Folks, I owe a huge Thank You to Andrew Stranglen for taking the time to scan this entire book for me so I could share it with all of you. Click here to visit Andrew's page at CDBaby..
You should thank him too!
The entire book, cover to cover in PDF format.
So warm up your fingers, flex that thumb. Calluses? Check!
Play it brother!
Table of Contents
Sunflower River Blues
The Last Steam Engine Train
Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home
When the Spring Time Comes Again
Some Summer Day
Spanish Dance
Take a Look at That Baby
I'm Going to Do All I Can For My Lord
In Christ There is no East or West
Give Me Cornbread When I'm Hungry
Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain
Revolt of the Dyke Brigade
On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
Spanish Two Step
Get it Here: HERE
Now a single PDF thanks to Bert Vanden Berghe
I remember when I opened for John at the Soft Rock Cafe in Vancouver oh so many years ago...it was around the time his music book was released...and a number of feminists in the area were picketing the venue and handing out leaflets accusing Fahey of being an anti-feminist due to some of his comments in the book. The picketers didn't stop people from attending Johns show or disrupt the evening, they were just trying to get their point across...which was...Cheers! Blind Brand X.
ReplyDeleteSunny Side of the Ocean, here I come!
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy the memories you share with us BBX! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOne of my heroes
ReplyDeletevery cool, but also kind of unsettling how different these turn out to be from my by-ear arrangements. 6string
ReplyDeleteIT's the real deal folks!
ReplyDeleteThe next best thing to the paper version,
completely unabridged and before the
Days Of Political Correctitude.
Get it while you can! -Andrew S.
Hehe, also includes all your crib notes at no extra charge!
ReplyDeleteHere's a little bit of love.
ReplyDeleteThere's great tasks.
There's amazing people who get them done.
I'm gratefully thankful. More than my english can show.
Love!
Ah yes, here is some more well deserved love!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to Andrew Stranglen and to this great blog. And now, off to learn to play some of these great tunes! :-)
Just leaving a comment shows you care! Thanks people!
ReplyDeleteHiowdy! Just wanted to share with you a joke I played on a former girlfriend oh so many years ago...she was going to southern California to visit family...I asked her if she would go to the Takoma Records office and buy me a copy of the John Fahey Spiritual Guitar Advisor...she actually went to the Takoma office and asked for a copy of the alleged publication...but was told it did not exist...she did return though with a copy of the Fahey book that I knew fully well existed...she didn't see the humor in my ruse at first...but later forgave me for pulling one over on her...! Cheers! Blind Brand X.
ReplyDeletethanks a bunch. now i have to learn how to read tabs. but thats all goose!!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Thanks for the effort, it's much appreciated.
ReplyDeletenice share and historically important!@
ReplyDeleteThank you for your time to share this with us.
ReplyDeletei am 24 years old dude from mexico and i love fahey since 4 years ago. He is my musica hero and his music make want to learn play guitar into his style. I feel a special conection with fahey music everytime i listen to it cheers and greetings pals!
ReplyDeletewelcome!
DeleteTo get inside John Fahey's head and read his thoughts and the thoughts of other's close to him about their relationships with him read "Conversations With and About John Fahey. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/952357
ReplyDeleteLoved John Fahey since I first heard him on the radio in the mid-80s. Trying to find out anything more about him, however, was another matter. Found a few vinyl albums on eBay and have acquired more on CD since then. Missed the chance to see him live when he played Manchester University just before he died - they wouldn't let me in because I wasn't a student. One of the great regrets of my life...
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