John Fahey - Aurora, Oregon 1999

This is from Fahey's electric phase,  not eclectic, that would be his whole career, eh?  Death Don't have no Mercy in This Land has some classic Fahey chatter just before the tune.  So actually at the end of track two, where he starts off telling us how he stole this song (sound familiar?) but recants on a technically, hilarious   Then tells us the difference between spirituals and gospel songs concluding with, "...hardly anybody knows that, I hardly know it myself."  Ha!!
Another gem from Damian.

01 Untitled
02 Song By Route 99
03 Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land
04 Juana
05 Son House _ Marylin _ My Prayer

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John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers Tab

Just the other day a message pops up on the Fahey board saying, hey I did a tab of Fahey's FFV and here it is if anyone wants it.  Wow, that's a 20 minute song!  That's a lot of tab.  That man is Nikita K. and to add to it he has a YouTube of it as well.  I encourage you to check it out.  Fantastic.

You can download the full tab (all 43 pages) HERE  It's a great lookin' tab from one of the computer TAB programs, very readable.

Going to be very light around here this week.  Normally I run a Fahey week but I've been rather busy lately and didn't work up a week's worth of material.  But, today in 2001, Fahey left this world but also left us his music.  So have a seat, download the tab and pay tribute by playing Fare Forward Voyagers.
     

John Fahey - Peel Sessions May 28th 1969

What do we have today, you ask?  Well how about a little bootleg Fahey from the BBC?  Paul Bryant says that the first time he heard Fahey was on John Peel's show, then called Top Gear.  And thank goodness for that!  Bryant went on to be a bit of a Fahey fan contributing/managing, etc to the huge collection of Fahey info available at JohnFahey.com.

Yeah, just your average fan...hehehe

It was Death of the Clayton Peacock that did the poor man in, for life.  That track is included in the files I have, but unfortunately not all of the tracks are here.  They are probably out there some where...  I have the following tracks in my files, offered here for your enjoyment.

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Bucktown Stomp
The Death of the Clayton Peacock
Sunflower River Blues
In Christ There is no East or West
Steel Guitar Rag

Info about this session HERE is from the JohnFahey.com site.

Here is the info available from the BBC site on this session.
22/05/1969 - John Fahey
TX - 28/05/1969
Producer - Pete Ritzema
Engineer - Mike Harding
Studio - Studio S2, Sub-Basement, Broadcasting House
TRACKLIST
Buckingham Stomp
Death Of The Claytown Peacock
Sunflower River Blues
In Christ There Is No East Or West
Steel Guitar Rag
Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip Xv
Some Summer Day
Poor Boy

If anyone has the complete session I would love to hear it, also curious what Peel had to say.  These tracks are chit-chat free.
Oh, and also free!
 

John Fahey - BBC Night Ride 1969

Well look here!  We gots us some Fahey on the radio!  I posted this show back during the 2011 Fahey week.  However, if you prefer a little more feel for how it was broadcast, this version has a little banter on either side of the tunes by John Peel.

Thanks to Damian for sending this along and encouraging me to share it.




Here's the setlist

Bucktown Stomp
The Death of the Clayton Peacock
Sunflower River Blues
In Christ There is no East or West
Steel Guitar Rag

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John Fahey - live bootleg The Barn University of California Riverside, CA

Painting by Fahey

John Fahey as Jim Jones...
One day I was talking to one of my co-workers and I said something about Jim Jones and got a blank stare.  Now the blank stare is more my shtick than his so I reminded him of the guy that got something like 900 people to commit suicide...nothing.  Then I had a senior moment.  Not that I forgot anything other than the fact that I was talking to a 20-something kid.  And that will make ya feel old.  He actually thought I was bullshitting him.  Well. Anyway...
John Fahey was having a Jim Jones moment that was brought up on the Fahey forum recently and there were some interested in hearing it.  I happen to have it so I thought I would share it.

Here is the text, as transcribed from the Fahey forum:

Oh, I just want to take a cigarette break...mumble...it's this dissolute, horrible, disgusting, nauseating guitar-playing, travelling around, picking up girls...after a while it gets to you. One day...ah‚ my life is bad enough without having to listen to...mumble... I think I'll take up a different line. I don't know how to do anything except play the guitar and be sinful and lead a dissolute life and travel around and be nauseating... and get people to feel sorry for me. Yeah but who wants to go to a gym and... I mean I used to do that. Oh there must be some way out of this awful life. In fact I tried suicide and it won't work, I really did, sixty-five, thirty-forty valium, I woke up in intensive care. You know...three days and three nights in a motel room. Doctor said, well if that won't kill you nothing will. There's no way OUT. Got a gun but my psychiatrist took my gun away. He won't gimme any more sleeping pills. He's got my gun in his closet. I wonder what else is in that closet, what he's got from his other patients...I mean it's been six years and I'm still sweating, leading a dissipated sinful nauseating disgusting life, playing guitar, picking up girls, sleeping, playing guitar. Surely there must be a better way to live. If I could only find it. I could go to sleep. We could all go to sleep. Why don't we all go home and - why don't we go out back and have a joint suicide? Let's all go out back and commit suicide. Every one of us. The neat thing would be when the newspapers come they won't know what happened. Nobody will be able to figure it out. Ergh......noisy places, fulla cigarette smoke. Well, I got through that cigarette...

