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John Fahey: After The Ball (Reprise K 44246)

Mick Gold, Let It Rock, December 1973

JOHN FAHEY goes glitter! Well, the package is a neat parody of a fifties style music-to-smooch-to album cover, complete with purple spotlight and lacquered blonde. Not the graphics you'd expect for a guitarist who sounds like a 100-year-old blues plucker recently excavated from the Mississippi mud.

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