Name: The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party
Brand: John Fahey

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4m204lp

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-08-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

John Fahey

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

4 Men With Beards

Originally released in 1966. Fahey's never recorded an album that was more thoroughly of its moment. From the groovy flute and twangy sitar accompaniment to the backwards guitar, this Birthday Party is a charmingly trippy 60s time capsule. But it isn't a two dimensional one. The album gains immense depth from the tension between his sweeping, fingerpicked melodies and discordant string-battery. It's the audible battle between yearned for rose colored luminescence and ankle blistering hellhound darkness that enables this record to transcend its hippie dreaminess.

The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party

Music GB