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FAVORITE CELTIC MELODIES, SO INCLINED, JOHN SHERMAN. CD TABLATURE

FAVORITE CELTIC MELODIES, SO INCLINED, JOHN SHERMAN. 28 melodie celtiche. CD TAB.

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FINGERPICKING PATTERN ENCYCLOPEDIA. CD TABLATURE

FINGERPICKING PATTERN ENCYCLOPEDIA. CD TABLATURE

Music by Lou Manz
CATEGORY: Guitar Method or Supplement
FORMAT: Book & CD
In addition to over 200 useful fingerstyle patterns, lessons on fingerstyle technique, reading music and 13 original fingerstyle compositions are included. Examples are shown in easy-to-read TAB and standard music notation. The CD includes performances of each pattern and the original compositions.

 

 

Introduction

This book is a collection of fingerpicking patterns that will hopefully be a resource, and a source of inspiration, for any guitarist, regardless of style. Since you have picked up this book, you probably already know how exciting and expressive fingerstyle guitar can be. Fingerstyle guitar is not really a style of music; rather it is an approach to guitar that transcends anyone particular style. Many acoustic singer/songwriters, and folk, blues and country players play fingerstyle guitar. Many jazz players also "comp" chords and improvise picking with their fingers, rather than a pick. Of course, fingerstyle technique is also the basis of most contemporary acoustic instrumental playing. Diverse guitarists from leadbelly to Eric C1apton, Merle Travis to Mark Knopfler and Elizabeth Cotton to Joe Pass have used fingerstyle techniques to create their original music.

One of the most definitive aspects of fingerstyle guitar is the use of picking patterns. This is especially true for singer/songwriters and folk/country players. Also, many of our leading acoustic instrumentalists, such as leo Kottke and Adrian legg, have used picking patterns as starting points for their innovative and melodic pieces. In fact, it would be difficult to think of an acoustic singer/guitarist or instrumentalist in folk, blues or country style who does not incorporate picking patterns into their music. This book is appropriate for guitarists of any style or level. Beginners should start with the classic patterns from each chapter and move on to other examples as they progress. Intermediate players will add interesting variations and entirely new patterns to their fingerstyle vocabulary. Even advanced players will find sequences that are new to them in this collection.

WHY FINGERSTYLE PATTERNS ARE USEFUL

They will give you a multitude of options for accompanying songs. You may want to learn a song by one of your favorite artists. Perhaps you have been able to "figure out" the chords by listening to the recording or you may learn the chords from a songbook. If the song was originally recorded using a fingerpicking pattern, you will probably find that pattern or something very close to it, in this book. Even when a song is not originally played fingerstyle, you can be creative and find a pattern that may match the style and rhythmic feel of the recording. Even piano-based pieces, such as Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water or Sarah Maclachlan's Angel can work in a fingerstyle setting. They are useful as technique exercises for fingerstyle players. Jazz guitarists practice a multitude of scales, modes and chord voicings. Since fingerstyle players use many picking patterns, it is valuable to practice both common and new patterns as exercises.They will help you develop strength, flexibility, speed and independence in the picking fingers. They can help you create original songs and instrumental pieces. Even well-worn chord progressions sound fresh with new and interesting patterns. Improvise with your favorite fingerpicking patterns and see what develops. The patterns in this encyclopedia are grouped according to type, time signature and special characteristics, such as the inclusion of an alternating bass, syncopation or double stops. A sample piece is provided at the end of each section to suggest some ideas for practical application, and to provide further inspiration. Use the book in any order and in any way that you like.  

