The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

The Legend of Blind Joe Death	Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes This inspired collection reissues all the music from John Fahey's genre-expansive, groundbreaking 1964 disc Death Chants and its (mostly) rerecorded version from 1967. On both discs Fahey's finger picking is nimble and awe-inspiring, his head afire with ideas both revolutionary a...	Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites	Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6 When John Fahey recorded this album in 1967, he was at the peak of his considerable powers as a musician, writer, and composer. His fingerpicking is astounding; surely no stronger thumb ever struck a bass string than the one that drove "Night Train to Valhalla," no surer finge...	The Voice of the Turtle
America Though America was released in 1971 as a single LP, finger-style guitarist John Fahey conceived it as a double album. This CD finally allows Fahey's full vision to be heard (an additional nine tracks are included here for the first time). It's a true treat for Fahey lovers. The t...	6 and 12 String Guitar For decades, Leo Kottke would inspire generations of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists (and help pave the way for New Age and contemporary instrumental music), but this 1969 album is the one that started it all. Kottke's brilliant debut was released, fittingly, on John Fahey's Ta...	Vol. 4: The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party	The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album John Fahey has made a habit of recording a new album of Christmas music every five or six years, but The New Possibility, which was originally released in 1968, is still his best. On it, Fahey has pulled off the near miraculous feat of taking old holiday chestnuts like "Joy to th...	John Fahey/Peter Lang/Leo Kottke

Awesome!
I love this music! It goes into my favorites stack. Also, the eight page sheet of notes inside the case has info about the various guitar tunings used.

One of Fahey's best
This album is great and should be a must for those who like more traditional Fahey. i myself love all of his stuff, yes even Womblife and City of Refuge. "On the sunny Side of the Ocean" might be my favorite Fahey composition ever and the album is worth buying for that alone. IF YOU LIKE OR PLAY THE ACCOUSTIC GUITAR YOU MUST OWN THIS ALBUM!

One of the best Acoustic Guitar cds I have ever heard
I put off buying a John Fahey cd for a long time, and choose this one because of the title. This is a different John Fahey than the one I saw in concert at a record store in Austin in 1999 or 2000. When I saw him, he played electric guitar in a very minimalistic style. He did no fingerpicking or old time music at all. I find this cd very restful and it gives me a feeling like finding an old photo album from 100 years ago at a country thrift store and looking at the yellowed and faded photos of men with strange facial hair and women in corsets. Although I mostly prefer electric guitar music, I play this cd a lot. I think people who like John Fahey would also like Tony McManus, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg (saw an incredible concert by him in San Francisco a few years back), Rooster Kiev (blues meets mid-eastern dance music)and let's not forget Doc Watson!

For Guitarists and Acoustic Lovers Alike
I've played guitar for 30+ years, and I was exposed to John Fahey very early on. His "Blind Joe Death" album (along with Ry Cooder's early albums) changed the way I looked at technique and tone. They made we want to find similarly obscure (if not weird) tunes and bring a personal touch to them. If you're not a guitarist, you're still going to love this very excellent album (though I'm not a big fan of Track 1). Fahey equally rewards both the casual and the careful listener. If you play guitar or are into music theory, the outstanding liner notes include guitar tunings for each track. Some of these tunings are unique to Fahey. Unlike Kottke, for example, most of Fahey's tunes aren't difficult to play -- if you're going to try, having the right tunings will help immensely. Fahey is not flashy or fast -- he's about atmosphere and creative touches that most guitarists wouldn't think of. I probably prefer "Blind Joe Death" to this CD, but not by much. This is elegant, creative, and unusual guitar music.

Great acoustic guitar
Without realising the spine of my albumn had disintegrated, the ancient disc slipped through my thumbs to the floor. The faintest thwack, but, alas, two tiny fragments remained on the floor, ruining the perfection of a thirty year plus piece of Fahey. And damn it, it was my favourite Fahey! Not that I have the exhaustive repository of a true fan or the professional guitar knowledge. And not that I find anything but willful obsfucation in his need for masking as Blind Joe and the feigned erudition of liner notes that go nowhere. But if the jokes helped him stabilize sufficiently to make these delicate and eloquent compositions, then bless him. I also have some things with a dixie-sounding ensemble on 'River & Religion' and 'Old Fashioned Love' with its incomparable and transporting version of,'A Persian Market'. And the surprisingly sprightly'Christmas Albumn'. But this one is very atmospheric stuff and a rich complement to those two early, rurally inspired and similarily resilient Band albums. Looks like I'll have to upgrade to CD.