Audio CD review:
John Fahey - Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites

John Fahey - Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites

Band: John Fahey Title: Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites Rating: Release Date: 20 July, 1999 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Wine and Roses 2: How Long 3: On the Banks of the Owchita 4: Worried Blues 5: What the Sun Said 6: Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent 7: Poor Boy 8: Variations on the Coocoo 9: The Last Steam Engine Train 10: Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry 11: Dance of Death 12: Tulip (aka When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose) - Bonus Track 13: Daisy (aka A Bicycle Built For Two) - Bonus Track 14: The Seige of Sevastopol - Bonus Track 15: Steel Guitar Rag - Bonus Track

Customer Reviews Essential! He stands head-to-head with such great intrumental "pickers" as Manitas de Plata and Ravi Shankar. Fahey was a modern Orpheus. All guitar players young and old (especially young) should ingest Fahey NOW. All guitar lovers (and indeed all music lovers) should sit back, relax, and let his music transport them into transcendental states. I do. . A great listen! I bought all of Fahey's albums in the 60's after hearing this one at a friends. Being sans record player and all my LPs in storage I thought it was about time to start replacing some of my favorites with CDs. I was zapped! I think that's the way it is with Fahey. You have ten or none. In my opinion his early work was his best. John is at his somber best here! I don't have a favorite Fahey album but this one ranks high for sure! You can't go wrong with any of those 60's "color" albums. This one is,"You know, the orange one"! Great!. Great Compositions Or its Mexico in the late 1800s. I am transported by this music, maybe a dusty road in the country, or a dark wood, or a lazy afternoon by the river with a long reed in between my teeth, lightly splashing my feet in the river, watching a turtle or something. . Or. . . Its really an amazing album with a slew of wonderful compositions. My favorite Fahey album, though America and Blind Joe Death are close. The best song is perhaps Wine and Roses. I would describe these records for the uninitiated as fine finger-picking steel string compositions, no singing (thank goodness), similar to some Kottke but less flashy and more contemplative. Folksy and bluesy but more than that. Melodic, rhtyhmic, very accessible but not predictable, not sugary sweet, sophisticated construction. A rambling feel generally. All kinds of different images and colors being suggested. Just a great composer! Anyway if you are only going to buy one Fahey album I recommend this one. . You can see a complete list of all John Fahey discography, or go back to the John Fahey tabs