John Fahey Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death UK LP Transatlantic TRA 173 VG+

	£		26
	$		34

John Fahey – The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death was issued in the UK in 1968  on Transatlantic TRA 173. First (and presumably only) pressing with TRA 173 A1 / TRA 173 B1 matrix numbers.

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 Primitivism, 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. Fahey wrote a largely apocryphal autobiography. 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.

The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death was originally issued by Riverboat Records in the USA in 1965, initially in a hand-lettered edition of 50. It was the first Fahey album to be released in the UK, on Transatlantic Records.

The title refers to a fictional bluesman named Blind Joe Death, first introduced by Fahey on his debut album Blind Joe Death. For years Fahey continued to treat the imaginary guitarist as a real person, including booklets with their LPs containing biographical information about him and that he had taught Fahey to play.

Tracks:

Side One   

1.   Beautiful Linda Getchell

2.   Orinda-Moraga

3.   I Am the Resurrection

4.   On the Sunny Side of the Ocean

5.   Tell Her to Come Back Home

6.   My Station Will Be Changed After Awhile

7.   101 Is a Hard Road to Travel

Side Two   

1.   How Green Was My Valley

2.   Bicycle Built for Two

3.   The Death of the Clayton Peacock

4.   Brenda's Blues

5.   Old Southern Medley

6.   Come Back Baby

7.   Poor Boy

8.   Saint Patrick's Hymn

Personnel:

John Fahey: Guitar

L. Mayne Smith: Banjo

Recorded by Brian & Barry Hansen in 1965 at MIT, Cambridge, MA and Berkeley, CA

Produced by Riverboat Eric

Single fully laminated sleeve is in Excellent (+) condition with no edge or cornerwear. The only small things of note are a small dink to the top right corner and some light tape residue along the bottom edge. One or two very light creases in the laminate.

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