John Fahey
Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (5CD Box)
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Subtitled: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965. More than 10 years in the making, this box set features the earliest recordings and the first book ever written about one of the most influential guitarists from the 1960s and '70s, John Fahey. The five CDs feature 115 tracks, most of which are available on CD for the first time. The audio was remastered from Joe Bussard's reel-to-reel tapes to achieve pristine sound quality. As for the accompanying book, the list of scholars who contributed essays includes Eddie Dean, Claudio Guerrierri, Glenn Jones, Malcolm Kirton, Mike Stewart and John's childhood friend R. Anthony Lee. Byron Coley contributed a poem about John, and Douglas Blazek's 1967 interview with Fahey is published for the first time.
Released 10 years after John Fahey's death, this set puts one of the final puzzle pieces of Fahey's career in place. Everyone can now hear where this guitar legend got his start -- a smoky basement in Frederick, Maryland. Co-produced by Dean Blackwood of Revenant, Glenn Jones, and Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital, this set is released with the support of Joe Bussard and the John Fahey Estate. The set is dedicated to John's mother, Jane C. Hayes and the late musician Jack Rose. Includes a 88-page hardcover book with 5 CDs in a separate gatefold portfolio -- all housed in a deluxe slipcase. Book measurements: 12 x 12 x 1.25 inches.
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As with all histories, context and an appreciation for the times are essential. In 1958, when the earliest of these recordings were made there were probably no more than a handful of reissues of pre-war country blues 78s available on record in the United States. The long-playing 33 1/3 record was, itself, only a recent invention. Today, with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pre-war blues and hillbilly reissues available and in print, when it's possible to walk into any halfway decent record store (to the extent record stores, halfway decent or otherwise, still exist) and find the complete recordings of Charley Patton or Blind Willie Johnson, it may be difficult to comprehend just how obscure and how otherworldly this music once was. - Glenn Jones, from the Introduction to Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You
Format
88 page book with 5 CDs - 115 tracks, most available on CD for the first time
A co-production between Dust-to-Digital and Revenant
Release notes
Issued in a 12" x 12" solid cardboard box containing an 88-page hardback book and separate cardboard gatefold with the CDs in pockets.
| No. 1 [1958] | |||
| 1-1 | Interview: John Fahey On Fonotone Records And Joe Bussard | ||
| 1-2 | Franklin Blues | ||
| 1-3 | Smoketown Strut | ||
| 1-4 | Steel Guitar Rag | ||
| 1-5 | Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues | ||
| 1-6 | Buck Dancer’s Choice (1) | ||
| 1-7 | Medley: Pretty Polly / Shortnin’ Bread | ||
| 1-8 | Barbara Namkin Blues | ||
| 1-9 | In Christ There Is No East Or West | ||
| 1-10 | Stak 'O Lee Blues [Louis Collins] | ||
| 1-11 | The Transcendental Waterfall (1) | ||
| 1-12 | John Henry (1) | ||
| 1-13 | Over The Hill Blues (1) | ||
| 1-14 | St. Louis Blues | ||
| 1-15 | On Doing An Evil Deed Blues | ||
| 1-16 | Reinumeration Blues [Brenda's Blues (1)] | ||
| 1-17 | The Transcendental Waterfall (2) | ||
| 1-18 | Mississippi Boweavil Blues | ||
| 1-19 | Green River Blues | ||
| 1-20 | Over The Hill Blues (2) | ||
| 1-21 | Libba’s Rag | ||
| 1-22 | Chris’s Rag | ||
| No. 2 [1958-1960] | |||
| 2-1 | St. Louis Tickle | ||
| 2-2 | Pat Sullivan’s Blues | ||
| 2-3 | Blind Blues [A/K/A Martin’s Esso Blues] | ||
| 2-4 | Poor Boy Blues | ||
| 2-5 | Long Time Town Blues | ||
| 2-6 | Gulf Port Island Blues | ||
| 2-7 | Blind Thomas Blues Part 1 | ||
| 2-8 | Blind Thomas Blues Part 2 | ||
| 2-9 | New Newport News Blues #2 | ||
| 2-10 | Wanda Russell’s Blues | ||
| 2-11 | Going Away To Leave You Blues | ||
