John Fahey - Volume 2 / Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes flac album

Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes is a 1963 album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Various sources show either a 1963 or 1964 original release. It was Fahey's second release and the first to gain a national distributor. John Fahey's first album was self-released on Takoma Records although the label didn't formally exist until 1963.

Death Chants, Break Downs & Military Waltzes ‎(LP, Album, Mono). SNTF 608. John Fahey. Volume 2, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes ‎(LP, Album, RE).

Discography Menu Index Page Sessions 1959-1966 Sessions 1967-1973 Sessions 1974-2000 Things to Come Fonotone Blind Joe Death Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes Early Sessions Dance of Death Guitar Volume 4 The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death Days Have Gone By The Voice of the Turtle Requia Yellow Princess The New Possibility America Of Rivers and Religion After the Ball Fare.

Title on spine: Vol II Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes Title on insert: Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes Volume II of John Fahey, guitar with Nancy McLean, flute. Different labels to this version, with no catalogue number at the bottom. Track listing on back cover is reversed from that on the label. Tracks listed as Side 1 on back cover are listed on Side 2 label; tracks listed on Side 2 on back cover are listed on Side 1 label. Stereo listed on cover, but Monaural listed on label

Death Chants proved to be the album that began the first real spread of his music when his friend Norman Pierce began to wholesale copies to US folk hotspots from his Berkeley record store. Fahey had re-located to Berkeley where he was majoring in Philosophy at UC, and he was happy for Pierce to become the main outlet for his tiny Takoma label issues. As with his first album, this second outing had spoof notes from Fahey under a pseudonym that set him apart from the then folk mainstream for which he had a healthy distaste

Fahey recorded two entirely different versions of this record: one issued in 1963 and one mostly of re-recordings in 1967. The CD reissue of Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes does Fahey fans a massive favor by combining both versions onto one disc. Preceded only by the super-rare original version of Blind Joe Death, the 1963 LP of Death Chants was the first Fahey album to gain reasonably wide distribution

Fahey recorded two versions of this album, one in 1963, the other in 1967; this deluxe reissue gives you both! This was his second album, and the first to get any kind of distribution (the re-record benefits from better fidelity); with compositions like When the Springtime Comes Again; Some Summer Day, and the epic America, it's essential. This inspired collection reissues all the music from John Fahey's genre-expansive, groundbreaking 1964 disc Death Chants and its (mostly) rerecorded version from 1967.

Vol. 2, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes. Vol. 2, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes Tracklist. 1. Sunflower River Blues Lyrics. Episcopal hymn Lyrics. 2, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes Q&A. Writers John Fahey, The Poor Boys & Ralph Vaughan Williams. More John Fahey albums. The Best Of John Fahey 1959 - 1977. Show all albums by John Fahey.