Chuck Johnson on Tour

 Ok you lucky bastards in the following towns...go listen to some music!!

July 5 – Milwaukee, WI @ Acme Records (with Jon Mueller)
July 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club (with Paul Metzger and Palmer/Sowell/Helgeson Trio)
July 7 – Madison, WI @ Bright Red Studio
July 8 – Chicago, IL @ Elastic Arts (with Zelienople, Marielle Jakobsons)
July 10 – Portland, OR @ Xchurch (solo set and with Terrane, Marielle Jakobsons)
July 11 – Seattle, WA @ Debacle Fest, Columbia Theater (solo set and with Terrane)
July 28 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
July 29 – Asheville, NC @ Mothlight (with Tashi Dorji/Shane Parish Duo)
July 30 – Charlottesville, VA @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
July 31 – Silver Spring, MD @ Pyramid Atlantic
Aug 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Random Tea Room (with Eric Carbonara)
Aug 2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
Aug 3 – TBA
Aug 4 – Hudson, NY @ Half Moon (with Alexander Turnquist and Pigeons)
Aug 5 – Easthampton, MA @ Flywheel (with Glenn Jones)
Aug 6 – Ithaca, NY @ TBA (with Powerdove)
Aug 7 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Acoustic Music Works
Aug 8 – Columbus, OH @ It Looks Like It’s Open (with Mike Fekete)
Aug 9 – Lexington, KY – TBA
Aug 10 – Louisville, KY @ Dreamland
Aug 11 – Nashville, TN @ Portland Brew
Aug 12 – Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light
Aug 13 – Atlanta, GA @ Mammal Gallery
Aug 14 – Raleigh, NC @ Neptune’s
Aug 15 – Washington, DC @ Babe City (with Jesse Sparhawk)

Ten Years Ago - Brad Wood

Ragtime Ralph - Guitar Tabs

Today I've got a few more guitar tabs for y'all.  The mysterious (or maybe not so...) Paul sent these to me recently.  A small collection of Ragtime Ralph tabs.  Enjoy.


Texas Tomatoes

Late Train Blues

In Memory of Sam McGee

Ghost Rider Blues

         

Isasa - Las cosas

House of Dragons - Nick Jonah Davis

Ralph Johnston - Poor Boy

divShare is down

Hi all,

The file sharing service I use is down and has been for days. I have no idea what is going on and they aren't talking...sorry for the bummer. Hopefully they survive...uploading to a new site would be...arduous to say the least.

Fahey circa 1983

Fahey circa 1983 at one of the "Let Go" Recording Sessions in Portland, OR. with Terry Robb.

Thanks to Terry for sending me the picture above.

Thanks to everyone that helped out with Fahey Week this year!

John Fahey Guitar Tabs

Son House

City of Refuge

Charles A Lee: In Memoriam














Thanks to Malcolm for these!!

Fahey's Dance of Death Outtakes

Outtakes, fragments, unreleased songs. John Fahey recorded a whole host of material over the course of a couple days. Stephen of the John Fahey blog originally uploaded lots of Fahey outtakes and unissued material. This upload was hosted on his blog up until around 2007-2008. All of this content has since shown up on blogs across the internet. But these sessions are the one thing that has not been re-uploaded. Aside from tagging the MP3s with proper titles, I present it here as is.

It seems with the advent of Spotify and the ability for content owners to throw together compilations, a lot of random outtakes and unissued studio material has shown up, labeled as “Best Of” comps and the like. It is a heap of a mess, but if you search through there, you can find many gems.

The full, unreleased song, “TV Rag” aka “The Television Rag”, is one cut that has not shown up in those comps referenced above. The only place it has since existed was on Stephen’s blog. Fahey taught Ragtime Ralph, aka Ralph Johnson, aka Blind Brand X, the “TV Rag” when Ralph hosted a show of John’s in the 80s. Ralph’s great version appeared on his release “Volume 4”.

John Fahey - The Dance of Death Outtakes
Silver Spring, Maryland (1965)
Download it HERE
Thanks to Rag Lore for these and for the text!