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John Aloysius Fahey (/ ˈ f eɪ h i / FAY-hee; February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.
Feb 23, 2001 · John Fahey, a musical prodigy and innovator of folk and avant-garde guitar, died in 2001 at age sixty-one. He founded Takoma Records, released influential albums such as Blind Joe Death and The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and collaborated with young artists like Glenn Jones.
Acoustic guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) was impossible to classify. His eclectic music included traditional-sounding folk pieces, Indian ragas, blues, and unpredictable modern works, not...
Apr 12, 2018 · Amanda Petrusich writes about the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, a festival dedicated to the music of the American-primitive guitar player John Fahey.
Feb 22, 2001 · John Fahey. One of acoustic guitar's prime innovators (and eccentrics), who mixed traditionalist forms (folk, blues, country) with a decidedly modernist sensibility. Read Full Biography.
Dec 4, 2020 · John Fahey: the guitarist who was too mysterious for the world. December 4, 2020 ~ THE HOBBLEDEHOY. He adopted pseudonyms when no one had heard of him and drifted into poverty and alcoholism. But Fahey was one of the great pioneers of American blues and folk, as a new film shows.
John Fahey Guitar discussion group & mailing list: Find a copy of. RED CROSS. Fahey's final release on.
