John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Fahey had been hospitalized since last ...

John Fahey has created a unique body of guitar compositions and arrangements as well as a distinct approach to fingerstyle guitar He broke fresh ground in recording guitar music that drew from such ...

Acoustic guitarist John Fahey was impossible to classify. His eclectic music included traditional-sounding folk pieces, Indian ragas, blues, and unpredictable modern works, not fitting securely into ...

John Fahey, godfather of what came to be known as "American Primitive" guitar playing, passed away two weeks ago in Salem, Ore., at the age of 61. He died on Feb. 22 after undergoing open-heart ...

John Fahey was “a provocateur in the Romantic mode,” says a friend of the late seminal guitarist in the engrossing film “In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey.” “I live for immersion,” ...

John Fahey was an acoustic guitar master, a musician’s musician, and a player who transcended blues and folk styles to create his own “American Primitive” instrumental mastery. However, Fahey also was ...

There's a restless quality to Glenn Jones' music that starts with the guitarist himself. Jones doesn't just write songs; he makes up a new way of tuning the guitar for each one. "For me, inventing a ...

bucolic instrumental “Sligo River Blues” who visit the guitarist’s native Montgomery County today may be surprised to find the title waterway (actually Sligo Creek) is a suburban rivulet surrounded by ...

February 24, 2017 • Steve Gunn, Daniel Bachman, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Alcorn and Chris Corsano all appear on this double-album tribute to Bruce Langhorne's secretly influential 1971 soundtrack for The ...