Music CD - John Fahey: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

	Music CD: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death Artist: John Fahey List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.71 Your Save: $ 5.27 ( 35% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Takoma
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Tracks: 1. Beautiful Linda Getchell 2. Orinda-Moraga 3. I Am the Resurrection 4. On the Sunny Side of the Ocean 5. Tell Her to Come Back Home - John Fahey, Macon, Uncle Dave 6. My Station Will Be Changed After Awhile 7. 101 Is a Hard Road to Travel - John Fahey, Macon, Dave 8. How Green Was My Valley 9. Bicycle Built for Two - John Fahey, Traditional 10. The Death of the Clayton Peacock 11. Brenda's Blues 12. Old Southern Medley - John Fahey, Foster 13. Come Back Baby - John Fahey, Country Paul 14. Poor Boy - John Fahey, White, Bukka 15. Saint Patrick's Hymn
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218650427 Label: Takoma Manufacturer: Takoma Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Takoma Release Date: 1997-06-24 Studio: Takoma
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome! Comment: I love this music! It goes into my favorites stack. Also, the eight page sheet of notes inside the case has info about the various guitar tunings used. Customer Rating: Summary: One of Fahey's best Comment: This album is great and should be a must for those who like more traditional Fahey. i myself love all of his stuff, yes even Womblife and City of Refuge. "On the sunny Side of the Ocean" might be my favorite Fahey composition ever and the album is worth buying for that alone. IF YOU LIKE OR PLAY THE ACCOUSTIC GUITAR YOU MUST OWN THIS ALBUM! Customer Rating: Summary: One of the best Acoustic Guitar cds I have ever heard Comment: I put off buying a John Fahey cd for a long time, and choose this one because of the title. This is a different John Fahey than the one I saw in concert at a record store in Austin in 1999 or 2000. When I saw him, he played electric guitar in a very minimalistic style. He did no fingerpicking or old time music at all. I find this cd very restful and it gives me a feeling like finding an old photo album from 100 years ago at a country thrift store and looking at the yellowed and faded photos of men with strange facial hair and women in corsets. Although I mostly prefer electric guitar music, I play this cd a lot. I think people who like John Fahey would also like Tony McManus, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg (saw an incredible concert by him in San Francisco a few years back), Rooster Kiev (blues meets mid-eastern dance music)and let's not forget Doc Watson! Customer Rating: Summary: For Guitarists and Acoustic Lovers Alike Comment: I've played guitar for 30+ years, and I was exposed to John Fahey very early on. His "Blind Joe Death" album (along with Ry Cooder's early albums) changed the way I looked at technique and tone. They made we want to find similarly obscure (if not weird) tunes and bring a personal touch to them. If you're not a guitarist, you're still going to love this very excellent album (though I'm not a big fan of Track 1). Fahey equally rewards both the casual and the careful listener. If you play guitar or are into music theory, the outstanding liner notes include guitar tunings for each track. Some of these tunings are unique to Fahey. Unlike Kottke, for example, most of Fahey's tunes aren't difficult to play -- if you're going to try, having the right tunings will help immensely. Fahey is not flashy or fast -- he's about atmosphere and creative touches that most guitarists wouldn't think of. I probably prefer "Blind Joe Death" to this CD, but not by much. This is elegant, creative, and unusual guitar music. Customer Rating: Summary: Great acoustic guitar Comment: Without realising the spine of my albumn had disintegrated, the ancient disc slipped through my thumbs to the floor. The faintest thwack, but, alas, two tiny fragments remained on the floor, ruining the perfection of a thirty year plus piece of Fahey. And damn it, it was my favourite Fahey! Not that I have the exhaustive repository of a true fan or the professional guitar knowledge. And not that I find anything but willful obsfucation in his need for masking as Blind Joe and the feigned erudition of liner notes that go nowhere. But if the jokes helped him stabilize sufficiently to make these delicate and eloquent compositions, then bless him. I also have some things with a dixie-sounding ensemble on 'River & Religion' and 'Old Fashioned Love' with its incomparable and transporting version of,'A Persian Market'. And the surprisingly sprightly'Christmas Albumn'. But this one is very atmospheric stuff and a rich complement to those two early, rurally inspired and similarily resilient Band albums. Looks like I'll have to upgrade to CD. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 1959's self-released Blind Joe Death had an enigmatic spare cover that read "Blind Joe Death" on one side and "John Fahey" on the other. The playful 20-year-old "American primitive" guitarist had created an alternate identity: that of the obscure, unknown guitar great Blind Joe Death. The album's material was influenced by the down and dirty country blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, and Charley Patton, all manner of old-timey vernacular sound, and 20th-century classical music. This haunting release only contains one of the original recordings; the rest are far more nimble-fingered versions from 1964 (and from '67). As expertly compiled on this disc, Transfiguration presents an opportunity to crawl inside the head of a master musician just as the world of sound unfolds before him. By the time the listener hears the sparkling '67 cuts, a magical, syncretic transformation has occurred. The idiosyncratic artist revisits these plaintive, resonant songs yet again in 1988 on the moody I Remember Blind Joe Death. --Mike McGonigal