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The Outsider: John Fahey 1939 - 2001

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 3 March 2001

America lost of one of its most fascinating musical mavericks on Thursday, February 22, when guitarist John Fahey died after sextuple heart bypass surgery at Salem Hospital in his hometown of Salem, Oregon. He was 61.

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