John FaheyBest John Fahey Albums Ranked

Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years [1958-1965]

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9.5

“This essential 5xCD, six-hour set features an 88-page book and the complete recordings the guitarist made for the Fonotone label between 1958 and 1965. It's not just for John Fahey zealots, it's for anyone interested in the story of American music.”

Old Fashioned Love

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8.4

“John Fahey was a lover, first picking up the guitar in a gas station as a means of picking up chicks. So a good way to become enamored with Fahey's catalog is to just pick any track fixated on a woman, and go from there: "Impressions of Susan", "A Raga Called Pat", "Requiem for Molly", "Beverly", "Juana", or on this particular disc, "Marilyn". Each lady is lovely, dark, ultimately unknowable. Is J”

Red Cross

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7.3

“Joey and Dee Dee, Joe Strummer... it's been a bleak stretch lately. My adolescent heroes are a vanishing breed, it seems, yet Pat Boone might as well be immortal-- where's the justice? It's a bum deal, really: you care enough about an artist's music, and somewhere down the line you end up caring about the person behind it, too. Artists give themselves up in their work, and we connect with that sma”