Listen to the metaphysical folk songs that the late John Fahey recorded way back in the 1960s, and they can still transport you to unknown worlds. And that seems to have been the idea all along ...

Takoma Park has a reputation as Washington's most eccentric suburb, dating to the days of one of its most eccentric residents, John Fahey. The "American primitive" guitarist moved to the West ...

John Fahey, a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a key figure in getting the 2000 Summer Olympics for Sydney, has died. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

In 1958, at age 19,√ legendary guitarist John Fahey recorded for the first time. The session for Frederick label Fonotone included a variation on “Blind” Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was the ...

John Fahey, shown in a 1977 photo, described his style as "American primitive." He died Feb. 22 in a Salem, Ore., hospital after sextuple heart bypass surgery. Sign up.

Last year Fantasy Records released The Best of John Fahey Vol. 2: 1963-1983, positioning it as an overdue follow-up to a Fahey best-of from 1977. Fahey, the founding father of the “American ...

A Singular Guitarist Emerges From John Fahey's Shadow. September 30, 2011 • It's been more than 10 years since the death of John Fahey, the mythical artist who helped invent the "American ...

John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Fahey had been hospitalized since ...

John Fahey, who was president of the World Anti-Doping Agency from 2007-13 and a key player in getting the 2000 Summer Olympics for Sydney, has died. He was 75.

Fahey took cues from his forebears (Elizabeth Cotten, Lena Hughes, Mississippi John Hurt), but his sadness was prodigious, and his own. It led him to write dozens of albums of odd yet breathtaking ...

John Fahey, a ground-breaking guitarist whose influence spread from the folk underground to the fringes of avant-garde rock, died on Thursday at a hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was sixty-one ...