Age Against the Machine: John Fahey reinvents his own creation
Matt Hanks, No Depression, March 1997
"I had heard such sounds before, heard them as a little boy lying in bed in the wiregrass country of south Georgia, heard the sounds of animals crying far off in the woods, heard the sounds the black woods hands made having what they called church... and heard the sounds I could not identify the really frightening ones.
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