JOHN FAHEY LP ROBBIE BASHO-TAKOMA-FOLK-PSYCH-DRONE-RARE

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JOHN FAHEY

Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues 1-4 LP

• Lmited Edition
• Label              :Table of the Elements 60 / Usa 2003
• Condition        :ex/ex(-) (cover/record)
• 1-sided

Limited edition picture disc on the Table Of The Elements label, recorded for the table of the elements festival back in 1996. 1-sided & etched on the other side. Mesmerizing, hypnotic guitar pieces. On the same label were released albums from Faust, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Keiji Haino, Loren Konnors, Rhys Chatham, John Cale, etc. 

John Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art. Fahey himself borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American music but also incorporated classical, Brazilian, Indian and abstract music into his eclectic œuvre. In characteristically witty fashion, he once said of his style: "How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know." In 2003, he was ranked 35th in Rolling Stone's "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Fahey developed a style that blended the picking patterns he discovered on old blues 78s with the dissonance of contemporary classical composers he loved, such as Charles Ives and Béla Bartók. Later albums from the sixties, such as Requia and The Yellow Princess found Fahey making sound collages from such elements as Gamelan music, Tibetan chanting, animal and bird cries and singing bridges. In 1967, Fahey recorded with Red Crayola at the 1967 Berkeley Folk Festival.

In addition to his own creative output, Fahey expanded the Takoma label, discovering fellow guitarists Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang, as well as emerging pianist George Winston. Kottke's debut release on the label, 6- and 12-String Guitar, ultimately proved to be the most successful of the crop, selling more than 500,000 copies. Other artists with albums on the label included Mike Bloomfield, Rick Ruskin, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Maria Muldaur, Michael Gulezian and Canned Heat.

Following a 1994 entry on Fahey in Spin magazine's spin-off Alternative Record Guide publication, Fahey learned that he now had a whole new audience, which included alternative US bands Sonic Youth and Cul de Sac, British comedian and writer Stewart Lee and the avant-garde musician Jim O'Rourke. In 1997, his label issued its first crop of releases, including albums by artists such as British guitarist Derek Bailey, American pianist Cecil Taylor, guitarist Jim O'Rourke, bluegrass pioneers the Stanley Brothers, old-time banjo legend Dock Boggs, Rick Bishop of Sun City Girls, and slide guitarist Jenks "Tex" Carman.

The John Fahey tribute album, Revenge of Blind Joe Death, was released in 2006 on the Takoma Records label and has Fahey tunes and original compositions performed by Dale Miller, George Winston, Michael Gulezian and Alex de Grassi, Charlie Schmidt, Canned Fish (Fito de la Parra and Larry Taylor from Canned Heat and Barry "The Fish" Melton from Country Joe and the Fish), David Doucet, Country Joe McDonald, Peter Lang and Terry Robb, Sean Smith, Henry Kaiser and John Schott, Nick Schillace, Stefan Grossman and Rick Ruskin, Phil Kellogg, Andrew Stranglen and Nels Cline & Elliott Sharp, Pat O'Connell, and Blind Joe Death.

Vinyl lies in excellent(-) condition, was bought as a new release and played a couple of times, those clear vinyls from the Lanthanides series weren't the best pressings if you know what i mean and thus the grade, which means some crackle at the beggining, while the plastic cover lies in excellent condition, has some small bending on corners!! ...impossible to find in any condition!!  

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