John Fahey | The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites

One of acoustic guitar's prime innovators (and eccentrics), he mixed traditionalist forms (folk, blues, country) with a decidedly modernist sensibility. 
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1 - "Wine and Roses" -- 0:00
2 - "How Long" -- 3:27
3 - "On the Banks of the Owchita" -- 6:24
4 - "Worried Blues" -- 10:16
5 - "What the Sun Said" -- 12:40
6 - "Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent" -- 22:52
7 - "Poor Boy" (Fahey, Bukka White) -- 25:27
8 - "Variations on the Coocoo" (arr: Fahey, Clarence Ashley) -- 28:46
9 - "The Last Steam Engine Train" -- 32:47
10 - "Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry" -- 35:06
11 - "Dance of Death" -- 38:18
1999 reissue bonus tracks:
12 - "Tulip (AKA When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose)" (Arr: Fahey, Jack Mahoney, Percy Wenrich) -- 45:58
13 - "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)" (Arr: Fahey, Harry Dacre) -- 48:42
14 - "The Siege of Sevastopol" (Arr: Haley) -- 50:02
15 - "Steel Guitar Rag" (Traditional) -- 51:25