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’s death from medical complications earlier this year was a shock to many of his loyal listeners, but in the context of the commercial music world his passing went largely unnoticed. A prime ...

On this week's excellent episode of Lost Notes, KCRW Producer Carla Green explores the intriguing and occasionally cruel realm of artistic genius. The emotional dark waters where the roles of artist, ...

Matt Ward isn’t the sort of music fan who cares to know much about the life of a musician in whom he has an interest. Her drug or alcohol problems, his poverty, her childhood traumas, his medical ...

Last year Fantasy Records released The Best of John Fahey Vol. 2: 1963-1983, positioning it as an overdue follow-up to a Fahey best-of from 1977. Fahey, the founding father of the “American primitive” ...

The author, with his Fahey collection. Krist Novoselic is a regular contributor to Reveb and writes a column about music and politics for the Daily Weekly.It was in 1985 when I first heard the guitar ...

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