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Fahey in studio with Recording King guitar, c. 1970 While Fahey lived in Berkeley, Takoma Records was reborn through a collaboration with Maryland friend ED Denson.Fahey decided to track down blues legend Bukka White by sending a postcard to Aberdeen, Mississippi; White had sung that Aberdeen was his hometown, and Mississippi John Hurt had been rediscovered using a similar method.
American primitive guitar is a fingerstyle guitar music genre, developed by the American guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s. While the term "American primitivism" has been used as a name for the genre, [ 1 ] American primitive guitar is distinct from the primitivism art movement.
Teach Yourself Folk Guitar (Saga, 1963) (LP and instructional booklet) John Pearse, (Xtra, 1965) Folk 66 (ARC, 1966) – with Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart; Hold down a Chord: Folk Guitar for Beginners (BBC Records, 1967) Guitar Train (Metronome, 1968) (German re-release of John Pearse from 1965) Blues, Rags & Raga (DaCamera, 1972)
Due to a shift in the guitar market from acoustic instruments to electric instruments, the Favilla company ceased production in 1973. However Herk and his son Tom continued building custom instruments until their retirements, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. [1] They were often associated with the folk music revival of the 1960s.
[2] [3] Having owned a John Bailey acoustic for a few months (his first personally owned guitar since 1960), Bert had recently acquired an experimental Bailey electric, for use with the band (Pentangle), and a twelve-string acoustic. [4] [5] That particular twelve string guitar is now owned by Soren Venema, owner of Palm Guitars in Amsterdam.
Born in Brooklyn, United States, [1] Grossman described his upbringing in Queens, New York, as "lower middle-class", and his parents as "very leftist", valuing education and the arts. He began playing acoustic guitar at the age of nine, when his father bought him an archtop-style acoustic guitar made by Harmony.