John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was
an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the
steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been
greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American
Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the
self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed
from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having
compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later
incorporate classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian music into his
œuvre. Fahey wrote a largely apocryphal autobiography. He spent many of
his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career
resurgence with a turn towards the more explicitly avant-garde, and
created a series of abstract paintings during the last years of his
life. He died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he
was ranked 35th in the Rolling Stone "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of
All Time" list.
John Fahey-(1964)-The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
John Fahey-(1965)-The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
John Fahey-(1966)-The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party And Other Excursions
John Fahey-(1967)-Days Have Gone By
John Fahey-(1967)-The Legend of Blind Joe Death
John Fahey-(1968)-Requia
John Fahey-(1968)-The New Possibility John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album
John Fahey-(1968)-The New Possibility- John Fahey's Christmas Album Vols. I and II
John Fahey-(1968)-The Voice Of The Turtle
John Fahey-(1968)-The Yellow Princess (2006 Remaster)
John Fahey-(1969)-Live in Santa Barbara
John Fahey-(1971)-America
John Fahey-(1973)-After The Ball
John Fahey-(1973)-Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
John Fahey-(1974)-The Essential John Fahey
John Fahey-(1975)-Old Fashioned Love
John Fahey-(1979)-John Fahey Visits Washington, D.C
John Fahey-(1980)-Live In Tasmania
John Fahey-(1980)-Yes! Jesus Loves Me (Guitar Hymns)
John Fahey-(1982)-Christmas Guitar Volume One
John Fahey-(1983)-Railroad I
John Fahey-(1985)-Rain Forests, Oceans, And Other Themes
John Fahey-(1986)-Christmas Guitar
John Fahey-(1987)-I Remember Blind Joe Death
John Fahey-(1989)-God, Time and Causality
John Fahey-(1991)-The John Fahey Christmas Album
John Fahey-(1992)-Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories
John Fahey-(1994)-The John Fahey Anthology- Return Of The Repressed (Disc 1)
John Fahey-(1994)-The John Fahey Anthology- Return Of The Repressed (Disc 2)
John Fahey-(1997)-City of Refuge
John Fahey-(1997)-The Mill Pond
John Fahey-(1997)-Womblife
John Fahey-(1998)-Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
John Fahey-(1998)-Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts, and Other Contemporary Dance Favorites
John Fahey-(2001)-Hitomi
John Fahey-(2003)-Red Cross
John Fahey-(2004)-The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
John Fahey-(2005)-On Air