 

 

Contents:

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

HOW TO USETHIS BOOK

 

GETTING STARTED

Music Notation

Technique

The Left Hand

The Right Hand

 

4/4 PATTERNS PART ONE

Easy Going

 

4/4 PATTERNS PART TWO

Suspended Animation

 

THREE-NOTE CHORDS

The Blues In E

 

TRAVIS PICKING

Travis Time

 

4/4 PATTERNS PARTTHREE 35

Seaside Sounds

 

SINGLE-NOTE PATTERNS IN 3/4

Etude in 3/4

 

DOUBLE STOP & CHORD PATTERNS IN 3/4

Etude in G

 

4/4 PATTERNS PART FOUR

Pedal Power

 

SINGLE-NOTE ALTERNATING PATTERNS

Rainy Day Blues

 

MULTIPLE·NOTE ALTERNATING BASS PATTERNS

Etude in A Mixolydian

 

DOUBLE STOPS ON UPPER STRINGS

Minor Memories

 

SYNCOPATION

E For Elvis

 

PATTERNS IN 6/8 AND 12/8

Study in 6/8

 

The CD that accompanies this book can make learning with the book easier and more enjoyable. The symbol shown above will appear next to every example that is on the CD. Use the CD to help insure that you are capturing the feel of the examples, interpreting the rhythms correctly, and so on. The track numbers below the symbols correspond directly to the examples on that page. Track 1 will help you tune your guitar to this CD.

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FINGERSTYLE COLLECTION, BENNETT. CD TABLATURE

FINGERSTYLE COLLECTION, Bennett. CD TAB.

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This book features twelve of Stephen Bennett’s favorite fingerstyle solos for the six-string acoustic guitar. Perhaps best known for his work with the harp guitar, Stephen shows the same relaxed, sharp-witted spirit he exudes on stage in his insightful performance notes for these inspired guitar solos. Written in standard notation and tablature with a few altered tunings and partial capo indications, this book is recommended for the intermediate to advanced player. The companion performance CD includes all of the selections in the book.

Song Title: Composer/Source:
A Walk on Winkfield Row Stephen Bennett
Adirondack Lullaby Stephen Bennett
Emerald City Stephen Bennet
Funeral March of a Marionette Charles Gounod; Arranged by Stephen Bennett
Good Dog Stephen Bennet
I Knew It Was You Stephen Bennett
Kristina Stephen Bennett
Lady Bird Stephen Bennett
Life's Too Short (To be in a bad mood) Stephen Bennett
My Backyard Stephen Bennett
The Most Beautiful Sky Stephen Bennet and Bill Gurley
Tuesday Blues Stephen Bennett
Wheelbarrow Boogie Stephen Bennett

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FINGERSTYLE EXPLORATIONS, JONAS MOLLBERG Book/CD GUITAR standard notation & TABLATURE mel bay

FINGERSTYLE EXPLORATIONS, JONAS MOLLBERG. CD TABLATURE

The purpose of this material is to create a bridge between pop and rock music and the traditional guitar repertoire. As a guitar instructor, the author has often wished there was material based on classical guitar technique but at the same time sounding more like modern, popular music. He also felt a need for a body of literature which is idiomatic and really makes use of the possibilities of the guitar, so he created these pieces. The pieces frequently use open strings as one way of releasing the magic of the guitar. Another prominent element is the use of arpeggio technique, which provides a continuous and natural flow of music. The book is aimed at guitar students as well as people who take delight in music that is melodious and easy to play but doesn't require too much technical skill to perform. The book is written in standard notation and tablature.

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EMMANUEL TOMMY FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD CD TABLATURE LIBRO METODO CHITARRA FINGERPICKING

EMMANUEL TOMMY, FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD. CD TABLATURE

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The incomparable Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel presents four fingerstyle exercises plus an arrangement of the classic tune Freight Train and two signature compositions- Mister Guitar and Dixie McGuire. This book would serve either as a reference text for one of Tommy's workshops or as a helpful guide to developing fingerstyle guitarists working on their own. All selections are written in notation and tablature for the guitar in standard tuning. A convenient chord chart is provided in the appendix. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.

Intermediate to advanced in difficulty, playing these tunes literally involves the thumbs of both hands! Gaining flexibility and control of your left thumb, you too can play like TE!

 

Dictation Notes with Tommy Emmanuel Getting Started on Fingerstyle ...

