[atari 2600]

Hi all,

Found out about this a few days ago, and thought I'd drop in since there's a more than a few Fahey enthusiasts here

In Search of Blind Joe Death is finally out @JohnFaheyFilm
It's been screened at a few film festivals last year and this year
and is now playing on one screen
at Cinema Village, NYC showing through tomorrow night, August 22
Director James Cullingham did the Q&A thing last weekend at the showings
http://www.johnfaheyfilm.com/

The lead-in featurette being shown is Approximately Nels Cline by Steven Okazaki

NYT review
http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/08/16...ait.html?_r=1&

Hopefully things are gearing up for an actual art house run, but from the calendar schedule, it looks to be mainly film fests; (maybe much of this info has been already posted)

recent interview with director James Cunningham on WNYC's Leonard Lopate show
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/201...ind-joe-death/

There was another documentary film in the works that seems to be no longer in production

active dl links at these pages
John Fahey On Air, Recorded live in 1978 for Radio Bremen in Germany
http://pooftersforthwyoming.blogspot...-air-2005.html

John Fahey Live at Mr. Brown's Columbus, OH 1978
http://danbachblog.blogspot.com/2013...mr-browns.html

John Fahey Double 78-RPM record (Perfect, 1996)
http://fm-shades.blogspot.com/2009/0...d-perfect.html

John Fahey Red Cross (Revenant, 2003)
http://contrastandcompare.blogspot.c...01/hi-all.html

this other one may have been linked to before (delta-slider is a fairly well-known blog, at least amongst those so inclined)
John Fahey University of Washington, Seattle 1973
http://delta-slider.blogspot.com/201...ashington.html

previously
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...ighlight=fahey


-a

[hirsute_biped]

Saw this at a small screening in LA a while back, Glenn Jones played and talked on a panel discussion with the filmakers. I am doing some digging into some unreleased archived Fahey material and coordinating with Glenn, may or may not see the light of day. Met one of Fahey's ex-wives at the film, she had some funny stories. Good film, could have gone deeper, but good for what it is. Saw this book on amazon, looks promising and cheap but I havn't bought it yet:

http://www.amazon.com/The-John-Fahey...fahey+handbook

There is at least one more significant Fahey book coming, in addition to the second volume of this one, according to Glenn.

Thanks for those links, I didn't have the Mr. Browns, and that gig is kind of ledg....

[atari 2600]

Wow, Glenn Jones! That all sounds really cool. I bet Thurston would want to take part. I read (source (obviously) uncited and at his moment unknown) that Fahey himself regarded Sonic Youth highly and deemed them and the like the true inheritors of the thing he sort of started or helped to start. Heard also about some murmurings of another Fahey tribute album too, which only makes sense considering his remarkable influence and depth.

The Handbook vol 1 looks essential (and implies there'll at least be one more). Fahey's How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life and his essays and other writings are so stimulating too. I really do enjoy the minutiae of the song by song thing though. The inimitable Chris O’Leary writes the pushing ahead of the dame blog at http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com about each and every known Bowie recording; the entries are to comprise the bulk of a two-book deal to be published soon. It's rather great stuff. Years ago someone started a blog on every R.E.M. song at http://popsongs.wordpress.com/ that remains rather unfinished. At any rate, 33 1/3 books and that kind of thing aside, it's my personal belief that these works are chiefly inspired by Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, the superlative 1994 book by Ian MacDonald.

That Mr. Brown's audience recording show is a time capsule (one can tell it'll be just that by the description at the landing page at the blog). Still, you'd probably agree that the On Air fm soundboard performance is the one to listen to out of all of those (atsonicpark pointed me that way years ago--thank you, atsonicpark). It's so lovely to hear him in top form. The improvisational elements on "Red Pony" and "Dance of the Inhabitants...Phil14" are, to me, the absolute highlights.