JOHN FAHEY v2 Death Chants Breakdowns 67 LP Takoma

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JOHN FAHEY -VOLUME 2  DEATH CHANTS, BREAKDOWNS & MILITARY WALTZES - 1967 Takoma LP

What can you say about John Fahey? Bitten early by the music bug, by age 13 he was playing a Sears & Roebuck guitar & haunting junk stores for records. Student of philosophy, psychology, and of Americana's musical roots in the earliest folk & blues traditions--from the plantation slave quarters to the Victorian parlor & guitar orchestras, from barn dances to Sunday socials, from the  roadhouses to the church. A musical archeologist, historian, author (his UCLA master' s thesis on blues pioneer Charlie Patton is considered a hallmark of blues folklore), interpreter & innovator, as well as founder of  Takoma Records. The fingerpicked steel guitar became a whole new animal when Fahey wrapped his hands & mind around it. His folk traditions were by no means limited to Western roots; influences from around the globe stoked his musical forge--Brazilian, gamelan, East Indian, Indonesian, Tibetan--as well as classical & the avant garde. His early to mid-60s releases (often sold via mail order) dance from place to place, encompassing his myriad influences--a Skip James motif shifts to Bartok then on to a madrigal before morphing into an ancient reel; raga swings back to yet another blues motif--all a seemingly natural progression under Fahey's astonishingly capable  fingers.

A great example of the multi-faceted musical world of Mr. Fahey; blues, madrigals, hymns, Hawaiian, Spanish, Olde English, American--all played with breathtaking artistry by a true original!.

SIDE 1: John Henry Variations, The Downfall of the Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill, Take A Look At That Baby, Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV, America, Episcopal Hymn..

SIDE 2: Sunflower River Blues, When The Springtime Comes Again, Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border, On The Beach At Waikiki, Spanish Dance.

In the John Fahey archives, this LP is noted as released with 2 different covers in 1967. This copy is the Tom Weller cover design, which I believe was issued 1st.

TAKOMA RECORDS, C-1003,  1967

VINYL, NM+   COVER, VG+ (some minor corner wear, but unfortunately a 4" split along upper right seam, see photo) 

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