American Primitive Guitar

This site is designed and created by Taylor W. Rushing for his Spring quarter Music Appreciation class at Tacoma Community College.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The Roots of John Fahey

http://grapewrath.blogspot.com/2008/04/roots-of-john-fahey.html

This page give a complete explanation of the influences that created American Primitive guitar. It showcases the obvious blues influences as well as the Indian Ragas, experimental songs, mountain ballads and bluegrass runs which made Fahey and his prodigies so tuneful and brilliant. All three discs of the compilation are available for legal download (as they are for educational purposes and not for monetary benefit). This also includes a really neat picture of Fahey with Delta blues demigod Son House (the man who allegedly taught Robert Johnson to play the slide). If anyone wants to look deeper into American Primitive Guitar, this is the site to research.

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