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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 18, 2015 - 08:56am PT
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I'm not obsessive about paying to see this thesis.
Charlie lived, died, and played the blues should be a fine enough thing to say about him.
Using that as a model, let me tell you about John Fahey, who lived, died, and played primitive blues, hymns, Christmas carols, and his own "hiart" compositions on his own record label, Takoma. He liked turtles, too.
Wunnerful stuff.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 24, 2016 - 01:14pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Has not been heard on ST since November 16, 2013.
Doctor Harouni posted it.
San Bernardino has since acquired new meaning.
This musical message still reads the same.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Jan 24, 2017 - 02:09pm PT
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Is this the same John Fahey that wrote the most excellent book "The Flathead Indians"? I'm thinking not but anyways it's the best book I've read on that topic. How many JFs could there be? Copyright is 1974
Arne
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 24, 2017 - 04:27pm PT
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Kinda doubt it, but anything's possible.^^
Sharpheads, maybe. :0)
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 24, 2017 - 07:23pm PT
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University of Oklahoma
By the sixties, Guitar man was a Califorian and then Oregonian
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You are getting very sleepy.
Your eyelids are getting very heavy.
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An explanation in here of "American primitive" style (all BS).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Thinking of nita. Kind thoughts. Andy, yer so blessed. Merry Christmas.
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D A D F# A D
I sometimes come to this thread to grieve.
Some days I come to sit in the sun.
Missing my thumb tonight--bless you, Big Boy.
Wish I had a guitar--one that reaches the stars.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Steffan Grossman interview...
http://www.guitarvideos.com/interviews/john-fahey
S: The name Blind Joe Death, where did that originate from?
J: (Laughs) Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the label say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
The reason it said "blind" is because a lot of the people I learned from were on old 78 RPM records and a lot of them were blind, and their names were Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Joe Taggart, on and on, a whole bunch of them were blind.
So me and a guy named Greg Eldridge we were sitting around drinking a beer one night and I was trying to find a catchy name for the other guy and he was helping me and he finally said "Blind Joe Death", and I said "Um, that’s it".
Also I was thinking, when ever you print the word "Death" people look at it and I was thinking of record sales already even though I was only going to have a hundred copies pressed. (laughs).
Rev. Gary Davis - Candyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ
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