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Of Rivers and Religion / After the Ball (CD)
These recordings represent a shift for Fahey, playing both solo and with an ensemble. On Of Rivers & Religion, the ensemble included many of the New Orleans players who performed on Walt Disney's Song of the South film soundtrack. Gorgeous, slow, ringing slide and fingerplucked tones establish easy themes before the band enters with clarinets, banjos, and trumpets. After the Ball was a more up-tempo affair steeped in the Delta blues and in wildly varying New Orleans and bluegrass music. There is some fine Piedmont playing on the disc, as well, on "Horses." There are a number of stylistic collisions here, where Delta blues meets ragtime on "Om Shanthi Norris" and slide guitar meets the 19th-century ballad on the title track that closes the album. Taken together, these two albums represent a radically underappreciated yet fiery and fertile period for the guitarist.
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Type: CD
Recorded: 1972
Release Date: 2015-04-25
Label: Beat Goes On
Country: Euro
Item No: BGOCD1184
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Track List
01 Steamboat Gwine 'round De Bend
02 Medley: Deep River / Ol' Man River
03 Dixie Pig Bar-b-q Blues
04 Texas And Pacific Blues
05 Funeral Song For Mississippi John Hurt
06 Medley: By The Side Of The Road/i Come
07 I Come
08 Lord Have Mercy
09 Song
10 Horses
11 New Orleans Shuffle
12 Beverly
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