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At 2;44. That is tapping!

BEAUTIFUL

who else here in 2024 after listening to this 14 years ago on lots of mushrooms and accounting for maybe 10% of the views since then?

How did i first listen to Holst? Fahey mentioning him at the end of this performance

i remember Trying to think just what instrument this guy was playing. I was very Stoned

I lived in his childhood home after he was gone from there.

I spent last winter in a on off relationship, always high, listening to this. this melody will always remind me of those months.

Robert Plant could wail to this.

What an inspiration. Thanks for the upload. That Bacon and Day is real nice hey!

the guitar is like screwed to his ribs... so much notes, so little movement... is hypnotic

Cosmic

Brings me back to 2020 lockdown days. spent the entire time learning this song.

Now I know where Eric Johnson got the idea for Steve’s Boogie.

All some💪💪

This is so beautiful!

Originator of old American guitar music

JF is fast becoming one of my favorite acoustic artist...a lot of his "voodoo" (to quote another comment) is derived from the various alternative tunings...it's interesting and inspiring...I'm having a good time with it...JF has become my muse.

what tuning is this in?

I'd read he was inspired by hearing Mancini's 'Days of Wine & Rose's' on the radio. Another beautiful song. (I don't hear the connection myself.)

This song is the very definition of a western cowboy stick-up robbery; as you are running out into the blazing New Mexico heat with your trusty steed. As you ride closer to the falling sunset with the revenue men chasing closely behind you.

His guitar is perfectly out of tune.

I saw him later in life at a concert at the U of Washington. He played and played and never said a word. Mesmorizing.

Will be a classic forever

I'm afraid I am terribly obsessed with this sound and style. I find it so refreshing and so darn musical. I love it, dearly. I discovered this incredible guitarist by accident. I had a compilation by various artists covering his John's music. But I never bothered to listen to it. I kick myself in the teeth for not knowing of John's music earlier. Absolutely wonderful, bizarre and uniquely American.

very likely some variation on Wine and Roses, off The Dance of Death

" I stole that last quote from Holst" I knew I liked him. I've never heard of John Fahey until this evening watching the documentary MEMPHIS '69 : The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival. The song he played there had such a nice melody. Now he's gone and mentioned my favourite classical composer :)

Who`s the woman? Looks like he got her horny lol

He seemed to know something about the guitar and its capabilities, most others never got the essence of. The most idiomatic player I’ve ever come across.

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I love this crooner

no guitar more dramatic, deep and devastating than this one.

Sounds shit, out of tune

Brilliant playing. It's a shame the guitar is out of tune.

When my mind starts to Ramblin like a wild geese from the west . I think of fahey and honey.

I'd give my whole left hand just to borrow his right thumb....

1'23 - the weirdest sound i heard a guitar playing. Fantastic!

I knew a man who looked like this, but he did not play like this

Are this and "wine and roses" are the same song?

This was one of his "longer" poems.

The legend!

it shows the level of musicianship here as he says he stole the last bit from Holst The Planets. Imagine asking any of the top 40 musicians of today what/who Holst and the Planets album is ?

Anyone know the tuning?

I remember I went to see John in a small cafe in LA in 1969. First time I heard bottlenecking Those were the days!

I’m going to try to describe the phenomena of listening to Fahey, that I’ve personally experienced, without sounding cliche. It gets better every time. These songs in which I firstly listen to under the guise and prejudice of all previous guitarists I’ve heard, and which to say this man simply brings out the twang of my soul in a way others don’t. Something about it brings you away the further away from it you listen. Listen critically and you’ll miss the enjoyment… cheers to all

This song screams American Indian to me

leo kottke

He was a treasure!

what tuning is he in?

0:25 that sounds so SICK!! Wish he had made a song from that rhythm!

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