Guitar Vol. 4: The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions

by John Fahey

Guitar Vol. 4: The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions cover art

Fahey begins to stretch his acoustic blues picking into longer, more dissonant improvisations on his fourth volume. The title track occupies an entire side of the record, weaving nervous, accelerating guitar patterns with subtle tape manipulation to create an increasingly hypnotic tension.

Genres

  • American Primitivism
  • Psychedelic Folk

Tracklist

  1. The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party
  2. Knott's Berry Farm Molly
  3. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
  4. Guitar Excursions Into The Unknown
  5. 900 Miles
  6. Sail Away Ladies
  7. Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel