Fahey Folk Fuckin'

Something that I haven't gotten into before, but now is opening my cranium to the light of truth = John Fahey, and in a farther extension, folk,blues,americana. This is not something that a music snob college rock'n'roller would listen to in 2000 (at least I didn't). This is moving into the realm of record store nerd, record collector delving that the last 5 years has seen move into the mainstream of (or periphery of) hipster parlance & paraphernalia. or perhaps I have moved more into the periphery or more into the realm of record collector nerds & snobs.



Oh, Well, it don't matter. Point is, this is what I've been exploring lately. Not just Fahey, but the whole sort of (for lack of a better classification) Sun City Girls realm. Fahey, obscure Americana, Sublime Frequencies, Mississippi records, non-"world music" world musics.

Is it weird that Mississippi records also release Animals + Men & Clean represses? I SAY NO. This the realm of what is good therefore true (actually inverse) that is obscured by a lot of what gets talked about in music. This isn't crate-digging (well, it is) but the criteria is not obscurity (well not the only one) but closer to what is not heard, and what can be heard/made/expressed, in what the LCD of music, even hipster music HAPPENS. If a cultural signifier of anything (I do not pretend that it is decloaked of distracting who does it & why we do it & what that says about us & what that says were trying to say about ourselves) but at least it is more honest about that (or was Madonnnnnna the honest one about that, or SY? I always forget.)

Not to belabor the point, but Ravi... but Fahey & Raga & Ravi, that's one thing to listen for no?



There's a lot of problems with that too (yeah for closer to 20/20 hindsight!)