Christmas Guitar, Vol. 1

Christmas Guitar, Vol. 1 Artist: John Fahey
Label: Varrick / Pgd
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 011671000244
EAN: 0011671000244
ASIN: B00000ADYM


Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

  1. Joy to the World
  2. What Child Is This?
  3. Medley: Hark the Herald Angels Sing/O Come All Ye Faithful
  4. Auld Lang Syne
  5. Bells of Saint Mary's
  6. Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Rejoice
  7. We Three Kings of Orient Are
  8. Away in a Manger, Pt. 1
  9. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy
  10. First Noel
  11. Good King Wenceslas
  12. Of the Father's Love Begotten
  13. Away in a Manger, Pt. 2
  14. In the Bleak Midwinter
  15. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  16. Medley: Jesus, Won't You Come by Here/Go Tell It on the Mountain
  17. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
  18. Silent Night

Similar Items:

  1. The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album
  2. Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year's
  3. The John Fahey Christmas Album
  4. Old Fashioned Love
  5. The Best of John Fahey, Vol. 2: 1964-1983

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Pleasant but far from amazing.......2006-01-04

John Fahey was a major guitarist, both for his own work and for his influence on Leo Kottke, among others. But he also was a bit too eager to release (or in the case of this CD, re-re-release) material. This is nice background music, but as a demonstration of his technique or fire, well, nope.

I have a huge collection of Christmas music, and the different sounds fill different needs. Some are stirring and vibrant (think Christmas Cantata), some, like Odetta, dig deep and touch strong emotions, some are cheerfully goofy and nostalgic, like Bing or Dean. But this is just a little too whitebread, the kind of thing that you barely notice, just hums along amiably and suddenly disappears...Uh, oh, need another CD.

Traditional tunes, traditional arrangments, traditonal playing. Nice enough, but that's all.

4 out of 5 stars Good, but a renaming........2003-12-02

John Fahey's work, both for Christmas and for other music should receive a wider hearing, but this CD is essentially, except for two versions of Away in a Manger, a re-recording of The New Possibility. Those who have that CD should take heed before they purchase what they might think is an entirely different CD. It is also available with a different CD cover under a slightly different listing.

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