GETTING PREPARED

• Make sure your guitar is set up so it is comfortable for you to play.
• Choose a good set of strings
• Get in tune ...
TUNING
• If you have an electronic tuner and you just tune acoustically, that is fine.
• If you plug into a tuner, make sure you turn the microphone off.
• When you have a pick up in your guitar and you plug into the tuner, put the midrange flat out or on the lever,
whichever you understand. That gives the tuner, a real accurate tuner, a sparky signal and you will be able
to get your guitar really and truly in tune.
• It is always a good idea to practice tuning up as well as playing the guitar so you can get use to your guitar
sounding in tune. After a while you will find that you will end up training your own ear into what the sound
of being in tune really is.
NAILS ... ACRYLIC NAILS, NO NAILS OR FINGERPICKS
• What works for you?
• What sound are you going for?
CHOICE OF THUMBPICK
• I use Dunlop medium thumb pick ... not too big, small, thin, or thick ... it is right in the middle, like a
plectrum, but it is wrapped around your thumb.
• Some people use the slick picks, which are thinner.
• It depends on what kind of dynamic or strength you play with. Personally, if I use a slick pick, it would
probably fly across the room after the first bass note.
• I like something that hangs on to my thumb, doesn't make it turn blue on the end and it sticks on your thumb
properly.
• The thumb pick ~hould be pushed back so when you look at your thumb it is covering the end of your nail,
where it meets the flesh, first knuckle joint. When I look down at my thumb, it looks like there is 1/2 inch
of thumb sticking out.
• The thumb has to be independent to the fingers. It is important that you develop the thumb first before you
do anything with the fingers. You have to start training it. This takes time and dedication.
• In the key C. pick C, F, and G to play. Put your fingers down on the place of the guitar where the fret guard
is, down at the mouth. I rest the heal of my palm, the corner of the heal down and I take a little bit of
resonance out of the string to give it that music sound. Leave your fingers down and start with the A string
on the 3rd fret of the C chord. When you can get this slow and steady and use to it, go to C, G, and C.
• It is very important that with each chord change, I start the bass note on the root note. When I am playing
in C, the first note you play is C. Whatever chord you are playing, the first bass note should be the root note,
the note of that chord.
• Practice slowly. Keep the fingers down. Do in any key, E, A, G, B, A ...
• Practice until you can get a good feel, groove going and playing the thumb without the fingers coming up.
Get the thumb going first.
• It is important for you to become good at tapping your foot when you play. Chet use to say, pat your foot. It
will help you with your groove and your time. It will put a bit of bounce and confidence into your playing
and timing. You need to have a good time.
• I always tap my foot on 1 and 3. The only time I don't tap on 1 and 3 is in an extreme situation where I
would playa song where for me to get the right feel on it I would tap on the other beat or where I would tap
like a bass drummer. 
(CONTITUA)
 

Contents

Holding Position

Fingerstyle Notation

Learning to Read Tablature

Dictation Notes with Tommy Emmanuel

Getting Started On Fingerstyle Guitar

Tom's Thumb

Freight Train (simple version)

Freight Train

Mr. Guitar

Dixie McGuire

Thumbpickers Chord Chart  

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EMMANUEL TOMMY ONLY Biskie-DriveTime-Luttrell-Mombasa-padre-Questions-robin-GUITAR TABLATURE LIBRO

EMMANUEL TOMMY, ONLY. GUITAR TABLATURE

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NOTE FOR NOTE TRANSCRIBED SOLOS FROM THE ALBUM BY TOMMY EMMANUEL Certified Guitar Player.

Tommy Emmanuel has electrified audiences across the globe. This book contains note-for-note transcriptions of solos from Emmanuel's album Only in standard notation and tablature. Transcribed by Mark Pritcher.

