John Fahey - Voice of the Turtle / Orig '68 Gatefoild

$

50

ARTIST: John Fahey
LABEL: Takoma C-10119 (1968 Stereo)
TITLE: The Voice of the Turtle
CONDITION:
Sleeve: Very nice & strong VG++ w/ a whisper of wear on the front cover, a little light ring wear on the back cover, a little light bottom seam wear
Record: Beautiful! Looks Mint- w/ a few light surface scuffs. Plays Mint- / VPI cleaned / By the spindle hole it looks like this LP may have been played once.
COMMENTS: Very nice original 1968 copy in very heavy gatefold sleeve. Does not include the original booklet.
Track listing : 1. Bottleneck Blues... 2. Bill Cheatum... 3. Lewisdale Blues... 4. Bean Vine Blues... 5. Bean Vine Blues #2... 6. Raga Called Pat, Part III... 7. Raga Called Pat, Part IV... 8. Train... 9. Je Ne Me Suis Reveillais Matin Pas en May.... 10. Story of Dorothy Gooch, Part I... 11. Nine-Pound Hammer... 12. Lonesome Valley...
Recorded at Sierra Sound Recorders, Berkeley, California in 1968. Includes liner notes by John Fahey. On THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE, John Fahey brings a progressive, highly conceptual approach to his love of rural roots music in a set that's both accessible and disquieting in its effects. Fahey's unique acoustic guitar style sounds much as it does on his earliest Takoma recordings, synthesizing old time blues and country structures with progressive harmonies and melodies. On TURTLE, however, Fahey plays with notions of genre and authenticity as well, recreating the scratchy effects of old 78 rpm records ("Bean Vine Blues #2"), front porch Cajun ("Bill Cheatum"), and drunken, deep swamp hollering ("The Story of Dorothy Gooch, Part I), to name a few. Ever the trickster, Fahey rips his "historical" canvas with the inclusion of tracks like "A Raga Called Pat, Parts III and IV" in which eerie, off-kilter slide work floats through a cloud of intensely psychedelic electronic effects. Fahey's trickster mission is further reinforced by the album's hilarious, mock-historical liner notes-- written, of course, by Fahey himself under an assumed, rather long-winded and digressive alter ego. A quirky disc that manages to be at once highly conceptual, stylistically idiosyncratic, yet wonderfully listenable, THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE is an important addition to any Fahey collection.
NOTE: VPI cleaned means that this record was cleaned on a professional $500 cleaning machine, which does wonders for the playback of all vinyl records!
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