John Fahey has created a unique body of guitar compositions and arrangements as well as a distinct approach to fingerstyle guitar He broke fresh ground in recording guitar music that drew from such ...

This weekend, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, will host the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, the first and only festival dedicated exclusively to American-primitive guitar music. Takoma Park, a ...

John Fahey, godfather of what came to be known as "American Primitive" guitar playing, passed away two weeks ago in Salem, Ore., at the age of 61. He died on Feb. 22 after undergoing open-heart ...

John Fahey was “a provocateur in the Romantic mode,” says a friend of the late seminal guitarist in the engrossing film “In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey.” “I live for immersion,” ...

From faithful solo sets to Television-indebted deconstructions, 2013 has been a renaissance to the fingerstyle guitar. And more so than any year,... America, The Primitive: 5 New Guitar Records That ...

bucolic instrumental “Sligo River Blues” who visit the guitarist’s native Montgomery County today may be surprised to find the title waterway (actually Sligo Creek) is a suburban rivulet surrounded by ...

Just as folk music was exploding on the counter-culture scene in the 1960s, John Fahey started playing solo, steel-string acoustic guitar. But he was no folk musician. “He hated the folk audiences,” ...