Volume 5: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

by John Fahey

Volume 5: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1967
  • Label: Takoma
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:00
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing his profound mastery of the acoustic guitar, John Fahey's fifth volume is an incredibly complex, deeply hypnotic exploration of American roots music. 'The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death' is beautifully sparse and wonderfully mellow, weaving highly meditative, distinctly pastoral fingerpicking into a remarkably lo-fi, subtly melancholic instrumental journey.

Genres

Descriptors: Acoustic, instrumental, acoustic, lo-fi, guitars, experimental, minimal, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Beautiful Linda Getchell (1:54)
  2. Orinda-Moraga (3:55)
  3. I Am The Resurrection (2:53)
  4. On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean (3:13)
  5. Tell Her To Come Back Home (2:40)
  6. My Station Will Be Changed After While (2:02)
  7. 101 Is A Hard Road To Travel (2:18)
  8. How Green Was My Valley (2:16)
  9. Bicycle Built For Two (1:11)
  10. The Death Of The Clayton Peacock (2:54)
  11. Brenda's Blues (1:47)
  12. Old Southern Medley (6:08)
  13. Come Back Baby (2:19)
  14. Poor Boy (2:27)
  15. Saint Patrick's Hymn (0:56)

Credits

  • John Fahey - primary artist, edited by, written-by, arranged by
  • David Omar White - artwork [original album design and drawings]
  • Barry Hansen - edited by, recorded by
  • Ed Freeman - guitar
  • Mayne Smith - guitar, written-by
  • Charles Holloway - liner notes
  • Riverboat Ent. - producer
  • Brian Hansen - recorded by
  • Uncle Dave Macon - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Charley Patton - written-by
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett - written-by
  • Stephen Foster - written-by
  • Country Paul - written-by
  • Bukka White - written-by

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