#665: Program #665

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
The legendary guitarist, composer, and founder of Takoma Records, John Fahey, visited the studio for this May 9, 1991 episode of New Sounds From the Vaults. The late Fahey regales us with tales of psychoanalysis and repressed memories, along with the story of how Takoma Records was started in a basement, and its subsequent demise. Also, why Fahey hates the word “mellow.” Plus, listen to the Looney-Tunes guitar noises, Bartok-inspired folk influences, and finger-picking signature sounds of Fahey’s playing live in the performance studio.

PROGRAM #665 With Guest John Fahey (05/09/1991)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

John Fahey

God, Time and Causality

Revelation, excerpt [1:30]

Shanachie #97006 www.shanachie.com OR at Amazon.com

John Fahey

Live

Twilight on Prince George's Ave./Medley [9:30]
Steamboat Gwine Round the Bend/Come on to my Kitchen/Worried Blues [7:00]
Banjo Street [8:00]
Untitled [5:30]

"Steamboat" appears on the Shanachie CD listed above. Banjo Street and Twilight on Prince George's Ave. are on the Varrick/Rounder CD Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories, available at Amazon.com

John Fahey

God, Time and Causality

Revelation, excerpt [1:30]

See above.

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