08-07-2019, 09:16 AM
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one-balled nipple jockey
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Pretty interesting that Robert Christgau loved those two Reprise records
https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70
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John Fahey: Of Rivers and Religion (Reprise, 1972) Fahey is immersed in country blues, from which he drives his own unique guitar music--eerie, funny, stately, and incredibly calm. The best tranquilizing music I know, because instead of palming off a fantasy of sodden deliverance it seems to speak of real reserves of self-control inside the American psyche. Not for everyone, but I think this is his best. A
John Fahey: After the Ball (Reprise, 1973) I'm a rock and roll fan, too, and I'd rather listen to this collection of standards and acoustic blues and rag inventions than any rock record this side of the Allmans and the New York Dolls. Conditionally guaranteed. A-
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