| 2-12 | Lay My Burden Down | ||
| 2-13 | Hill High Blues | ||
| 2-14 | John Henry (2) | ||
| 2-15 | Paint Brush Blues | ||
| 2-16 | Blind Thomas Blues Part 3 | ||
| 2-17 | Blind Thomas Blues Part 4 | ||
| 2-18 | You Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond | ||
| 2-19 | Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed | ||
| 2-20 | Banty Rooster Blues | ||
| 2-21 | Tom Rushen Blues | ||
| No. 3 [1960-1961] | |||
| 3-1 | Yallaboosha River Blues | ||
| 3-2 | You Gonna Miss Me | ||
| 3-3 | Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 1 | ||
| 3-4 | Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 2 | ||
| 3-5 | Zekiah Swamp Blues | ||
| 3-6 | Nobody’s Business | ||
| 3-7 | Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 1 | ||
| 3-8 | Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 2 | ||
| 3-9 | You Better Get Right So God Can Use You | ||
| 3-10 | Weissman Blues | ||
| 3-11 | Dasein River Blues | ||
| 3-12 | Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 1 | ||
| 3-13 | Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 2 | ||
| 3-14 | Smoky Ordinary Blues (1) [Dance Of The Inhabitants (1)] | ||
| 3-15 | I Shall Not Be Moved | ||
| 3-16 | Old Country Rock | ||
| 3-17 | Little Hat Blues | ||
| 3-18 | Guitar Solo Title Unknown (1) [Revelation On The Banks Of The Pawtuxent (1)] | ||
| 3-19 | Guitar Solo Title Unknown (2) [Night Train To Valhalla (1)] | ||
| 3-20 | Some Summer Day (2) | ||
| 3-21 | The Langley Two-Step | ||
| 3-22 | Dream Of The Origin Of The French Broad River | ||
| No. 4 [1962] | |||
| 4-1 | Saint John’s Hornpipe | ||
| 4-2 | Sail Away Ladies | ||
| 4-3 | Dreaming Under The B & O Trestle | ||
| 4-4 | 900 Miles | ||
| 4-5 | Prince George’s Dance | ||
| 4-6 | Improvisation For Flute And Guitar | ||
| 4-7 | Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (1) [Brenda’s Blues (2)] | ||
| 4-8 | Brenda’s Blues (3) | ||
| 4-9 | Buck Dancer’s Choice (2) | ||
| 4-10 | Night Train To Valhalla (2) | ||
| 4-11 | In The Pines | ||
| 4-12 | Pretty Polly | ||
| 4-13 | Take This Hammer | ||
| 4-14 | Yazoo Basin Blues | ||
| 4-15 | Stomping Tonight On The (Old) Pennsylvania / Alabama Border | ||
| 4-16 | Smoky Ordinary Blues (2) [Dance Of The Inhabitants (2)] | ||
| 4-17 | Revelation On The Banks Of The Pawtuxent (2) | ||
| 4-18 | Bean Vine Blues [Pea Vine Blues] | ||
| 4-19 | Green Blues | ||
| 4-20 | Stone Pony | ||
| No. 5 [1962-1965] | |||
| 5-1 | Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (2) [Brenda’s Blues (4)] | ||
| 5-2 | Days Have Gone By | ||
| 5-3 | Some Summer Day (2) | ||
| 5-4 | Texas & Pacific Blues [My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It] | ||
| 5-5 | John Henry Blues | ||
| 5-6 | Brenda’s Blues (5) | ||
| 5-7 | St. Patrick’s Hymn | ||
| 5-8 | Bicycle Built For Two | ||
| 5-9 | The Blues You Saved For Me | ||
| 5-10 | House Carpenter | ||
| 5-11 | How Long (1) | ||
| 5-12 | The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith, California | ||
| 5-13 | You Take The E Train [The Last Steam Engine Train] | ||
| 5-14 | I Sing A Song Of The Saints Of God | ||
| 5-15 | How Long (2) | ||
| 5-16 | O Jesus I Have Promised (1) | ||
| 5-17 | Untitled (1) | ||
| 5-18 | Medley: Untitled (2) / O Jesus I Have Promised (2) | ||
| 5-19 | I Am A Rake And Rambling Boy | ||
| 5-20 | Medley: Goodbye Old Paint (1) / Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies | ||
| 5-21 | Goodbye Old Paint (2) | ||
| 5-22 | Simple Gifts | ||
| 5-23 | Untitled (3) | ||
| 5-24 | Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie | ||
| 5-25 | Goodbye Old Paint (3) | ||
| 5-26 | Western Medley | ||
| 5-27 | Durgan Park | ||
| 5-28 | The Bitter Lemon | ||
| 5-29 | Old Southern Medley (Fragment) | ||
| 5-30 | Bottleneck Blues | ||
- Susan Archie
- Design
- Christopher Fairchild
- Layout
- Byron Coley
- Liner Notes
- Douglas Blazek
- Liner Notes
- Matthew Azevedo
- Mastered By, Transferred By [Transfers By]
- Dean Blackwood
- Producer
- Glenn Jones
- Producer
- Steven Lance Ledbetter
- Producer
- Jack Towers
- Transferred By [Transfers By]
- Scott Colburn
- Transferred By [Transfers By]
