john fahey

For those less familiar with John Fahey’s later catalogue, Proofs and Refutations is a great starting point, juxtaposing elegant acoustic picking, crazed vocals in places and distorted guitar. For the rest of you, just enjoy this wonderfully rich and idiosyncratic set.

Today, Drag City announced the release of ‘Proofs & Refutations‘ (September 8th), a new John Fahey album featuring recordings from 1995/96. Prior to this period, Fahey, who passed away on February 22, 2001, had dropped out of music after battling with chronic fatigue syndrome, alcoholism and diabetes. American music critic Byron Coley then ran a profile piece on him for Spin magazine in 1994 that essentially relaunched his career. On …

Every so often an album comes along with a truly original sound. Seven Years Late by 20-year old Texan guitar prodigy Hayden Pedigo is one of those albums. Taking influences from traditional American music to the avant-garde.

Our Song of the Day is from a video of John Fahey performing ‘Red Pony’ in 1969. You can now pre-order first definitive biography John Fahey which is out in June this year.

John Fahey fans will be pleased to hear that the first definitive biography of the legendary American Primitive guitarist will be published in June 2014 by Chicago Review Press.

we are very pleased to be offering this exclusive video premiere of Glenn Jones performing Bergen County Farewell which is taken from his forthcoming album My Garden State which is released on Thrill Jockey in May.

Little Martha is a gem of an album from David Tattersall on which he plays tribute to the ‘American Promitive’ work of John Fahey. Do yourself a favour and get this album, turn the world off, sit back and enjoy!

Lux Harmonium is the stage name of Devon based guitarist and singer / songwriter Luke Jones, ‘an analogue affair, timeless and strangely classic’.

Welcome to the Friday Folk Music Club when we feature videos, tunes and the occasional free folk music track that all convey the spirit of Folk Radio UK. In our first we feature: The Watersons, Sea of Bees, James Vincent McMorrow, John Fahey, Tim Eriksen, Spirit Family Reunion and Lisa Hannigan. Plus free tracks from Lucy Ward and Southern Tenant Folk Union!

This is the first of our Frukie Round-ups where we take a brief look at whats out there. I’m hoping for this to be a regular and I intend to cover a broad range from Indie folk to progressive Trad…we get so many albums sent for review that we can’t possibly cover all of them but this may help re-address that balance a little.