you can listen to all kind of music great music, from Mozart to Beethoven and spend your whole life walking the road of musical excellence but at the end of it, the kind of music that you end up with is the child like nursery ryhme melodies that you started of with.
Fahey knew this and that's why he is in my book the greatest composer that ever lived.
hi glen
this is probably his best piece, i learned it in 1970. it's in open c tuning. It starts with a full straight bar of the 5th fret.and on and off fingering of the g string on the 7th fret while you still are barring the 5th. he uses a sort of reverse finger picking style for the opening lines Its an old blues technique i think called 'chocking style' ...and a little hard to make fluid....most of the rest of the piece is straight forward alternating bass with melody on top .
Strange and wonderful to realise that this and other songs by Fahey that I first heard and fell in love with in my mid teens were, and still are, the ground I built on for the man I am now in my mid sixties. They run that deep.
I realised something recently and that is when all is said and done I would have basically been the person who I am with or without all the music I've heard, apart from John Fahey and Jimi Hendrix. They uncovered something in me, revealed me to myself, through their music , in a way that I don't think I would have been able to on my own.
I've listened to this song more times than I can count, and the sheer beauty of it continues to astound me. There are some wonderful guitarists out there, but Fahey was some kind of special.
the spiritual aspect to his music really makes it unique. i really haven't found that in anyone else to such a degree. i've listened to the other guys too, it's just not the same.
Add a vocal? LOL, how very droll. His guitar sings. Please bear in mind recording hadn't quite reached the state of the art it is today. And, when he did this, the good studios didn't think this kind of stuff was any good. No, where's the teeny-bopper idol worshipper with actual TALENT? Gone.
Mississippi John Hurt? Don't let him get lost in here somewhere.
