The tune is performed on lap slide guitar tuned to Open G or 'Spanish' tuning (DGDGBD) . IFC staff member Paul Bryant writes: This is the first thing by Fahey I ever heard, on John Peel’s “Top Gear” show on BBC Radio One, way way back in 1969. It was pretty much the strangest thing I’d ever heard. It had the effect of slowing you right down to a dead stop. You had to hear it again. JF in 1969 : “I used to live in Mount Diablo and I’d ride into school every morning, and there was a lady who raised peacocks, and she had one peacock left. JF in 1994 expanded a little: “A lady… read more
The tune is performed on lap slide guitar tuned to Open G or 'Spanish' tuning (DGDGBD) . IFC staff member Paul Bryant writes: This is the f… read more
The tune is performed on lap slide guitar tuned to Open G or 'Spanish' tuning (DGDGBD) . IFC staff member Paul Bryant writes: This is the first thing by Fahey I ever heard, on … 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