Volume 1: Blind Joe Death (180g LP)
Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Year: 2015 Media Condition: New Sleeve/Cover Condition: New TRACKS:A1 On Doing An Evil BluesA2 St. Louis BluesA3 Poor Boy Long Ways From HomeA4 Uncloudy DayA5 John HenryA6 In Christ There Is No East Or WestB1 The Transcendental WaterfallB2 Desperate Man BluesB3 Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door SomedayB4 Sligo River BluesB5 I'm Going To Do All I Can For My LordOriginally released in 1967.PERSONNEL:John Fahey - guitarThe finger-picking guitarist, composer, and innovator John Fahey enjoyed a long, influential and distinguished career. Born in Washington DC in 1939 and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, he launched his own Takoma label to issue self-produced work in the late 1950s and then delivered his master's thesis on the blues of Charlie Patton at UCLA.Then, while based in the radical town of Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay area, began issuing filed recordings of forgotten blues legends, such as Bukka White. With his own work, Fahey bega