Today’s youngsters download all their music illegally. But this five CD archive of juvenilia by the kind of cult artist disposable income laden old men admire, packaged with a ninety page tome a foot square, just wouldn’t be the same as a stolen zip file.
John Fahey reinvented the acoustic guitar, taking blues and folk forms, forgotten back in the fifties to all but Fahey’s fanatical friends, into untold territories.
And here, in these lost bespoke sides, is a chronological record of his early journeys, Fahey from rags to ragas.
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk