Volume 1: Blind Joe Death

by John Fahey

Volume 1: Blind Joe Death cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Takoma
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A completely overhauled and re-recorded version of his legendary 1959 debut, 'Volume 1: Blind Joe Death' features the steel-string master in peak technical form. Expanding on the mythos of his alter-ego Blind Joe Death, the record intertwines traditional Piedmont blues fingerpicking with complex, dissonant modern classical structures. This pressing cemented the foundation of the American Primitivism movement for a growing 1960s underground audience.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, Acoustic, Folk, acoustic, complex, folk, instrumental, ballad, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. On Doing An Evil Deed Blues
  2. St. Louis Blues
  3. Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
  4. Uncloudy Day
  5. John Henry
  6. In Christ There Is No East Or West
  7. The Transcendental Waterfall
  8. Desperate Man Blues
  9. Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday Blues
  10. Sligo River Blues
  11. I'M Gonna Do All I Can For My Lord

Credits

  • John Fahey - primary artist, acoustic guitar, written-by
  • Blind Joe Death - written-by
  • W. C. Handy - written-by
  • Barbecue Bob - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by

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