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. The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
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by: John Fahey
Release Date May 27, 1997
For the benefit of the unitiated, John Fahey recorded most of this either in the field or on his immediate return to civilisation in 1959-60!
Most of it was based on tunes he'd heard in his youth and the same sort of music he heard in America's deep South. Some traditional tunes are here, though the majority is his own work.
Steel, acoustic and 12-string guitars join banjo in the instruments John Fahey uses here. Everything sounds the same-and that's a good thing for once.
Why? Simply because everything sounds as good as the rest of it. Top quality playing throughout and an amazing variety of land, sound and folk scapes are drifted past you.
I first chanced on it with that green Transatlantic ... Read More:
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