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John Fahey
The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
Originally released in 1964, Dance of Death offers a glimpse of an artist in transformation. More than half the album's titles draw from the traditional blues and country repertoire Fahey had spent his teen years and young adulthood collecting, listening to, and learning to play, yet the recordings proved once and for all that his interests lay in musical transfigurations rather than preservation -- John Fahey was not afraid to use these old tunes as raw material.
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Cat. number: TAKCD-8909-2
Year: 2016
Notes:
Fahey's third album for Takoma. Recorded at Adelphi Studios, Silver Spring, MD; August 22, 1964.
Tracks 12-15 are bonus tracks that did not appear on the original LP.
