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America is an album by American folk musician John Fahey, released in 1971. Originally intended to be a double album , it was released as a single LP . The unreleased material was subsequently restored in later CD and vinyl reissues.
The discography of the American guitarist and composer John Fahey consists of thirty-six studio albums, five live albums and sixteen compilation albums, as well as five tribute albums. A number of semi-official releases are excluded here, as are bootlegs and material from unreleased recording sessions which circulate among fans and collectors.
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.
The second volume of The Best of John Fahey was assembled by American guitarist and composer Henry Kaiser.The album included three unreleased tracks from 1991; “Twilight on Prince George’s Avenue,” “Sligo Mud”, and “Tuff” which were assumed to be from an album Fahey recorded for Shanachie Records titled Azalea City Memories that was never released. [1]
Joseph John Fahey (July 30, 1901 – June 29, 1980) was an American geologist and geochemist. He joined the U.S. Geological Survey in 1927, where he worked until his retirement in 1971. [ 1 ] During his career, he named seventeen minerals, [ 2 ] including bradleyite , edgarbaileyite , loughlinite , [ 3 ] mansfieldite , [ 4 ] and wherryite .
Takoma Records began with a custom pressing of 100 copies of John Fahey/Blind Joe Death, an album of Fahey's fingerstyle guitar playing released around 1959. [2] Fahey had no distribution and sold the pressing to friends and at music parties. A copy of this record sold on eBay for several thousand dollars. [citation needed]
When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public ...
Proofs & Refutations is a compilation album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2023. It reissues Double 78 alongside four additional tracks. History