John Fahey - Popular Songs Of Christmas & New Year's (1983) {Rounder–Varrick CDVR012 rel 1994}
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© 1983, 1994 Rounder Records / Varrick Records | CD VR 012
Finger-Picked Guitar / Christmas / Contemporary Folk / Progressive Folk
The famously abrasive and eccentric John Fahey – a brilliant guitarist and composer who once recorded under the name Blind Joe Death – is not the first person one would expect to make a sweet and apparently unironic album of Christmas instrumentals. Being the bloody-minded coot that he was, he made several, all of them wonderful. Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year's is the second of them, this one recorded with the help of fellow guitarist Terry Robb.
Almost all the tunes are familiar Christmas favorites, but few are commonly associated with the solo steel-string guitar: his gorgeous arrangement of the "Skater's Waltz" would come as a surprise if his approach to it weren't so natural as to make it sound inevitable; similarly, his elegantly simple setting of "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and his slowly loping, Merle Travis-on-Quaaludes arrangement of "White Christmas" bring new insight to overly familiar material. Only on a strangely enervated take on "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" does he sound like he's having anything other than a lot of fun. His guitar is maybe a bit too closely miked and his tone a bit astringent, but this is a delightful record in almost every respect.
Personnel
John Fahey - guitar
Terry Robb - guitar
Track Listing:
01 - Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
02 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
03 - The Skater's Waltz
04 - The Christmas Song
05 - Medley; Christmas Time's A-Coming_Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
06 - Medley; The Holly And The Ivy_The Cherry Tree Carol
07 - Apple Blossom Time
08 - White Christmas
09 - Medley; Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow_Winter Wonderland
10 - Remember
11 - Christmas Time Is Here
12 - Do You Hear What I Hear~
13 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
14 - The Waltz You Saved For Me
15 - Medley; Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly_We Wish You A Merry Christmas
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John Fahey / Popular Songs Of Christmas & New Year's
Used drive : PBDS CD-ROM DH-48N1S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
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12 | 27:40.37 | 2:27.00 | 124537 | 135561
13 | 30:07.37 | 3:02.38 | 135562 | 149249
14 | 33:10.00 | 3:23.00 | 149250 | 164474
15 | 36:33.00 | 3:19.12 | 164475 | 179411
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Track 4
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Track 5
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Track 9
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Track 11
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Filename C:\EACRips\13 - I'll Be Home For Christmas.wav
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==== Log checksum 5720B90490B03D51EC751AA8BA0A81080B789FD806561D3805FAA25097C83FCE ====
EAC extraction logfile from 8. August 2018, 8:35
John Fahey / Popular Songs Of Christmas & New Year's
Used drive : PBDS CD-ROM DH-48N1S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC\win64\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 1:45.00 | 0 | 7874
2 | 1:45.00 | 2:41.37 | 7875 | 19986
3 | 4:26.37 | 3:58.38 | 19987 | 37874
4 | 8:25.00 | 2:25.00 | 37875 | 48749
5 | 10:50.00 | 4:08.00 | 48750 | 67349
6 | 14:58.00 | 2:15.00 | 67350 | 77474
7 | 17:13.00 | 1:39.00 | 77475 | 84899
8 | 18:52.00 | 1:42.00 | 84900 | 92549
9 | 20:34.00 | 3:49.00 | 92550 | 109724
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11 | 26:20.37 | 1:20.00 | 118537 | 124536
12 | 27:40.37 | 2:27.00 | 124537 | 135561
13 | 30:07.37 | 3:02.38 | 135562 | 149249
14 | 33:10.00 | 3:23.00 | 149250 | 164474
15 | 36:33.00 | 3:19.12 | 164475 | 179411
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