Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts & Contemporary Dance Favorites - Perfect for Dance Classes, Performances & Fitness Routines
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Amazon.com American composer, guitarist, and record-label honcho John Fahey virtually pioneered the use of the acoustic guitar as a solo instrument in the late 1950s. His "American primitive" sound is influenced by Delta blues, free jazz, ragtime, compositional classical music, and the sound of trains; above all, it celebrates the resonating hum of the guitar string. Fahey is a master musician in a league with John Lee Hooker, Sonny Rollins, or Bola Sete. There's still big, bluesy, idiosyncratic sound ready to flow from his fingers, but his playing has mellowed a bit and gone off on tangents that will likely most interest people who already are fans. Recorded in an intimate theater in Atlanta in 1997, this disc shows Fahey improvising a slow-burning set of original and traditional compositions. The way he ruminates and dissects "House of the Rising Sun," in particular, is fascinating and fresh. --Mike McGonigal Review Acoustic guitarist Fahey goes electric, swapping his oaken tone for a reverberant shimmer. -- Entertainment Weekly
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After Fahey's remarkable comeback in 1996, he could have made life much easier for himself by trying to sound like his old brilliant fingerpicking self, but no, he had to be awkward. He changed direction completely and aligned himself with a genre he called "Industrial Ambient", and put out experimental guitar-with-noise records. He called his old records lots of rude names and said that the long tone poems on such albums as "Fare Forward Voyager" or "America" made him sick with their pretentiousness. So here we have "Georgia Stomps" full to the brim of long tone poems - okay, let's call them medleys instead. The other thing John did, to annoy people, was to ditch the acoustic guitar and plug in, and this is his first electric guitar record. And it's recorded live too. But don't expect Van Halen or Metallica riffs - he turns the volume right down and he fingerpicks anyway. Oh, but he puts this strange wobbly echo effect on absolutely everything for the whole 70 minutes, so you might need a sick bag handy, because the wobbly echoey ambience can really get to you after half an hour. So that's the background - is it any good? Well, it's kind of just weird. There are 2 pieces I really like - Red Rocking Chair is a long medley based around some Dock Boggs phrases, and Song of Sara is a slide piece with some really extreme fx, but mostly this set is very s-l-o-w. Fans please note - whatever it says, the Japanese edition has NO BONUS TRACKS.