 

TOMMY EMMANUEL
Hailed by Chet Atkins as "Without a doubt, one of the greatest guitar players on the
planet," Tommy Emmanuel has electrified audiences from Steve Kaufman's diminutive
Palace Theater in Maryville, Tennessee to the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics
in Sydney, Australia. Having concertized throughout much of the civilized world, this
dynamic performer who, in his words "happens to be a pretty good guitarist," made his
way to the fabled competition in Winfield Kansas as a guest artist for the first time in
2000. Shortly before Tommy's performances there, parking lot pickers were said to
have ceasedjamming and moved trance like in droves to a venue designed to hold perhaps 500,
now packed with three times that number ali to hear Tommy Emmanuel play
an acoustic guitar!
Although he has acted as a mentor to a dedicated few young guitarists in his native
Australia, Tommy seems destined to make his mark performing on the world stage. His
impeccable taste, flawless technique, and engaging personality have inspired fans and
critics alike.
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I sincerely hope that you enjoy learning these works of art from Tommy's CD
"QNLY". Many thanks to Tommy for the joy that his music brings usoThe folks at Mel
Bay have been very gracious in providing space for the entire tunes. There is enough
variation in the choruses to make "repeats" impractical and I couldn't bear to leave
anything out. Italian guitarist Daniele Bazzani had worked on these tunes independently
and was kind enough to supply me with his notes early on, and that made my
task easier. Thanks to Brett Wood for help with some "impossible" licks. These tunes vary in difficulty, and please remember that interpreting notes and positions by ear can be subjective at best! Feel free to let me know if you have questions about the music. And very special thanks
to my wife Carol and daughter Katelynn, who allowed me to take on this project. I
Mark Pritcher, Tennessee
 

THOSE WHO WAIT Played with a plectrum (straight pick) 6th string = D; guitar tuned down 1/2 step

"We learn so much in life/ dont we? Ufe is our teacher. Ufe is the school/ and if we're
smart we learn the lessons and learn from each other. I think one of the hardest things
that I've ever had to learn is patience; and trust and faith in believing that things are
going to work out. That's really hard to learn/ to be patient. That's what this song is
about. About truly trusting that if your motives are right/ and everything about you is
heading in the right direction/ then there is no way that you can go wrong. /'
The plectrum is held by the thumb and first finger, and you then use the pick and your
second and third fingers to play the strings. This is sometimes called "hybrid picking".
For a given tune, and a desired effect, the plectrum gives a different sound than the
thumb pick. But if you have never played in this style it can be a challenge. Take it slow
and easy and you will get it! It is not practical to put a plectrum direction on each note,
but you can lay your right hand on the strings, and get a feel for what strings the pick
contacts, and which strings your second and third fingers touch comfortably. If this
style is new to you, go through the tune first using thumb and three fingers, and when
you are familiar with it, you can start on the hybrid technique. It is helpful to study
Tommy's performance videos or DVD's and watch his right hand. Also the fingering is
often critical. In places, fingering can be an individual thing, and you play the way your
left hand feels the best. But most of the time that I have indicated fingering, it is
because it is as Tommy intended it to be played. What seems to be awkward at times,
usually turns out to be brilliant because he has a way of making the melodic ideas flow
together, due in large part to the choice of fingering.
In this tune the tempo is fairly even throughout. It starts with natural harmonics at the
seventh fret, as you lay your first finger across the neck. Tommy uses his left-hand
thumb often to fret the 6th string. This is the case with the opening motif, starting
with the bass in measure 4. For the most part, let notes ring and sustain whenever possible,
even if it is not indicated in the music. Tommy's left hand reach is remarkable, as
you can tell from the five fret stretch in measure 26. Measure 32 has one of the awkward
fingerings on the hammer-on that will take some practice! The left hand thumb
is put to use again for the passage starting in measure 37. In measure 82, there is a
quick natural harmonic on the fifth string, and then you use your left hand to play the
hammer-on on the sixth string.

 

 

- Biskie

- DriveTime

- I've Always Thought Of You

- Luttrell

- Mombasa

- Ol Brother Hubbard

- Padre

- Questions

- Sonce We Met  

- Stay Close to Me

- The Robin

- Those Who Wait

- Timberlake Road

- Train to Dusseldorf. 

