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american primitives: remembering blind joe death
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| John Fahey | The Last Steam Engine Train | |
| John Fahey | Desperate Man Blues | |
| Sir Richard Bishop | Rose Room | |
| John Fahey | Revelation | |
| Blind Willie Johnson | John the Revelator | |
| Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Evil Is Going On (1966 Live) | |
| Bassholes | Sleepyman Blues | |
| John Fahey | Chelsey Silver, Please Come Home | |
| John Fahey | Lion | |
| John Fahey | 12/13/1977; the Great Midwestern; no track title | |
| Bukka White | Parchman Farm Blues | |
| Charlie Feathers | Frankie & Johnny | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Cecil Taylor | Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come | |
| John Fahey | Dance of Death | |
| Elder J.J. Hadley (Charley Patton) | Prayer of Death, Part I | |
| Stanley Brothers | Little Maggie | |
| John Fahey | Sligo River Blues (1964 version) | |
| Dock Boggs | Pretty Polly | |
| John Fahey | Knoxville Blues | |
| John Fahey & Cul de Sac | Gamelan Guitar | |
| John Fahey | When the Catfish is in Bloom | |
| Blind Roosevelt Graves & Brother | Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus) | |
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blind joe took his leave this past weekend, leaving the world with a body of work of which very few artists could conceive. i began this mix in my head the day i read the news and i finally got it out onto tape tonight. listening to this music...headphones...in the dark....2 AM. ethereal. rather than devote the entire mix to fahey, i included other music (all american primitives, in fahey's eyes) associated with him in some way: all non-Fahey tracks, with the one and only exception of Blind Willie Johnson, were released on Fahey's Revenant label. For my money, revenant is one of the best labels around. John the Revelator is from Harry Smith's Folk Anthology...included on this mix because Fahey contributed to the award-winning liner notes. I have no regrets about this mix, although there are other things I would love to add: any track from Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing--O'rourke's best Blind Joe imitation. Also, I was unable to include anything from the other Revenant releases (Jim O'Rourke, Derek Bailey, Jenks Carman). Sir Richard Bishop is actually Rick Bishop, of the Sun City Girls. He's here fully armed with acoustic guitar and Django-ized for your listening pleasure. The live track from 1977 is soundboard from the Great Midwestern...and it is astonishing. A couple more things (i know i'm rambling....): listen to Dock Boggs in a darkened room with the headphones turned up and the glint of a candle on his visage. I'm not sure about anyone else, but there's something sinister in his voice....Pretty Polly made every hair on my body stand on end. Finally, I knew what the last song on this tape was going to be the moment i read of blind joe's death. that song cooks like no other....it's one of the hottest tracks i've ever put my ears on. most of this mix is downcast, as fahey can take you through every emotion possible with his playing....i wanted to end this on a high note. an uplifting spiritual/a tribute/a dedication to an american primitive.
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Excellent! GOD BLESS JOHN FAHEY!!
ooooh. Where can I download the White Paper on this?? Nice mix, great descriptive. We need to arm you with art uploading capabilities...~:-p
I am currently at work on Rock Snob Encyclopedia Ff. Since I didn't choose Fahey this my friend gets honorary inclusion. Well crafted and may I say you can write the Rock Snob obituaries appendix.
My Fahey collecting stopped with The Yellow Princess, but I've still got all my Fahey vinyl on the Takoma label -- and the compilation I made from those LPs. My partner in the record biz, back in the day, was one of the East Coast Blues Mafia who, along with John, Tom Hoskins (discoverer of Mississippi John Hurt), Nick Perls (of Yazoo Records) and others, combed the SouthEast US for 78s of country blues artists ... reading about John's death definitely brought me up short the other morning, and sent emails flying amongst the "survivors". Glad to see his work represented on AOTM.
Wow. I've never seen this. I honestly (I swear) have been planning on doing a Fahey mix for months but have yet to get it all to coalesce... very, very well done, and I miss the man already.
I RECORDED THE FAHEY SHOW AT THE GREAT MIDWESTERN MUSIC HALL ON 12/13/77...I WAS IN THE HOUSE BAND AT THE TIME AND HAD ACCESS TO THE NAKAMIHI THAT WAS ALWAYS HOOKED TO THE SOUNDBOARD...JOHN WAS PRETTY MUCH PLASTERED THE ENTIRE EVENING AND AS WAS HIS WAY WANDERED IN & OUT OF SONGS WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS, COMBINING MELODIES AND ABRUPTLY CHANGING DIRECTION MID-SONG IT WS A BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE, AND I STILL HAVE THE FIRST GENERATION MASTER CASSETTE, FROM WHICH I PUT THE FIRST DISC TRANSFER INTO CIRCULATION ONLY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO...CURIOUS TO SEE HOW FAR IT HAD SPREAD I PUT THE SPECIFICS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE AND ENDED UP HERE...IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE
I saw John a few weeks before he passed on while I was shopping at Payless. My frie.nd had interviewed him for a magazine recently, otherwise I would not have recognized him. I just let him shop, but I knew he was a lege.nd.