I Remember Blind Joe Death

I Remember Blind Joe Death Artist: John Fahey
Label: Varrick
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 011671002828
EAN: 0011671002828
ASIN: B0000003PA


Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Listmania:

  1. music that moves me

Tracks:

  1. The Evening Mysteries of Ferry Street
  2. You'll Find Her Name Written There
  3. The Minutes Seem Like Hours, The Hours Seem Like Days
  4. Are You From Dixie?
  5. A Minor Blues
  6. Steel Guitar Rag
  7. Nightmar/Summertime
  8. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  9. Unknown Tango
  10. Improv in E Minor
  11. Lava On Waikiki
  12. Gaucho

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars moments of rough beauty.......2007-01-30

it's fairly disingenuous to say that john fahey shouldn't have recorded this because he was sick. furthermore, to say fahey himself wrote this album off isn't entirely relevant, since he didn't look back to his early takoma lp's for inspiration later in life, particularly when he was recording his 'red cross' and 'womblife' records. to say this isn't as good as the earlier 'blind joe death' is to misunderstand the essence of fahey's musical evolution. at this stage in his life, he was fighting off the oft-misunderstood (yet nevertheless debilitating) epstein-barr virus. perhaps some reviewers would rather he did not record this album, but it is a window on the artist during a particularly rough period in his life. [it's like saying "maybe richard and linda thompson shouldn't have recorded that album while their relationship disintegrated around them."] yes, the pace is slower, the tone is darker, but uninspired? hardly.

1 out of 5 stars Don't Record Things When You're Ill.......2003-04-04

Fahey explained this disaster by saying that he had a virus when it was recorded and during the playback. It's a very poor album, full of bum notes and uninspiring playing. There's plenty of potentially good material, but it's really an object lesson against recording things when you're ill. His producer should have called on him to re-record it when he was better. It's too late now, of course.

1 out of 5 stars Bad.......2003-01-11

John was quite ill when he made this record, and it shows. There's no inspiration, and no syncopation. Everything is tired, flat, listless, dull. You'll never find a more apt title on anyone's album than "Minutes Seem Like Hours, the Hours Seem Like Days". So this is for completists only. As the album title itself says "I Remember 'Blind Joe Death'" - now THAT was a great album!

3 out of 5 stars A return to the old days.......2000-07-20

John Fahey is a very interesting composer of solo guitar music for the most part. This album is all instrumental, all solo guitar. Quite interesting and harkens back to his early days and his first recording, The Legend of Blind Joe Death, a name he made up for himself. It is less melodic than the 60s recordings, but still very Fahey-esque. I am giving this one three stars only because the first five albums all seem to deserve five stars. Probably the best place to start with Fahey is the Kottke/Lang/Fahey record or any of the first three albums. The later records are more mature and more eclectic. He is just a great musician and one of a kind. See reviews of his other albums for more insight. I just did not find this album as moving as the early works, America (!) or God, Time & Casuality, but still recommended!

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