Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes

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Vol. 2 Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes, the second album by non other than John Fahey on his own Takoma label. Vol. 2 picks up right where Vol. 1 Blind Joe Death leaves off, delivering classic primitive guitar classics like Sunflower River Blues (which appeared on Jack Roses's Kensington Blues album) and America. Enjoy!

"Blind Joe never sang. He had no voice. He had been struck blind and dumb at the age of three by a local member of the NAACP, for not complying with the organization's demand to learn bar chords and diminished augmented sevenths, so that he might disassociate himself from the myth of the Negro past. Here, thanks to the intensely personal stubborness of an old man who refused to bow to the dictates of crass commercialism and political interfuge, sat John Fahey at the feet of this old man, listening and waiting for his hands to be big enough to play the surrogate kithera as did his mentor. For in Blind Joe's music, the young white boy could discern a way in which he could express the intensely personal, bitter-sweet, biting, soul-stirring volk poetry of the harsh, elemental, but above all human life of the downtrodden Takoma Park people ."