America

John Fahey - America

America
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Artist: John Fahey
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-03-25
Music Label: Takoma
Soundtracks:
  1. Jesus Is a Dying Bedmaker
  2. Amazing Grace - John Fahey, Newton, John
  3. Song #3
  4. Special Rider Blues - John Fahey, James, Skip
  5. Dvorák - John Fahey, Public Domain [1]
  6. Jesus Is a Dying Bedmaker 2
  7. Finale
  8. America
  9. Dalhart, Texas, 1967
  10. Knoxville Blues - John Fahey, McGee, Sam
  11. Mark 1:15
  12. Voice of the Turtle
  13. The Waltz That Carried Us Away and Then a Mosquito Came and Ate Up My Sweet

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Free Music Review: Pleasure for the Mind
Hit: 4 Stars

When I read about John Fahey I thought his music would be detached, something to listen to one the backporch of an woods filled east texas home. I was kind of right. This album is a gem to listen to. Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker 1 and 2 is one of my favorites by him his a lifting and joyous with a little hint of blues. The cover of Amazing Grace is slow and not as up lifting but as in any Fahey song it features the octave bass line. Song #3is a medium tempo acostic blues number kind of rag-time feel going on. Special Rider Blues is a good song with a hypnotic rift simular to Nick Drake's Parasite. Dvorak is a beatiful waltz by the great polish composer. Finale is kind of a throwaway it doesn't have that spactacular ending sound. America is of the long epic series of songs with this one being probably Faheys only song to be played with a twelve string. Dalhart Texas by Sam Magee never heard of is a slow mendering song is D kind of ambient sounding but it picks up in the middle. Knoxvile Blues is a good piece not bad. The detatched Mark 1:15 dosent do much ethier but it has some beatiful appagiated lines worth hearing. Voice of the Turtle is like Dalhart Texas just to listen to while doing something else. This piece slowly changes with is interesnting too. The snappy echoish The Waltz That Carried Us Away is just a wierd piece, the middle is good with the sturm lines I just don't care for the opening part. I wrote most of the songs don't go know where but who cares it is great to listen to still and thats why it is a great album.

America Poster

Though America was released in 1971 as a single LP, finger-style guitarist John Fahey conceived it as a double album. This CD finally allows Fahey's full vision to be heard (an additional nine tracks are included here for the first time). It's a true treat for Fahey lovers. The title track features the guitarist on the 12-string guitar, sounding more resonant than ever on the seven-minute composition. "Dvorak" is based on the composer's Eighth Symphony, which Fahey tackles in fine fashion. Fahey also performs a methodical rendition of "Amazing Grace" as well as covers of Sam McGee and Skip James tunes. But Fahey's original tunes--the soul-stirring, 15-minute-long "Mark 1:15," the playfully weird "The Waltz That Carried Us Away...," and the gorgeous melody of "Song #3"--are obvious highlights. The classical, gospel, folk, and blues influences that always permeate Fahey's playing abound on America and make it one of his great recordings. --Jason Verlinde

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