as we travel backwards in time through john fahey’s life’s work here we are with 1980’s yes jesus loves me. horsemouth is too knackered to talk about fahey’s christmas albums (the best selling albums of his career - of which this, perhaps not the last, was his worst selling record ever). and yet it’s surprisingly decent (let all mortal flesh keep silence as an organ voluntary redone for the acoustic guitar horsemouth singles out for especial praise as it were).
horsemouth is watching the wrestler mickey rourke’s comeback movie that so nearly does it - his punchdrunk ageing wrestler persists in folly and the film (sentimentally) rewards him for it. fahey is very nearly back to the peak years of his career - tomorrow horsemouth will talk about fare forward voyagers and saturday he will talk about the dance of death and the other key early albums, on sunday horsemouth will talk about john fahey’s early fonotone recordings for joe bussard and then we will end with his influences and the music that predates his epiphany with blind willie johnson’s praise god I’m satisfied.
No comments:
Post a Comment