John Fahey - Lion
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2:08 he has wasp stings for fingertips, you can't beat that.
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I totally forgot about this tune. I used to listen to his original recording of it in the early 70s.
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This guy just had more imagination than anybody else.
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i typed lion so i could find something about the new mac lion os, but this is cool too so no complaining
6 months ago 6
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@1blastman I arrived by the opposite route, up here in Montréal: I randomly picked up Fahey's Live in Tasmania second-hand not long after it came out in '80ish; and was entranced, even though most of what I was listening to then was punk & reggae. I didn't come across James Booker 'til much later, when I equally randomly won a copy of The Return of the Bayou Maharajah after I pledged some bucks to a local community station's blues show
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@scratchy45 I'm sure some music scholar could do a nice paper on the comparative qualities of musical genius that both possessed. Living in New Orleans, Booker's music comes by us easily. I rarely hear Fahey down here, on a whim, I brought the Fahey, Kottke, Peter Lang lp and was blown away by Fahey's emotional touch on guitar. I still swell up whenever I listen to his version of "In Christ there is no east or west."
The Yellow Princess album is also a favorite. RIP John and JCBIII
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@1blastman Excellent parallel! It had never occurred to me, but it's spot-on.
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for you "technicians" out there-Fahey was a true original who made his guitar sing as an extension of himself, with heart and soul-something you'll never understand I suppose -that's why I listen to him instead of you
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Fahey brings to the guitar what James Booker brought to the piano. If you never heard Booker - give him a look on youtube.
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yer so right youtube is the best thing to happen to music in a long time.The radio is dead thanks to clear channel- MTV was good for the first 5 years then the boys with fat cigars killed that too-lets hope they never figure out how to get there grubby hand on youtube LOL
urheadonastick 3 years ago 39
YouTube is truly wonderful for music.
GolumTR 4 years ago 26