 

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EMMANUEL TOMMY SOLO GUITAR STYLE LIBRO CD TABLATURE CHITARRA ACUSTICA FINGERPICKING

EMMANUEL TOMMY, SOLO GUITAR STYLE. Paul Hedman, transcriptions by Peter Pik. Tommy Emmanuel may simply be the greatest guitarist alive. A child prodigy, and possibly Australia's best-kept secret, Tommy is rapidly receiving the worldwide recognition he deserves. A monstrous jazz, rock and blues guitarist, Tommy has a special affinity for solo acoustic guitar in the great tradition of Chet Atkins. So much so, in fact, that Chet Atkins himself has bestowed upon Tommy the coveted title C.G.P. (Certified Guitar Player).

In this book you will receive intensive, up-close lessons in solo guitar: "boom-chic" style, cascading harmonica (a la Lenny Breau), moving bass lines (check out "Lady Madonna"), Travis picking and much more. And for the first time a CD has been included so you can hear Tommy play all of these breathtaking arrangements. Titles include: Amy; Blue Moon; Cascading Harmonics; Countrywide; Day Tripper; Dixie McGuire; Freight Train; Lady Madonna; Limehouse Blues; Since We Met; A Taste of Honey; Tom's Thumb; Trambone; Up From Down Under; Windy and Warm. 204 pages. CD TABLATURE

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Table of Contents
Introduction: What is all this nonsense 9 (14)
about; Author/transcriber/notesetter/layout;
Acknowledgments; Learning the guitar; Aims of
this book; A note from the transcriber Pete
Speak; TE instructional videos: Guitar Talk
and Up Close; How to use this book
Who Is Tommy Emmanuel: The Picker From Down 23 (6)
Under?
A Lesson With Tommy: The Undefeated Boom Chic 29 (12)
Champion 1959
Merle Travis: There's Something In The Coal 41 (10)
Django Reinhardt: The Greatest Jazz Guitar 51 (10)
Player
Chet Atkins, C. G. P: Certified Guitar 61 (18)
Player---references for: open string runs;
hammer-ons; pull-offs; the superlick;
three-finger rolls; harmonics
Boom Chic Fingerstyle Guitar; 79 (18)
Tom's Thumb 84 (2)
Freight Train 86 (1)
Trambone 87 (1)
Windy and Warm 88 (5)
Limehouse Blues 93 (4)
Jerry Reed: The Kid/Songwriter 97 (8)
Lenny Breau: The Genius Of Our Time/Flirting 105(6)
With The Impossible
Tommy Songs 111(26)
Countrywide 115(5)
Dixie McGuire 120(6)
Amy 126(4)
Since We Met 130(7)
Cascading (Artificial) Harmonics 137(16)
Up From Down Under 145(8)
Moving Bass Lines 153(20)
A Taste of Honey 158(1)
Blue Moon 159(5)
Day Tripper/Lady Madonna 164(9)
TE Unplugged: Sources For Tommy's Live 173(4)
Acoustic Set
Tommy Emmanuel Website (including fan Club). 177(6)
Tommy Emmanuel Note-For-Note Website. Chet
Atkins Appreciation Society (C.A.A.S.)
Reference Section: How to play like books, 183
articles, LP/CD list, and videos on Tommy
Emmanuel, Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt,
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Lenny Breau;
Howling Hedman's Suggested Further Reading
and Listening; distributors and publishers:
photo credits; quotations featured in this
Book. Notation and Tablature explanation

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRISH AND AMERICAN FIDDLE TUNES FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. Duck Baker. CD TABLATURE

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRISH AND AMERICAN FIDDLE TUNES FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. D. Baker. CD TAB.

Product Description:
This volume is intended as a folio of arrangements from the repertoire of a working musician. As such, there is only a minimum of discussion about the technical aspects of playing. Students who have already dealt with the American style called fingerpicking or fingerstyle guitar, which is quite distinct from other kinds of guitar playing, will be at an advantage. The easiest arrangements here are early intermediate level, while the other end of the scale includes pieces that may challenge even a professional. Tunes within each section are presented generally in order of difficulty. The bulk of the tunes presented are fiddle tunes, with a couple of banjo tunes and several songs as well as tunes originally played on other instruments such as harp, pipes, or accordion. There are even a small number composed for the guitar. For the most part, differences in approach among the tunes here are unrelated to the instrumental sources. All the tunes are presented in notation and tablature.

