John Fahey, Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes - 1h 19m 15s

Tracks & Durations

1. Sunflower River Blues	2:24
2. When the Springtime Comes Again	3:52
3. Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border	6:58
4. Some Summer Day	3:22
5. On the Beach at Waikiki	2:57
6. Spanish Dance	1:55
7. John Henry Variations	5:41
8. The Downfall of the Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill	3:37
9. Take a Look at that Baby	1:26
10. Spain	2:30
11. America	7:53
12. Episcopal Hymn	1:13
13. Sunflower River Blues	3:21
14. When the Springtime Comes Again	4:54
15. Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border	5:35
16. Some Summer Day	3:26
17. On the Beach at Waikiki	2:40
18. Spanish Dance	2:06
19. John Henry Variations	5:13
20. Take a Look at that Baby	1:26
21. America	5:00
22. Episcopal Hymn	1:21

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Review

This inspired collection reissues all the music from John Fahey's genre-expansive, groundbreaking 1964 disc Death Chants and its (mostly) rerecorded version from 1967. On both discs Fahey's finger picking is nimble and awe-inspiring, his head afire with ideas both revolutionary and musically pure. His goal was to reconcile a love for American primitive folk traditions and 20th-century classical music; by 1967 he'd largely succeeded. Death Chants is one of the most intense, life-affirming, and visionary recordings of the 1960s, and the clear (and thankfully not digitally messed-with) sound plus context-heavy, insightful liner notes by Byron Coley make the reissue a must even for folks who own the original artifacts. --Mike McGonigal

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