Downloading the whole show

John Fahey
6 November 1976
The Barn
University of California
Riverside, CA

Track list:
Disc 1
01. Thus Krishna on the Battlefield & Fare Forward Voyagers
02. Steamboat Gwine Round Da Bend...& Death of the Clayton Peacock & How Green Was My Valley
03. Mark 1:15
04. "cigarette break"
05. On the Sunny Side of the Ocean & Spanish Two-Step

Disc 2
01. Christ Saints of God Fantasy & Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania Alabama Border & In Christ There Is No East or West & Beverly
02. Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain
03. Some Summer Day & Brenda's Blues & Spanish Dance
04. On the Sunny Side of the Ocean & Spanish Dance
05. ...Lion
06. Melody McBad & Revolt of the Dyke Brigade & Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt
07. The Discovery of Sylvia Scott

This is a big file, 310mb so be patient.  Get it HERE
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John Fahey - January 1968: Live in Santa Barbara, California

Here is a great boot from 1968. 

Great performance, not a great recording, but no matter, the music makes up for it.

January 1968: Live in Santa Barbara, California

1. The Yellow Princess (8:07)

2. Requiem for Molly Part Five (8:31)
3. Requiem for Lion (5:58)
4. Commemorative Transfiguration and Communion at Magruder Park (11:53)
5. Irish Setter (9:58)
44:27 total time

What a great set!  I think this is the only boot that I have with Irish Setter on it.  I've always loved that song. All kinds of good chit-chat from Fahey.
Get it here: Santa Barbara
 

John Fahey - Bucktown Stomp & Dalhart, TX 1967 Guitar TAB

John Fahey and guitar TAB.  I expect your heart is racing.  Mine is!  If you were drooling over the FFV tab posted early this week, you may have noticed a few comments about TAB sharing.

Well MTW has very generously offered to share some Fahey TABs of his own.  These are his hand-written works.  Part of a life-time of playing and TABing Fahey's works.

So what have we got?  Well we've got a couple pieces that aren't really found out there on the internet so dig in and start picking!  It's Fahey's birthday!!

Bucktown Stomp

&

Dalhart, TX 1967

If you benefit from these like I will, be sure to drop a Thank You in the comments!

John Fahey - Louisville 1977

01 Steamboat Gwine 'Round De Bend
02 How Green Was My Valley
03 Worried Blues
04 Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
05 The Red Pony
06 Ann Arbour _ Death By Reputation
07 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
08 Stomping Tonight Fantasy _ In Christ There Is No East Or West _ Beverly
09 The Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain
10 Some Summer Day
11 Medley_ Candy Man _ Brenda's Blues _ Spanish Dance
12 St. Louis Blues
13 Mark 1.15

Thanks again to Damian for taking so much time to get these files to me.  Are your ears exploding yet?

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Glenn Jones -"Fleeting" out March 18

"Flower Turned Inside-Out" is from the upcoming Glenn Jones album "Fleeting," out March 18, 2016 on Thrill Jockey Records.

Upcoming tour dates announced!
Mar. 19 - Somerville, MA - Arts at the Armory Cafe (presented by Journeys in Sound)
Mar. 28 - Providence, RI - Aurora Providence
Apr. 3 - Quebec City, QC - Grand Théâtre de Québec (early show at 11 a.m.)
Apr. 4 - Montreal, QC - Casa del Popolo
Apr. 5 - Toronto, ON - Tranzac Club
Apr. 8 - Iowa City, IA - Trumpet Blossom Cafe (Mission Creek Festival)
Apr. 9 - Chicago, IL - Constellation Chicago
Apr. 10 - Lexington, KY - Natasha's
Apr. 12 - Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
Apr. 13 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
Apr. 14 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight Bar & Club
Apr. 15 - Philadelphia, PA - The Rotunda
Apr. 16 - Harrisburg, PA - Der Maennerchor Cathedral Room

      

Ralph Johnston - The Lost Rose of Kyrah... Guitar Tab

The tuning is EBBEBBb (6th to 1st)

A good fan has tabbed this out and sent it to me, enjoy.

Guitar Tab PDF

Guitar Tab GPX