John FaheyBest John Fahey Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
11
Opinions
11
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated John Fahey's catalog across 11 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated John Fahey album is The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (Remastered) (1964) with a 8.6/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years [1958-1965] and The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick. The discography on Wavelength spans 1964 to 2011.
Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years [1958-1965]
“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
“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
“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”
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