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JOHN FAHEY album, VOLUME 2 / DEATH CHANTS, BREAKDOWNS & MILITARY WALTZES (TAKOMA C-1003 STEREO)
This is not a reissue of the original album; it's the 1967 re-recording of the original songs.
AMG 3 STARS: Preceded only by the super-rare original version of , the 1963 LP of  was the first  album to gain reasonably wide distribution. It's a work that beautifully displays both 's virtuosity on folk and blues guitar and a distinct composing voice that draws much from folk and blues traditions, but is not quite part of either school. 's gift for making music that's tranquil and evocative, but also with enough odd angularity and minor melody to give it depth and ambiguity, is evident right from the start, and heard to best advantage on "When the Springtime Comes Again," "Some Summer Day," and the epic "America." Even on the pieces with more straight blues connections,  achieves a full and reverberant quality that sets it off not just from the average country blues revivalists of the period, but from vintage country blues itself. He takes a journey into the avant-garde with "The Downfall of the Adelphi Rolling Grist Mill," a creepy duet with flute player . On the re-recorded versions that comprised most of the 1967 version of , the fidelity is clearer, and having improved his technique  probably felt more satisfied with these renditions. 
Condition: the sleeve- still in the shrink wrap- grades EX. The record grades NM. Original inner sleeve included; the record ships in an anti-static, dust free, archival sleeve. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.