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John Aloysius Fahey (/ ˈ f eɪ h i / FAY-hee; February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.
Acoustic guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) was impossible to classify. His eclectic music included traditional-sounding folk pieces, Indian ragas, blues, and unpredictable modern works, not...
Feb 23, 2001 · John Fahey, a musical prodigy and innovator of folk and avant-garde guitar, died in 2001 at age sixty-one. He founded Takoma Records, released influential albums such as Blind Joe Death and The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and collaborated with young artists like Glenn Jones.
Dec 4, 2020 · John Fahey: the guitarist who was too mysterious for the world. December 4, 2020 ~ THE HOBBLEDEHOY. He adopted pseudonyms when no one had heard of him and drifted into poverty and alcoholism. But Fahey was one of the great pioneers of American blues and folk, as a new film shows.
Apr 12, 2018 · In the fifties and sixties, the guitarist John Fahey pioneered an idiosyncratic style of fingerpicking called American primitive. Photograph by GAB Archive / Redferns / Getty.
Feb 25, 2001 · John Fahey, a guitarist who carved out a private corner of Americana only to see it become a foundation of new age music, died on Thursday at Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., after undergoing ...
Jan 27, 2014 · John Fahey. This guitar master combined folk, blues, avant-garde, and ambient music into an otherworldly style, inspiring everyone from Sonic Youth to Sufjan Stevens. By Jason Heller. January...
