The Dance Of Death And Other Plantation Favourites: A variant of the same song by Bukka White as recorded for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s. JF in 1982: “It’s a very popular song because Leo Kottke recorded it. Now the way the song originated was in the following fashion. Bukka White, the blues singer, he played it in a different tuning, he played it in the open G tuning, but he didn’t play the melody. So I got hold of a recording of him singing it and changed it to a D tuning where I can play the melody on the top string. Bukka sang the melody. I also wrote the bridge.… read more
The Dance Of Death And Other Plantation Favourites: A variant of the same song by Bukka White as recorded for the Library of Congress in the late 193… read more
The Dance Of Death And Other Plantation Favourites: A variant of the same song by Bukka White as recorded for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s. JF in 1982: “It’s a very popular… 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