Live in Tasmania

by John Fahey

Live in Tasmania cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Takoma
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:35
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live at the Theatre Royal in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1980. This album showcases Fahey's masterful acoustic fingerpicking and idiosyncratic compositions in an intimate setting, capturing his distinct blend of blues, folk, and avant-garde influences.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, complex, technical, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Introduction By Stefan Markovitch (13:34)
  2. The Approaching Of The Disco Void (6:49)
  3. Waltzing Matilda (2:27)
  4. Fahey Establishes Rapport With The Tasmanians, a Dissertation On "Obscurity" (8:54)
  5. Steamboat Gwine 'Round De Bend (4:55)
  6. Indian-Pacific R.R. Blues (4:58)

Credits

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