John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965) {Takoma-Fantasy CDTAK 7015 rel 1997}
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965) {Takoma-Fantasy CDTAK 7015 rel 1997}
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© 1965, 1997 Takoma / Fantasy | CDTAK 7015
Folk / Contemporary Folk / Finger-Picked Guitar / Folk Jazz / Folk-Blues / Progressive Folk
A strange man, John Fahey, with an unusual set of guitar styles. This album, originally released on Riverboat Records and later reissued by Fahey's own Takoma label, has a lot of rough edges in terms of the recording but a tremendous amount of power when it comes to the music. Fahey was at the top of his game, alternately playful and dark, so there's never a dull moment. There is always something new to be heard on each playing.
This was John Fahey's fourth solo album and was recorded by Brian and Barry Hansen in 1965. As with its predecessors it became widely influential for other guitarists and composers including Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and Bob Brozman, all of whose work can be found in the Ace Records catalogue. These players, and others, shared John's ambitions for furthering the place of the solo steel-stringed guitar, and for some of them this album was seen as one of the very best. It was originally issued on the small Riverboat label and then re-issued on Takoma. The original issue included a lengthy booklet of Fahey's tangential and mystifying writing, amongst other things continuing the 'biography' of Blind Joe Death that had been so much a part of his earlier releases. This booklet does not form part of this package, though as we will see other notes that make up for its omission.
John Fahey had a mass of diverse influences on his music and playing style. Most obvious were the early blues guitarists like Charlie Patton (whose work formed the basis for his college thesis), Bukka White, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt, but aside from these there was a wealth of old time music, South American and European influences. He saw himself as a sponge and this album very much proves it as we can hear his bluesy slide playing on ‘How Green Was My Valley’ and ‘The Death Of A Clayton Peacock’ with the much-loved old standard ‘Bicycle Built For Two’ sandwiched in between. Unusually for someone who didn't normally play with other instrumentalists, there are two tracks here, ‘Beautiful Linda Getchell’ and ‘Come Back Baby’, where is is joined by banjo player L. Mayne Smith who co-composed the first of these with him.
One of the great joys of this re-issue for guitarists is the amount of precise detail in the notes of Fahey's playing and tunings. There are general tuning notes followed by a breakdown of exactly how each track is played that will enthuse the casual listener but enthrall the expert fan. As well as this there is an added note from Samuel Charters, the Vanguard producer to whom John sent his first album for consideration. After an ongoing period of persistence, Charters eventually realised that the man wasn't going to go away, and indeed his work was being enjoyed by growing numbers, and the two men would eventually work together on album releases for which there was a better budget for John to move to a higher level. Charters suggests that this album was both a summation of Fahey's achievements to this point and a starting point for further development. His appreciation of the playing that he had at first not understood is heartfelt, pointing to the haunting work on the dissonant ‘Orinda-Moraga’ and the impressionistic ‘On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean’, and to the fact that the album ends with ‘St Patrick's Hymn’, reflecting the fact that another path for Fahey could have been as a minister.
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965) {Takoma-Fantasy CDTAK 7015 rel 1997}
Personnel:
John Fahey – guitar
L. Mayne Smith – banjo
tracklist:
01. "Beautiful Linda Getchell" (Fahey, L. Mayne Smith) – 1:50
02. "Orinda-Moraga" – 3:55
03. "I Am the Resurrection" – 3:00
04. "On the Sunny Side of the Ocean" – 3:00
05. "Tell Her to Come Back Home" (Fahey, Uncle Dave Macon) – 2:45
06. "My Station Will Be Changed After Awhile [sic]" – 2:02
07. "101 Is a Hard Road to Travel" (Fahey, Macon) – 2:17
08. "How Green Was My Valley" – 2:15
09. "Bicycle Built for Two" – 1:10 (arrangement of the 1892 song, "Daisy Bell")
10. "The Death of the Clayton Peacock" – 2:52
11. "Brenda's Blues" – 1:45
12. "Old Southern Medley" (Fahey, Stephen Foster, Charlie Patton, Daniel Decatur Emmett) – 6:08
13. "Come Back Baby" – 2:15
14. "Poor Boy" (Fahey, Bukka White) – 2:25
15. "Saint Patrick's Hymn" (based on "Saint Patrick's Breastplate") – 0:55
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John Fahey / The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
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==== Log checksum EA995895B35E31ED62FDF9B48512DF7BA55CE62A1E2B2267725166997A3526FE ====
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965) {Takoma-Fantasy CDTAK 7015 rel 1997}
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965) {Takoma-Fantasy CDTAK 7015 rel 1997}
All thanks goes to the original releaser!
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