John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (Fonotone Recordings)

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88-page book featuring 115 new tracks recorded between 1958-1965, a Dust-to-Digital and Revenant co-production, edited by Glenn Jones. Offers a unique glimpse into pre-war country...

88-page book featuring 115 new tracks recorded between 1958-1965, a Dust-to-Digital and Revenant co-production, edited by Glenn Jones. Offers a unique glimpse into pre-war country blues, capturing the obscure and otherworldly sounds of the era.

1. “Interview with John Fahey on Fonotone Records and Joe Bussard”
2. “Franklin Blues”
3. “Smoketown Strut”
4. “Steel Guitar Rag”
5. “Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues”
6. “Buck Dancer’s Choice”
7. “Medley: Pretty Polly / Shortnin’ Bread”
8. “Barbara Namkin Blues”
9. “In Christ There Is No East or West”
10. “Stak 'o Lee Blues [Louis Collins]”
11. “The Transcendental Waterfall”
12. “John Henry”
13. “Over The Hill Blues”
14. “St. Louis Blues”
15. “On Doing an Evil Deed Blues”
16. “Reinumeration Blues”
17. “The Transcendental Waterfall”
18. “Mississippi Boweavil Blues”
19. “Green River Blues”
20. “Over the Hill Blues”
21. “Libba’s Rag”
22. “Chris’s Rag”
23. “St. Louis Tickle”
24. “Pat Sullivan’s Blues”
25. “Blind Blues [Martin’s Esso Blues]”
26. “Poor Boy Blues”
27. “Long Time Town Blues”
28. “Gulf Port Island Blues”
29. “Blind Thomas Blues Part 1”
30. “Blind Thomas Blues Part 2”
31. “New Newport News Blues #2”
32. “Wanda Russell’s Blues”
33. “Going Away to Leave You Blues”
34. “Lay My Burden Down”
35. “Hill High Blues”
36. “John Henry”
37. “Paint Brush Blues”
38. “Blind Thomas Blues Part 3”
39. “Blind Thomas Blues Part 4”
40. “You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond”
41. “Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed”
42 “Banty Rooster Blues”
43. “Tom Rushen Blues”
44. “Yallaboosha River Blues”
45. “You Gonna Miss Me”
46. “Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 1”
47. “Wissenschaftlich River Blues Part 2”
48. “Zekiah Swamp Blues 6. Nobody’s Business”
49. “Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 1”
50. “Going Crabbing Talking Blues Part 2”
51. “You Better Get Right So God Can Use You”
52. “Weissman Blues”
53. “Dasein River Blues”
54. “Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 1”
55. “Racemic Tartrate River Blues Part 2”
56. “Smoky Ordinary Blues [Dance of the Inhabitants]”
57. “I Shall Not Be Moved”
58. “Old Country Rock”
59. “Little Hat Blues”
60. “Guitar Solo Title Unknown [Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent]”
61. “Guitar Solo Title Unknown [Night Train to Valhalla]”
62. “Some Summer Day”
63. “The Langley Two-Step”
64. “Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River”
65. “Saint John’s Hornpipe”
66. “Sail Away Ladies”
67. “Dreaming Under the B & O Trestle”
68. “900 Miles”
69. “Prince George’s Dance”
70. “Improvisation for Flute and Guitar”
71. “Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues [Brenda’s Blues]”
72. “Brenda’s Blues”
73. “Buck Dancer’s Choice”
74. “Night Train to Valhalla”
75. “In the Pines”
76. “Pretty Polly”
77. “Take This Hammer”
78. “Yazoo Basin Blues”
79. “Stomping Tonight on the (Old) Pennsylvania / Alabama Border”
80. “Smoky Ordinary Blues [Dance of the Inhabitants]”
81. “Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent”
82. “Bean Vine Blues [Pea Vine Blues]”
83. “Green Blues”
84. “Stone Pony”
85. “Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues [Brenda’s Blues]”
86. “Days Have Gone By”
87. “Some Summer Day”
88. “Texas & Pacific Blues [My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It]”
89. “John Henry Blues”
90. “Brenda’s Blues”
91. “St. Patrick’s Hymn”
92. “Bicycle Built for Two”
93. “The Blues You Saved for Me”
94. “House Carpenter”
95. “How Long”
96. “The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California”
97. “You Take the E Train [The Last Steam Engine Train]”
98. “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God”
99. “How Long”
100. “O Jesus I Have Promised”
101. “Untitled”
102. “Medley: Untitled / O Jesus I Have Promised”
103. “I Am a Rake and Rambling Boy”
104. “Medley: Goodbye Old Paint / Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies”
105. “Goodbye Old Paint”
106. “Simple Gifts”
107. “Untitled”
108. “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”
109. “Goodbye Old Paint”
110. “Western Medley”
111. “Durgan Park”
112. “The Bitter Lemon”
113. “Old Southern Medley (Fragment)”
114. “Bottleneck Blues”

Catalog Number DTD-21

Release Date

Artist(s)

Recording Era(s)

  • 1958-1965

Number of Tracks

Page Count

Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) Dean Blackwood, Glenn Jones, Steven Lance Ledbetter

Audio Engineer(s) Matthew Azevedo

Designer(s) Susan Archie

Writer(s)

Additional Information

  • USA

  • English

  • Guitar

  • Acoustic
  • Blues
  • Country