Blind Joe Death (Takoma LP)
Format: LPLabel: TakomaYear: 2010Media Condition: NewSleeve/Cover Condition: New TRACKS: A1 On Doing An Evil Blues A2 St. Louis Blues A3 Poor Boy Long Ways From Home A4 Uncloudy Day A5 John Henry A6 In Christ There Is No East Or West B1 The Transcendental Waterfall B2 Desperate Man Blues B3 Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday B4 Sligo River Blues B5 I'm Going To Do All I Can For My LordOriginal recordings from 1964 and 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 theses 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, Fah