With its strong selection of songs and impressive fidelity, The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick is a worthy summary of where Fahey was at this high point. Musicians complain that critics like to ...

Fahey was a musicologist, folklorist (with a Masters from ... in Tasmania album or the gorgeous ‘When the Catfish is in Bloom’, preferably from The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick. The latter track is ...

P.S.: One of the great pleasures of writing about semi ... The filmmaker Erik Nelson shot this video in John Fahey’s basement in Santa Monica, in the summer of 1981, for an MTV News segment.

Relatively few musicians can lay claim to creating an entire school of music. John Fahey is among the number who can though his reclusive nature has often been at odds with the accompanying celebrity ...