Review:
"Heartfelt but evenhanded." --The Big Takeover
""Dance of Death" benefits from astute research and interviews with friends, contemporaries, fellow musicians, and family, painting a vivid picture of a remarkable man." "Under the Radar" "
The wonderfully inventive, even utopian guitarist John Fahey spun what seemed to be an impenetrable web around his life, but Steve Lowenthal has picked away the strands with dogged research and eloquent passion, revealing an artist worth knowing and caring about. Gary Giddins, "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams" and "Visions of Jazz""
John Fahey was a renegade, an outlier of the academy investigating the true mystic roots of the American blues psyche. It is our great fortune to have Steve Lowenthal s steadfast and diligently researched biography of this remarkable iconoclast who inarguably inspired a generation and beyond of radical/traditional music freaks. Thurston Moore"
"Heartfelt but evenhanded." The Big Takeover "
"Dance of Death benefits from astute research and interviews with friends, contemporaries, fellow musicians, and family, painting a vivid picture of a remarkable man." --Under the Radar
"The fate of the markedly talented and decidedly peculiar, even misanthropic Fahey is told engagingly and with insight by Steve Lowenthal in a compact but potent new biography, Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist." --NewRepublic.com
"Lowenthal deftly balances Fahey's achievements and shortcomings, and in the process humanizes an extremely talented and profoundly troubled man." --Baltimore Magazine
"The wonderfully inventive, even utopian guitarist John Fahey spun what seemed to be an impenetrable web around his life, but Steve Lowenthal has picked away the strands with dogged research and eloquent passion, revealing an artist worth knowing and caring about." --Gary Giddins, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Visions of Jazz
"John Fahey was a renegade, an outlier of the academy investigating the true mystic roots of the American blues psyche. It is our great fortune to have Steve Lowenthal's steadfast and diligently researched biography of this remarkable iconoclast who inarguably inspired a generation and beyond of radical/traditional music freaks." -Thurston Moore
About the Author:
Steve Lowenthal started and ran the music magazine Swingset; his writing has also been published in Fader, Spin, Vice, and the Village Voice. He ran the record label Plastic for five years and currently runs the VDSQ label, which specializes in solo instrumental acoustic guitar music. He lives in New York City. David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
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