John Fahey - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions (1966) {Takoma TAKCD-6508-2 rel 2000}
John Fahey - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions (1966) {Takoma TAKCD-6508-2 rel 2000}
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© 1966, 2000 Takoma Records / Fantasy | TAKCD-6508-2
Folk / Blues / Contemporary Folk / Finger-Picked Guitar / Folk Jazz / Folk-Blues / Progressive Folk
Few guitarists, even ones leaning toward the eccentric, would dream of pasting together a 19-minute instrumental out of various improvisations. But John Fahey is on his own planet, and he assured that fingerstyle guitar would never be the same when he issued The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party on his own Takoma label in 1966. The album features Fahey's more experimental explorations on the guitar between 1962 and 1966, ranging from solo guitar on "Guitar Excursions Into the Unknown" to the eerie organ accompaniment on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."
The intriguing "900 Miles" finds Fahey's guitar intermingling with Nancy McLean's flute, creating a surreal, mysterious mood. "Knott's Berry Farm Molly" begins by rolling along like a traditional folk instrumental only to switch abruptly to a backward-tracked guitar. Mysterious Al Wilson adds the sitar-like sounds of the veena to several tracks, including "Sail Away Ladies," meshing his eastern touch into the fabric of Fahey's open tunings. Despite the multiple approaches, this album is surprisingly cohesive. Perhaps it is the experimental air of every selection, or just the unifying element of Fahey himself. The album ends, as many of Fahey's albums of this period did, with a religious instrumental, "Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel." The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party is a fascinating experiment that finds the artist taking some real chances and succeeding.
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Personnel:
John Fahey - guitar
Mysterious Al Wilson - veena (#6)
Flea - organ (#3 only)
Nancy McClean - flute (on #5 only)
Tracks
01 - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party
02 - Knott's Berry Farm Molly
03 - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
04 - Guitar Excursions into the Unknown
05 - 900 Miles
06 - Sail Away Ladies
07 - Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel
Notes
1, 2, 4, 7 recorded at Sierra Sound Labs, Berkeley, 1963 to 1966
3, 5 recorded in Washington, D.C., 1962
6 recorded in Cambridge, MA, 1965
Remastered at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, 2000.
Originally released in 1966 as Takoma C 1008.
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John Fahey / The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions
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John Fahey / The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions
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John Fahey - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions (1966) {Takoma TAKCD-6508-2 rel 2000}
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