I Remember Blind Joe Death

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I Remember Blind Joe Death
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Studio album by
Released1987
Recorded1986 at Spectrum, Portland, Oregon
Genre Folk
Length45:41
Label Varrick
Producer Tinh Mahoney
John Fahey chronology
Rain Forests, Oceans and Other Themes
(1985)
I Remember Blind Joe Death
(1987)
God, Time and Causality
(1989)

I Remember Blind Joe Death is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1987.

Contents

This album was later disregarded by Fahey, stating the album suffers from sloppy playing due to the Epstein–Barr virus he was suffering from at the time.[ citation needed ]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
New Musical Express 8/10 [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

CMJ New Music wrote that "The record is rooted in a deep delta blues sound-but that's certainly not where it ends.. Fabulous." [5]

Track listing

  1. "The Evening Mysteries of Ferry Street" (Fahey) – 3:28
  2. "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (Harold Hensley) – 1:36
  3. "The Minutes Seem Like Hours, The Hours Seem Like Days" (Fahey) – 4:02
  4. "Are You from Dixie?" (Traditional) – 2:45
  5. "A Minor Blues" (Traditional) – 4:42
  6. "Steel Guitar Rag" (Traditional) – 2:26
  7. "Nightmare/Summertime" (Artie Shaw, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward) – 5:25
  8. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (Beth Slater Whitson, Leo Friedman) – 2:12
  9. "Unknown Tango" (Traditional) – 3:54
  10. "Improv in E Minor" (Fahey) – 7:31
  11. "Lava on Waikiki" (Fahey) – 2:18
  12. "Gaucho" (Bola Sete) – 6:00

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. "I Remember Blind Joe Death > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved March 22, 2010.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   0-85712-595-8.
  3. McKay, Alastair (November 14, 1987). "John Fahey: I Remember Blind Joe Death". New Musical Express . p. 36.
  4. Sheffield, Rob (2004). "John Fahey". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). London: Fireside Books. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
  5. "I Remember Blind Joe Death > Review". CMJ New Music . November 2000.[ permanent dead link ]