‘...and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land...' - song of solomon 2:12 (king james bible)
horsemouth picked up the idea of fahey week from the delta slider blogspot. (lord knows how long they’ve been running with it).
on sunday, 22 february 2015 we find the first fahey week post on horsemouth’s folk archive.
the next year we have a complete fahey week, horsemouth goes through fahey’s recorded output backwards in 7 year hops beginning with monday, 22 february 2016’s excuse me sir. do you have a minute to talk about john fahey?
in 2017 horsemouth looked at the various collaborations of john fahey.
in 2018 horsemouth begins it with his thoughts on a radio documentary - an interview about fahey’s life and work by nicholas thompson with steve lowenthal, the author of fahey biography the dance of death.
in 2019 horsemouth read and commented on an account by john jeremiah sullivan (in a collection of his journalism pulphead - dispatches from the other side of america) of phoning up fahey in pursuit of an old blues lyric.
of course there are other times in the year when fahey makes an appearance.
there are probably earlier posts on horsemouth’s facebook pages or entombed under the dead weight of myspace. he’ll dig them out for you.
but there, now we’re all caught up.
