This includes a lot of Lonesome Weary Blues by Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland (rereleased on Old Time Mountain Guitar on County 503, an essential album for Fahey fans), plus Vastopol by Elizabeth Cotton and countless others, and we also hear Mississippi John Hurt’s Stack o’Lee Blues in there.
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This includes a lot of Lonesome Weary Blues by Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland (rereleased on Old Time Mountain Guitar on County 503, an essential al… read more
This includes a lot of Lonesome Weary Blues by Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland (rereleased on Old Time Mountain Guitar on County 503, an essential album for Fahey fans), plus Vastopol by… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate classical, Portugue… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style ha… read more
John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been descri… read more