John Fahey: Red Cross

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The hype starts HERE.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 8 May 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

god damnit I loaned this to my friend and he hasn't given it back and I only got to listen to it once but it was pretty incredible.

― kyle, Thursday, 8 May 2003 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the one song near the end where there's an organ droning away and it's raining in the background, and someone walks in and goes, "hey what's going on John?"

i always dig that part.

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 8 May 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I got bored of it doublequick.

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That track's called "Untitled with Rain." It does everything a drone should do. It's better than your average drone, actually -- it has rain. All drones should have rain.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

We've done this haven't we?

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I want to get it. (Didn't we just do Fahey but not Red Cross specifically, a-ist?)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

TS - derek bailey "ballads" vs john fahey "red cross"

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I stand corrected. (I remember not liking Derek Bailey when I heard him a long time ago, so I usually just ignore threads involving Derek Bailey.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, ok...I'm a pretty involved Fahey fan, even though someone recently said "why all the Fahey albums? They all sound the same."

Red Cross is an elegant way for Fahey to go. It is a perfect epilogue.

no shit no lie.

― gage o (gage o), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know much Baily, and none of what I'd heard really struck me, but I bought Ballads and enjoy it immensely. Don't write it off is what I'm saying.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

When I first listened to this record, I hated it...i thought it was really boring...after the third time it grew on me. I am not a fan of the fingerpicking with the delay on it (which is on a couple of tracks), i know he was old, and getting sloppy...but that delay sounds terrible, really bad...and he isn't fooling anybody. But the whole justifies the means, there are MOMENTS of incredible beauty...it's a Grower!!

― ddb, Friday, 9 May 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

man, the delay and the sloppiness are my favorite parts of that record

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I should hear this, but I probably won't, unless someone wants to make a copy for me. (Makes puppydog face.)

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I love "the sloppy" too....the delay just has this wyndam hill feel to it.......annoying......but it's still a great record!

― ddb, Friday, 9 May 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

I am still knocked out by this record. i do not know what else to say. I try to describe why i like fahey's music to people and its so difficult to explain, there are no words. damn. i don't even know why im posting, i guess i just wanted to let it out.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Bob. God fucking DAMN I just got Christmas w/John Fahey Vol 2 and I so so so want this record!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

I think the Beuys imagery on the cover is relevant, how Beuys seemed to find this comfort and warmth and magic in fat and felt, something elemental, is how Fahey sounds like with his guitar on this. Those warm, fat, ringing reverbs on the title track are haunting and familiar. Like how he made it in the last few years of his life, it's reassuring and comforting. This is Jim O'Rourke producing right? If so it's my favourite thing by him, that daft New Age sound is so funny and also so serious and poetic. There are times when it sounds like nothing at all, just the careless ringing of notes, like a knocked over guitar, and probably these are the best bits, where it sounds like the haunted spaces of old Carter family records, that old creepy tube crackle. Like something long lost, but old and savage and with the wind just in its sails.

― I know, right?, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I don't really "get" Womblife maybe

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈colinda❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 14 September 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

It's the sound of a good purge. Not beautiful, but fascinating in context.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Monday, 14 September 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

late period unreleased Fahey here? https://concretepigrecords.bandcamp.com/album/john-fahey-the-unknown

― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:38 (eight years ago)

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