finetune artist: John Fahey

Starting his career in the late 1950s, John Fahey set the standard for instrumental acoustic guitar pieces, both in terms of composition and improvisation. Fahey's unique style, fully realized in the heady days of the late '60s, incorporated traditional folk, blues, and old-time country music into a decidedly modernist sensibility. A highly informed and irascible figure, he wrote two books about his life in music and started his own influential lable, Takoma Records. An eccentric character, Fahey spent a lot of time under the radar, but was taken up as a hero by the more experimental end of the alt-rock generation in the '90s, enjoying a revival before his death in 2001.

Listen to John Fahey at Finetune.

(2007) The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, Vol. 4
(2007) Vanguard Visionaries
(2006) The Essential
(2006) Best Of The Vanguard Years
(2006) The Yellow Princess
(2006) Requia And Other Compositions
(2006) The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death
(2006) Live In Tasmania
(2006) The Legend Of Blind Joe Death
(2006) The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
(2006) America
(2006) Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes
(2006) The Best Of John Fahey: Vol. 2 1964-1983
(2006) Revenge Of Blind Joe Death - The John Fahey Tribute Album
(2006) The Voice Of The Turtle
(2006) Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
(2006) Old Fashioned Love
(2006) The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album/Christmas With John Fahey, Vol. II
(2006) The Best Of John Fahey 1959-1977
(2006) Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide To John Fahey
(1999) Best of the Vanguard Years
(1998) Death Chants, Breakdowns And Miltary Waltzes
(1992) Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories
(1987) I Remember Blind Joe Death
(1967) Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes

Sunflower River Blues
John Henry Variations
In Christ There Is No East Or West
Spanish Dance
101 Is A Hard Road To Travel