Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist -- Steve Lowenthal, Paperback Lee Van Cleef ISBN: 9781338814071

ISBN: 9781338814071

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This was in January of 2020

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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist -- Steve Lowenthal, Paperback Lee Van Cleef ISBN: 9781338814071John Fahey hovers ghostlike in the sound of almost every acoustic guitarist who came after him, from Leo Kottke to Jimmy Page. In essence, John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than forty albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental