Andrew Lardner: Blind Joe Death: Guitar: Artist Songbook
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John Fahey transformed the world of the acoustic flat-top steel-string Guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at theimportant people and genres that shaped him as a composer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo Guitar. HintsofHints of Fahey's early influences endured throughout his career as a composer yet early on and in Blind Joe Death a unique voice is coming into focus one that is not afraid to explore theavant-garde with journeys into collage and expressionism.Six extensively edited solos from Blind Joe Death are included in Volume 1: 'On Doing an Evil Deed Blues ' 'St. Louis Blues ' 'Poor Boy a LongWays from Home ' 'Uncloudy Day ' 'John Henry' and 'In Christ There Is No East or West.' Within these transcriptions Andrew Lardner has provided admirers of John Fahey's body of work with theessential keys to launch their own journeys into replicating the sounds and style of Fahey's landmark solos from Blind Joe Death.
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