John Fahey
John Fahey
John Aloysius Faheywas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.
We're trying to find ways for our kids to give back to the community, give back to the school, ... We're also really working on giving them the work they can take with them way beyond high school.
Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.
As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
But when I come off stage, I do not want adulation, I do not want to be worshipped.
So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn't know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff.
Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
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Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
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I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.
In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth.