No singular guitarist can emote like Fahey does
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No singular guitarist can emote like Fahey does
I like Silvio Rodriguez
If "playing the same song with little variation" is "emotion" for you, you haven't heard much emotional music.
After hearing a few Fahey tracks, you've heard them all. Bootlegs and TV specials often mix his track titles up because several songs are nearly the exact same. He didn't know music theory and it shows.
He didn't know music theory
Toti Soler has entered the chat:
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Mississippi John hurt and blind Blake were both better. Fahey is one of those artists who steals ideas from many great artists then distills it down. Also the album you posted it one of his worst, I don’t care what scaruffi says.
Appreciate the mention but Toti and Manolo are better:
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Wow, I'm a fan of the show
Fun fact, Scaruffi's favourite used to be America. I agree in Voyagers not being his best, mainly because it doesn't represent completely what Fahey's music was all about, it's a really concrete record in his catalogue. Now, saying it's one of his worst albums seems to be pure contrarianism, A1 and B tracks are easily among his best, and it might be his better produced album ever. My favourites are Requia and Womblife anyway.
Fahey himself would disagree. He worshipped Cherley Patton as a God, I just read the book Fahry wrote about Patton
amazingly retarded
The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick > Requia > America > Blind Joe Death > Fare Forward Voyagers > Days Have Gone By > Dance Of Death > Death Chants > Womblife > On Air > God, Time and Causality > The Mill Pond > Red Cross > Live in Tasmania > Old Fashioned Love > Railroad > The Voice of the Turtle > The Yellow Princess > Hitomi > City of Refuge > Visits Washington, D.C. > After the Ball > everything else
Amazing ranking. I'd put City of Refuge higher tho, also you forgot about pic rel which is also one of my favourites.
American Primitive Guitarists
John Fahey > Sandy Bull > Robbie Băsho > Leo Kottke > Peter Lang > Jack Rose > Hayden Pedigo > Glenn Jones
those are all i know, i don't think Jim O'Rourke counts since he only made one American Primitivism album.
"Primitive guitar" is just folk/country/blues with the roots, context and soul sucked out and a bullshit pseudo-academic hipster sheen grafted over it. Fake non-genre.
No singular guitarist can emote like Fahey does
except every single blues guitarist that came before him
did fahey fuck your mom anon? I've seen you repeat this same bullshit in nearly every fahey thread
classical guitars are faggy and sound awful
Dance of death is pure chills. I dont care what you faggots say. Comparing him to real blues guitarists doesnt make sense, hes pretty far removed from them even if they influenced him
What's pseudo-academic about it? Fahey's dissertation on Patton seemed pretty well researched to me
you bros have no idea how happy i am this thread is still up since i posted it last night, i'm in my autist music listening hour and it pleases me to see this thread didn't just die instantly
glad to see i know most of these names, will be giving a listen later
blake yes, john hurt definitely not. he was good but most of his songs are not that hard to play. just a few chords usually in the key of C with consistent picking
he played american primitivism, why would he need the retarded 19th century european music theory? lmao
show me a blind blake song that sounds like John Fahey, or at least emotes in a very subtle unique dissonant way, i'm very open minded
Basho and Bull are both better than Fahey
paco is not a classical guitarist lol
why has everything gotta be autistically ranked. fahey could never make basho's material, basho could never made fahey's material
I remember reading an old fahey interview once where he said basho was a crappy guitar player lol
He said classical guitars, which is also not the case anyway.
musicians that layer their songs with more music beyond their singular guitar can't really be compared to fahey, its a different sound altogether and blues guys almost never chained together melodic ideas like primitivist artists
This is why you need Toti in your lifes:
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thoughts on Bert Jansch? i know he's not exactly the same genre, i know his main influences were Davey Graham & Archie Fisher, but i believe Fahey had a pretty big influence on him as well.
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wankery with very little soul, probably plays faster than fahey but doesn't really matter
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show me a song where he plays some emotion
For me this is his best album. This little tune has a lot of emotion on it: youtu.be
i found a vinyl digitization of the original 1959 Blind Joe Death album and holy shit it sounds so much better than this CD version.
makes Angie more complex to play
OK, show me a blues song similar to voice of the Turtle or when the springtime comes
I don't care what anyone says this is a good album from jim
I'd rather listen to Jansch than Fahey, but the former often sings, as well. I'm not a fan of all of his songs, but overall I'd rather have it playing in the background.
Similar to those songs or equally emotive? We're talking about emotion here, and Voice of the Turtle and When The Springtime Comes Again are some of Fahey's more mechanical pieces.
I like him but most of the english bluesmen took more from people like Elizabeth Cotten and John Hurt than from Fahey; I don't think his influence was broad enough at that point. Though John Peel played Fahey often, so who knows. I tend to prefer some of Bert's colleagues over him (Martin Carthey, Davey, Nic Jones), but he has some good stuff.