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John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian music into his œuvre. He spent many of his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career resurgence with a turn towards the more explicitly avant-garde, and created a series of abstract paintings during the last years of his life. He died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he was ranked 35th in the Rolling Stone "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list.
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Albums
The Mill Pond EP
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Womblife
City of Refuge
Let Go
Old Fashioned Love
After the Ball
America
Requia
Blind Joe Death
Popular Songs
- Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt
- Deep River / Old Man River
- I'm a Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home
- Magic Mountain
- Nothing
- More Nothing
- Gamelan Guitar
- Come On in My Kitchen
- Gamelan Collage
- The New Red Pony
- Tuff
- Our Puppet Selves
- Maggie Campbell Blues
- Thoth Song
- When Kings Come Home
- As I Lay Sleeping
- Ice Miner
- St. Charles Shuffle
- Anyway
- Cripple Creek
- Red and White
- Medley: Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly / We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- The Waltz You Saved for Me
- Do You Hear What I Hear
- Christmas Time Is Here
- Medley: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow / Winter Wonderland
- The Transcendental Waterfall
- Father of our Fathers
- Just As I Am