Format: Book/CD Set
152 PAGES

INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IRISH TUNES

Airs

The South Wind
The Flowers of Belfast
The Blackbird and the Thrush
John O'Dwyer of the Glen
Miss Forbes' Farewell
Sergeant Early's Dream
Oliver Goldsmith's Lament

Miscellaneous

No Love
Spanish Cloak
Child of My Heart
The Dodder Bank
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
Planxty Sweeney
The Galtee Hunt

Jigs

Banish Misfortune
Market Girls
Catholic Bill's
Little Brown Jug
Tasha's Cakes
Joy of My Life
The Banks of Lough Gowna
The Rakes of Waterloo
My Darling Asleep
Haste to the Wedding
Huggerth the Puss
The Oak and the Willow
The Tar Road to Sligo

Slip Jigs

The Butterfly
The Exile's Jig
Top It Off
Paddy Now Won't You Be Easy

Hornpipes

The Boys of Blue Hill
The Plains of Boyle
Ramble Over Stennis
My Heart Belongs to Jenny
Galway Bay
The Humors of Tullycreen

Reels

Captain Rock
The Maids of Mitchelstown
Roll Her in the Rushes
The Trip to Durrow
The Witch of the Glen
The Tailor's Thimble
The Gower
Poll Ha'penny
Rakish Paddy

AMERICAN TUNES

Old World Connections

Fisher's Hornpipe
The Keel Row
Boyne Water
Hop High Ladies
The Cuckoo's Nest
The Drunken Wagoner
Little Beggar Man
Polly Put the Kettle On

Minstrels and Ragtime

Boatman
Angelina Baker
Peacock Rag
Whistling Rufus
Wink the Other Eye
Buffalo Gals
Ragtime Annie

Old Time

Over the Waterfall
Tucker's Barn
Robinson County
Jeff Davis
Sandy River Belle
Pappy Taylor's Hornpipe
Same Time Today

Bluegrass

Johnny the Blacksmith
The Road to Richmond
June Apple
Blackberry Blossom
Salt Creek

DISCOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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FAHEY JOHN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR 3CD TABLATURE LIBRO Indian Pacific Railroad Blues

FAHEY JOHN, AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR. In Christ There Is No East Or West -Take A Look At That Baby -Some Summer Day -Indian Pacific Railroad Blues -The Last Steam Engine Train -When The Springtime Comes Again -The Approaching Of The Disco Void. SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH 3CD & GUITAR TABLATURE. 

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... in roots music as a living, breathing thing rather than a museum piece. Industrial guitar grind dominates City Of Refuge, bathyspherelike booms echo through Womblife. White gamelan sounds reverberate through The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones. Such experimentation might have isolated him from his peers through most of the last 30 years, but in the 90s he has discovered an affinity with the ever expanding global underground communitY. "I didn't know there was an alternative movement going," Fahey admits, "so I just kept trying to create similar things to the old. I was aware that there had been an experimental movement in the 60s with John Cage and his followers, but thought they had all gone. Then some friends introduced me to Sonic Youth. Until then I didn't know what was going on.
"As defined by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, this "alternative movement" was out of a desire for music resistant to "commodification", be it noise, lo-fi, 20th century experimental music and improv, or global and rediscovered American roots musics like bluegrass, folk and blues.
John Fahey's work feeds the new underground spirit on a number of counts, while Revenant - the label Fahey co-owns with his manager, the Nashville-based attorney Dean Blackwood - alerts new audiences to a hidden history of American music, retrieved from the tiny regional labels scattered across its rural hinterlands.
The surprising success of the six CD box set reissue of rogue archivist Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music (for which Fahey supplied award-winning sleevenotes) attests to a desire for music that emerges from and addresses real experiences rather than a marketing man's business plan. The Revenant archive releases, meanwhile, vividly recast the past not as nostalgia but as American Primitive or Raw Music. "It was Dean's idea to do that," Fahey modestly states, "but I provided most of the information, together with this collector called Gayle Dean Wardlow. Now that the American Primitive thing is catching on we'll do more. People love the title" The range of his enthusiasms combined with the breadth of his own music make Fahey a vital link connecting today's underground with a century of raw and experimental musics. For his part, he is only too pleased to be working within his newly adopted alternative music 'community'. His instant conversion has already produced one of its finest works in The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones, which teamed John with the Massachusetts post-rockers Cui De Sac, led by Glenn Jones. The title refers obliquely to the project's unpromising start as a "retro lounge music" session - quickly aborted - which Jones's sleeve notes describe as being akin to taking part In some "hellish sensory deprivation experiment". Was working with Fahey really that bad?
The guitarist chuckles mischievously: "Glenn told me after the Epiphany that he had got on a power trip. It had happened to him before, only he hadn't realized it. He did things like not letting me meet the other members of the band until the recording sessions, all kinds of tricks, so that he could remain ultimate dictator of Cui De Sac and the project. But that's an old battle, Glenn's a friend of mine and it came out OK."

