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John Fahey: The Persecutions And Resurrections Of Blind Joe Death

Byron Coley, Spin, November 1994

More than 30 years of mind-blowing guitar playing and composing have earned John Fahey a hip handful of devoted fans and a squalid room in a welfare motel. Byron Coley explores the uncommon life of one of America's neglected musical treasures.

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