The Legend Of Blind Joe Death
This cd has two versions of the blind joe death album.
The legend of blind joe death. Excerpts from glenn jones notes for the reissue. While satirising purists via surreal yarns fahey s fanciful fabrications stoked the death legend. A previously unreleased 1964 recording of west coast blues is also included.
An earlier version and the more polished version that was on the lp that in purchased in the early 1970s. Love him or hate him fahey was a pioneer of the solo guitar and this album was his initial offering. Fahey originally recorded blind joe death in 1959 in an extremely rare self released edition of less than 100 copies.
View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1996 cd release of the legend of blind joe death on discogs. Though few heard it his debut album was a groundbreaker on the acoustic folk scene in its unusually experimental approach to. The legend of blind joe death is a english album released on jun 2006.
Love him or hate him fahey was a pioneer of the solo guitar and this album was his initial offering. The 1996 fantasy takoma cd release the legend of blind joe death contains the 1964 and 1967 versions of the album with the exception of the later edited 1964 recording of the transcendental waterfall as mentioned above. The saga of john fahey is a documentary film about the legendary american guitarist composer and provocateur john fahey 1939 2001.
Directed by james cullingham. The saga of blind joe death is an extremely confusing one for those listeners who haven t been following fahey s career from the beginning. Check out the legend of blind joe death by john fahey on amazon music.
Of the record itself one side was credited to john fahey the other to an obscure bluesman that fahey had discovered named blind joe death or at least that was the album s intended conceit. The legend of blind joe death. The legend of blind joe death includes the 1964 version only which after all was the right decision as there was no space on the single cd for the other versions and the 1967 version is far easier to find.
This cinematic exploration features pete townshend chris funk of the decemberists and joey burns of calexico. An earlier version and the more polished version that was on the lp that in purchased in the early 1970s. On blind joe death 1.
In 1964 blind joe death was reissued with some tracks re recorded and the first appearance of fahey s infamous liner notes in booklet form. Fahey is often considered the godfather of american primitive guitar. In search of blind joe death.
