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A new album from John
Fahey is almost always a
welcome treat, and his most
recent release on his own
Takoma label, "Old Fashioned
Love " is a thing of rare beauty
indeed.
Fahey continues in the vein
of his last album for Reprise,
and works with a select group
of solid, professional brass and
reedmen who recreate with
Fahey the sound and feel of
turn-of-the-century dance
music. The meeting of master
guitarist and mischievous
musicians comes off famously,
even erupting into an
unprecedented (at least in
connection with Fahey) vocal
interlude that recalls the
'Danton's
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rendition of "Mame."
The second side of the
album is dominated by this
early 1900's-style music, but
the first side is reserved for the
music that Fahey has
championed for more than a
decade-unaccompanied
acoustic guitar. On this side,
too, he departs from his usual
practice and is accompanied by
one Woodrow Mann, who
acquits himself with
distinction. Of special delight is
the creakily dissonant "In a
Persian Market," which shines
with the glinty, clean-edged
guitar tone that is a hallmark
of Fahey's work of the last
"Danton's Death," a tragedy by Georg
Buechner on the figures and ideas of the French
Revolution, will begin its run Friday in Howell
Theater. Directed by William Morgan, the play
converts what might have been a simply
representational case history into a series of
brief, episodic fragments that gain in dramatic
momentum and emotional impact more than
they lose in logical development.
"Danton's Death" was penned by Buechner in
1835, while he was still an undergraduate. A
disillusioned radical, he had been sent from his
university to a provincial town by his father, who
hoped to keep his son out of the hands of the
law. Hurt but realizing the necessity of his
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It is interesting to contrast
this album with Fahey's past
career. Starting around 1960,
there began to appear in
marginal record stores a new
label, whose limited catalog
centered around the offerings
of John Fahey. Takoma
Records, as the label was
named, was dedicated to the
principle that the finest music
let loose upon the ear comes
from the acoustic guitar. With
Fahey as a cornerstone, the
label added slowly to its
collection of obscure,
sometimes downright
obnoxious guitarists plying
their trade with an aggravating
excellence.
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One early addition was
Robbie Basho, who did not
meet with much save critical
success, but resurfaces from
time to time, his mysticism and
dove wore
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heraldic imagery mystifying
audiences as before. Another
was Leo Kottke, a Minneapolis
musician who played several of
Fahey's six-string guitar pieces
on a stiff Gibson twelve-string.
Fahey referred to Kottke's
voice as being "like geese farts
father's action, Buechner secretly set out to
create a unique play that might earn enough
money to allow him to leave the. country before
being clapped into prison to be forgotten like so
many other political prisoners.
Unfortunately, Buechner died a scant two
years after the completion of "Danton's Death,"
leaving this, his masterpiece, and an assortment
of lesser work as his legacy. His work has been
called the inspiration for the epic style of
didactic German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
"Danton's Death" will be staged in Howell
Theater at 8:00 p.m. April 25 though May 3.
Tickets are $3, $2.50 for students, available in
the Temple Building box office from 1 to 5 pjn.
Monday through Friday.
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on a muggy day" and signed
him to Takoma. This signing
resulted in Kottke's first
totally instrumental album, an
event that met with much
critical and popular acclaim
and established Kottke as a
"name" outside of the
Minnesota coffee house circuit.
At the center, though,
remained Fahey, constantly
refining his technique and
building a reputation as
perhaps the most innovative
folk-blues guitar picker in
America. Not one to remain
still musically, he also
improved the production
values of his recordings, rising
from the empty-garage
resonances of his first albums
to a smooth, flawless product
that lets nothing distract the
listener from the glorious
guitar sounds.
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Wednesday, april 23, 1975