AMERICAN PSYCHO
When Fahey was venting his disgust for his 60s recordings earlier on, he went at them with a ferocity out of all proportion to the quality of music. His negative attitude hinted that something deeper was going down than a mature reappraisal of his youthful endeavours. Eventually, his hostility relents, and the negativity lets up long enough to reveal the pain at its source.
"Mainly it's a parental situation:' Fahey explains, washing down more popcorn with gulps of sweet iced tea. "I was writing these things as an escape, as a possible way to make money. The sentiments expressed come out of a messed up situation. I was creating for myself an imaginary, beautiful world and pretending that I lived there, but I didn't feel beautiful. I was mad but I wasn't aware of it. I was also very sad, afraid and lonely. By presenting this so-called beautiful facade I looked good to myself and my audience.
"This went on for years," he continues. "I always tried to put a peaceful element into the music, but it was false because I was not at peace. I didn't know what 1was doing and felt pretty phony. I didn't understand any of this until I had psychoanalysis."
Entering psychoanalysis in the mid-80s helped him exorcise the past. "Before psychoanalysis:' Fahey recalls, "I used to accidentally get so high on prescription drugs and booze that, sometimes, I wouldn't show up for a show. Or I'd be there and not know it. For a while I thought 1was going insane. People would tell me I did these crazy things, but I didn't attribute it to the Quaaludes I was taking so that the memories of my father abusing me as a child wouldn't come back."
In taking Fahey back to the source of his traumas psychoanalysis invested the innocent symbols he had carried over from his childhood with sinister new meanings. Out of a boy's fascination with turtles and tortoises, he had elaborated a personal mythology based on the reptiles, using them as a repeat motif anchoring his art and discography in his childhood.
Under analysis he recalled how he burst out screaming when he first saw a turtle. "When I was about four or five years old I saw what I thought was a penis walking across the front lawn:' he shudders. "It was just a box turtle, but it kind of upset me ..."
Analysis related the encounter to the memory of being sexually molested by his father. "The obsession comes from the psychic meaning of turtles, reptiles and amphibians. In dreams they symbolize genitalia. That's why I went to a psychoanalyst because I had all these repressed memories." The unifying visual motif of his personal mythology and extensive discography turned out to be the corrupting agent of their potential destruction all alone. Remarkably, coming to terms with the full horror of such a revelation marked the beginning of Fahey's 90s regeneration.

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
John Fahey was born on 28 February 1939 and spent most of his childhood in Takoma Park, Maryland, a small town on the outskirts of Washington DC. His early musical training was at once formal and frustrating. His parents occasionally took him to see 50s bluegrass stars like The Stanley Brothers, whose early recordings Fahey would later reissue on Revenant. But though he grew up with Country & Western and bluegrass, his first instrument was a clarinet. He abandoned it at 14 when he bought his first guitar, a $17 Sears And Roebuck special, with money earned from his newspaper round. After teaching himself to pick his way through the Eddy Arnold songbook, the young, lonely and slightly crazy guitar player decided it was time to start writing his own material. The year was 1954, and Elvis Presley was just beginning to make waves in America. If the young Fahey readily embraced the ...

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