# John Fahey
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John Aloysius Fahey ( FAY-hee; February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres.
Transmissions :: Dust-to-Digital
Since 1999, Atlanta label Dust-to-Digital has created lavish boxsets, books, and collections of gospel, folk, blues, field recordings, and other sounds sourced from deep global archives.
Led by April and Lance Ledbetter, the label has been responsible for works like Goodbye, Babylon, a landmark 2…
Tashi Dorji: The Radical Openness of Improvisation
In the early 2010s self-taught guitarist Tashi Dorji was recording improvised guitar explorations in his home near Asheville, North Carolina. These self-released outings drew on his unique mix of musical influences from the Buddhist music of his childhood in Bhutan to the Western music he discovere…
Ep. #1130: Chat Pile
Ray B. from Chat Pile is here to discuss their raging new album Who Loves the Sun, climate change denial and the links between socio-political apathy and fear, despondency about falling literacy rates and our addictive dependence on our telephones, missing cultural community hubs like video stores …
Episode 696: Transmusic Airwaves Collaborative
Time for a big fresh bite of unconventional freeform radio. Welcome to Transmusic Airwaves with host Mark Orlandi. Tracks from 2024 and 2025 comprise about a third of today's show - Farm Fresh Airwaves! Honeycrisp optional, cider still.Thank you for staying connected - Yaki Da!Set 11) Dialect - New…
Mark DePace on Community & Creativity
Mark DePace is Chief Creative Officer and a partner at Ghost Robot, a creative production studio in Brooklyn, NY, which he joined in 2005. He is the founder of Friendly City Creative Club, an advertising agency and retail space in Hudson, NY, and co-owner of Hudson Ferry Co. He is a visiting profe…
Episode 7.25 /// Featuring Black Brunswicker and David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi
I’ve got some outstanding featured artists in the lineup for today’s program — in a word: sublime. Black Brunswicker is back with a new album on Nettwerk Music Group that is a delightful tribute to guitarist John Fahey in her album “Dreams of A Sunflower River”; and later in the program David Corde…
Episode 65 Great Guitarists You Don't Hear Much & #6 Best-Selling LP
Episode 65 Great Guitarists You Don't Hear Much & #6 Best-Selling LP
Progressive rock radio stations of the 60s, especially, exposed many great and long-lasting tunes and LPs that would endure more than a half century. I try to play as many as come from my personal collection and memory, and there …
Transmissions :: Matt Baldwin
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, guitarist and psychotherapist Matt Baldwin, who is here to teach you How To Play Guitar.
OK, not exactly. But Baldwin is the author of How To Play Guitar, a series of zines that have been collected into a handsome book editio…
Did the atom bomb need to be dropped on Japan? Palestine's 100 year war. Australia's traitors and spies.
Roger Pulvers asks if it was necessary to use atomic bombs to end the war — or was Japan already beaten? Rashid Khalidi observes a new era in the Palestinian struggle and explains why its focus is no longer just on a two-state solution. Former intelligence officer John Fahey discusses Australia's t…
Episode 3: Takoma Records in the 1960s
The history of Takoma records from the early recordings of John Fahey to Robbie Basho, to Bukka White as well as Leo Kottke and Craig Leon. Playlist: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19642812/Threading-The-Needle
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