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The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
John Fahey
The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Pop
 
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One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics drawing from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop, John Fahey was living in Berkeley, California in the late Sixties when this ...  more »

     
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All Artists: John Fahey
Title: The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
Members Wishing: 7
Total Copies: 0
Label: Water
Release Date: 11/8/2004
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Traditional Blues, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 646315713923

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One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics drawing from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop, John Fahey was living in Berkeley, California in the late Sixties when this set at San Francisco's legendary Matrix club was recorded. Drawing the best material from his two sets at the club that night, The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick shows the influential fingerpicker at the height of his prodigious technique. Deluxe package with detailed liner notes by Fahey expert (and Cul de Sac member) Glenn Jones.
 

CD Reviews

Essential early Fahey
George T. Parsons | Nevada City, CA | 12/23/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The earliest live recordings yet released by the late and immortal John Fahey, find him at the peak of his powers. Veering between his vision and version of traditional playing that may ocassionally slow or speed up for emotional emphasis, to pieces of beautiful hallucinatory individuality and expression like "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain". Over 76 minutes long with excellent sound quality, and most of the audience noise thoughtfully edited out by producer (and liner note author) Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac), making this sound more like an album than a "live album", though it has all of the charm of the latter, without having it's flow chopped up by waves of applause. Subtitled "Live at The Matrix San Francisco, California 1968/1969", this is essential for the already converted, and an ideal entry point for the novice."
Fahey At The Top Of His Form
HungryJack | West Coast | 12/17/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This set was recorded live in the late Sixties at San Francisco's legendary Matrix club (owned by Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane). The sound quality is excellent and Fahey, who was living in Berkeley, California at the time, is in top form on these 17 tracks. The packaging is out of this world and notes by Fahey scholar and Cul De Sac member Glen Jones are the very best. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!"
A first-rate treasure!!
Fahey afficionado | Connecticut | 12/16/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Fahey plays some of his best songs from the Takoma/Vanguard period of the late 1960's extremely well -- he is in his prime and his muse is with him. The audio quality is remarkably good, and a great job has been done producing this cd... nice package and notes, also. If you heard John Fahey perform during the Sixties this will take you back, and as a live recording it fills a void in the available works. For those enjoy Fahey's music, this is not to be missed."