Just as folk music was exploding on the counter-culture scene in the 1960s, John Fahey started playing solo, steel-string acoustic guitar. But he was no folk musician. “He hated the folk audiences,” ...

Acoustic guitarist John Fahey was impossible to classify. His eclectic music included traditional-sounding folk pieces, Indian ragas, blues, and unpredictable modern works, not fitting securely into ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

John Fahey has created a unique body of guitar compositions and arrangements as well as a distinct approach to fingerstyle guitar He broke fresh ground in recording guitar music that drew from such ...

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The author, with his Fahey collection. Krist Novoselic is a regular contributor to Reveb and writes a column about music and politics for the Daily Weekly.It was in 1985 when I first heard the guitar ...

John Fahey was an acoustic guitar master, a musician’s musician, and a player who transcended blues and folk styles to create his own “American Primitive” instrumental mastery. However, Fahey also was ...

From faithful solo sets to Television-indebted deconstructions, 2013 has been a renaissance to the fingerstyle guitar. And more so than any year,... America, The Primitive: 5 New Guitar Records That ...

John Fahey’s death from medical complications earlier this year was a shock to many of his loyal listeners, but in the context of the commercial music world his passing went largely unnoticed. A prime ...

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