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For today's post I'm pleased to present a piece by Steve Lowenthal who has written John Fahey's biography.
Dance of death john fahey biography amazon
Steve is currently running the VDSQ record label with new LPs coming soon from Anthony Pasquarosa, Sir Richard Bishop and Aaron Sheppard.
Ihave never been in the same room as John Fahey. That idea was central in my decision to write a biography on him.
His allure as a subject was equal parts his entrancing music and his baffling mystique. I became attached to the idea that Fahey couldn't wield any hold over me, that I could be critical and biased in my assessment of his life and work.
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But he did anyway. Coming from a journalism background there seemed to be plenty of entry points into his illusionary world. Fahey came to me in the suburbs. As a teenager in the early 1990s I eagerly explored the musical fringes dictated by people like Thurston Moore.
And all of the sudden, I bought CDs by Sun Ra, Minor Threat, Can, Autechre, and many more