Audio CD review:
John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes

John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes

Band: John Fahey Title: Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes Rating: Release Date: 02 February, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Sunflower River Blues 2: When The Springtime Comes Again 3: Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border 4: Some Summer Day 5: On The Beach At Waikiki 6: Spanish Dance 7: John Henry Variations 8: The Downfall Of The Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill 9: Take A Look At That Baby 10: Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain 11: America 12: Episcopal Hymn 13: Sunflower River Blues 14: When The Springtime Comes Again 15: Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border 16: Some Summer Day 17: On The Beach At Waikiki 18: Spanish Dance 19: John Henry Variations 20: Take A Look At That Baby 21: America 22: Episcopal Hymn

Editoral Review On both discs Fahey's finger picking is nimble and awe-inspiring, his head afire with ideas both revolutionary and musically pure. This inspired collection reissues all the music from John Fahey's genre-expansive, groundbreaking 1964 disc Death Chants and its (mostly) rerecorded version from 1967. His goal was to reconcile a love for American primitive folk traditions and 20th-century classical music; by 1967 he'd largely succeeded. Death Chants is one of the most intense, life-affirming, and visionary recordings of the 1960s, and the clear (and thankfully not digitally messed-with) sound plus context-heavy, insightful liner notes by Byron Coley make the reissue a must even for folks who own the original artifacts. --Mike McGonigal .. You can see a complete list of all John Fahey discography, or go back to the John Fahey tabs