John Fahey

john fahey was an acoustic guitar player. he is credited with starting a genre 1960’s known as “american primitive guitar”. he drew influnce from blues artists such as: charlie patton & bukka white. as well as influnces from indian music ala ravi shankar and the cl-ssical music of bela bartok and charles ives. creating his own eccentic and original style using bluesy syncopated rhythms usually used to accompanying blues vocals, but instead applied to neo-clasical instrumental compositians. in 1959 he co-founded takoma records, that would, along with his alb-ms, also supported the recordings of various other like minded guitarists such as; leo kottke, robbie basho, and peter lang. in the late 1970’s he began to suffer from a drinking problem and epstien barr sydrome. this caused his touring and recording output to slow to a crawl; and thus, he drifted into obscurity and poverty during the 1980’s. in the 1990’s he had a comeback of sorts, releasing alb-ms such as city of refuge & womblife using heavy elements of avant-garde music, which he had been experimenting since the 1960’s. in 2001 john fahey p-ssed away after undergoing a s-xtuple bi-p-ss operation. he is remembered as a giant of 20th century music and as the godfather of modern solo acoustic guitar.
john fahey is f-cking kick -ss!!!!