John Fahey
Volume 2 / Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes
Label4 Men With BeardsGenreFolk & Traditional
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2016 remastered edition, blue color vinyl edition of 500 copies. "Death Chants is John Fahey's second album, following the brilliantly apocryphal Blind Joe Death. As massive as that earlier work was, it represented only a tentative first step towards the fields of hodologic splendor that our hero would go on to create. Death Chants represents a much more fully realized syncretism of the modernist and primitive poles between which John Fahey wobbled. It is also the first album he deigned to release entirely under his own name and the one with which he truly began to cast a shadow across the blandly-lit landscape of the world's subconscious."
Release notes
Originally released by Takoma Records (C-1003) in 1964. Limited edition of 500 on Blue vinyl. Includes insert.
| A1 | Sunflower River Blues | ||
| A2 | When The Springtime Comes Again | ||
| A3 | Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border | ||
| A4 | Some Summer Day | ||
| A5 | On The Beach At Waikiki | ||
| A6 | Spanish Dance | ||
| B1 | John Henry Variations | ||
| B2 | The Downfall Of The Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill | ||
| B3 | Take A Look At That Baby | ||
| B4 | Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV | ||
| B5 | America | ||
| B6 | Episcopal Hymn |
- John Fahey
- Guitar
- Ed Denson
- Producer
