quickly. but i also tend to binge. i also feel like i'm starting this ass-backwards with these younger kids paying tribute to the masters of the genre...but i'll get there one way or the other.

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:12 pm

e-stone Wrote:

so anyways, i'm just getting familiar with Steve Gunn and have amassed some of his works and would be happy to share. i have yet to listen to any of it as i'm trying to go slow on this stuff as it seems like it could reach it's saturation point with me rather quickly. but i also tend to binge. i also feel like i'm starting this ass-backwards with these younger kids paying tribute to the masters of the genre...but i'll get there one way or the other.

yeah, please share. hadn't really even heard of gunn. that is back-asswards, but there are troves of amazing music you've yet to discover. fahey kind of changed my ear before i'd even heard him. seems like you're in a similar position.

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:05 pm

Steve Gunn:

Sundowner (2008)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qf2iressdy8hao9

Boerum Palace (2009)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0kzxjf125gztxcc

Too Early For The Hammer EP (2009)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7w6b4c4ti5czlj9

Gunn-Truscinski Duo:

Sand City (2010)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ow3cx79f4xtxbfn

Ocean Parkway (2012)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?6mx69h4i0qlaqfb

Daniel Bachman:

Seven Pines (2012)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?c9drrb8duy3d7pu

Oh Be Joyful (2012)

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qwuan6qff6de2za

seafoam · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:28 pm

E-stone, ass backwards yes pretty much same trail as me[Golden Gunn] but you took it way down the road already dude. I have long had Fahey's Christmas music and that's it, but never went further or with Jack Rose and others . . . thanks for the hook ups

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:10 am

a relevant mix compiled by a best friend inspired by the very fahey box set i mention above:

http://www.djluvsrecords.com/2013/03/luv167/

zelo205 · **Joined:** Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:36 pm **Posts:** 8

He plays good, i also like him <3

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