Volume 6: Days Have Gone By

by John Fahey

Volume 6: Days Have Gone By cover art

'Volume 6: Days Have Gone By' documents John Fahey's synthesis of traditional American folk and blues fingerpicking with a significant turn toward avant-garde composition. The album juxtaposes rustic guitar soli with expansive, experimental pieces that incorporate tape splicing, field recordings of trains, and Eastern-influenced raga structures. Through its pioneering use of musique concrète techniques alongside virtuosic performance, the work creates a complex, meditative soundscape that defines a key phase of Fahey's American Primitivism.

Genres

  • American Primitivism

Tracklist

  1. The Revolt Of The Dyke Brigade
  2. Impressions Of Susan
  3. Joe Kirby Blues
  4. Night Train To Valhalla
  5. The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith California
  6. A Raga Called Pat - Part One
  7. A Raga Called Pat - Part Two
  8. My Shepherd Will Supply My Needs
  9. My Grandfather's Clock
  10. Days Have Gone By
  11. We Would Be Building