John Fahey - Christmas With John Fahey Volume II album download

For somebody, who was impoverished nearly all his life this commercial success was of some importance. So that is probabaly the reason why he recorded four of them over the years. Starting with the incredible „New Possibility album in 1968, followed by „Christmas with John Fahey Vol. II both for Takoma and two posterior albums for Varrick. Despite the fact, that „Christmas with. has probably the most psychedelic Christmas record cover ever, the tracklist goes contrary to our expectations: Oh Tannenbaum, Jingle Bells, White Christmas, to name the prominent

The Volume II album, on the other hand, comes across mostly as just straight-up Christmas music that happens to be played by John Fahey and a friend (except for the bonkers second half). Thank you for the upgrade on this album FG. Fahey was indeed a very unique guy and guitarist. These tunes are indeed a very fine addition to any Christmas music collection. January 8, 2014 at 6:19 pm. I had these tunes (lossy) as part of a Fahey Christmas comp (both volumes) so I'm glad to get this in FLAC. Fahey was certainly a unique and eccentric artist. It can also be a plus for other artists I think.

John Fahey – 01 - Requiem For John Hurt - 1967 - Requia &. :57. John Fahey – 08 - Fight On Christians, Fight On - 1967 . :56. John Fahey – 02 - Requiem For Russell Blaine Cooper . :40. John Fahey – 04 - Requiem For Molly (Part 1) - 1967 . :49. John Fahey – Russian Christmas Overture. John Fahey/The New Possibility John Fahey s Guitar Soli Christmas Album - Christmas With John Fahey Vol. II – Medley Hark, The Herald Angels Sing/O Com. John Fahey – Guitar Solo (title unknown). John Fahey – 03 - When The Catfish is in Bloom - 1967 .

Since 1968 John Fahey has recorded three more Christmas albums, and one of Easter hymns, but Christmas with John Fahey, Volume Two is easily the best of the rest, including, as it does, some gleaming and exciting duets with Rick Ruskin. Listen to Russian Christmas Overture, included along with virtually all of the second album on this new package. The two albums have been married onto one CD for this release, omitting just one piece due to time constraints.

The guitarist John Fahey got this correct in 1968 on The New Possibility-his landmark first Christmas album, or the Fahey record people tend to know if they don’t know much Fahey. Released during one of the most productive portions of his career, just as his cult and commercial appeal began to converge, The New Possibility collects 14 diverse holiday tunes, from his tinny and pensive strum through Auld Lang Syne to a frenetic introductory take on Joy to the World. Fahey plays the hymn with painstaking slowness, peeling apart the chords until you can make out each halting note and even the shifts of his hands between them. Fahey’s thoughtful technique subtly, wordlessly expresses the tension of Sears’ original hymn-a vision of despair, cut by a hope for redemption.

John Fahey has made a habit of recording a new album of Christmas music every five or six years, but The New Possibility, which was originally released in 1968, is still his best. On it, Fahey has pulled off the near miraculous feat of taking old holiday chestnuts like "Joy to the World" and "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" and making them sound fresh.

The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album is a 1968 album by American folk musician John Fahey. It is a collection of solo-guitar arrangements of familiar Christmas songs and has been Fahey's best selling recording, remaining in print since it was first released. The album is especially noteworthy since holiday music had never before been played in Fahey's acoustic-steel string blues guitar style.

1982 Christmas Guitar Volume I (A re-recording of The New Possibility) Track List The Guitar of John Fahey - 6 one-hour tutorial cassettes. Miscellaneous Sessions. Italian Recording Session with Maurizio Angeletti. 1991 The John Fahey Christmas Album Track List. 1994 The Return of the Repressed (all previously released) Track List. 1996 John Fahey in Concert (video) Double 78 Track List Three guitar tutorial videos The Legend of Blind Joe Death (re-issue) The Voice of the Turtle (re-issue). John Fahey - The Early Sessions Re-issued as The Legend of Blind Joe Death on CD 1996. Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes 1964/1967. Volume Two. Recorded Berkeley, CA, late 1963.