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John Fahey: The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death (Transatlantic TRA 173)

uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 16 November 1968

WHAT IS A guitarist's guitarist? Listen to John Fahey on The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death to find out. Originally recorded back in the early Sixties, this album of instrumentals, on the American independent Steamboat label, was once a bit folk underground which has thankfully been raised from the dead, so to speak, by Nat Joseph.

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