Remembering John Fahey, born John on February 28, 1939, in Washington, D.C. – he died on February 22, 2001. Fahey was a fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in Ameri

John Fahey performing "The Death of the Clayton Peacock" in 1969. | Dust-to-Digital