WORLD OF FAHEY INDEX
VROOTz! : FAHEY SOurCEs AND INFLUENCES
Legend:
V = Vrootz
VA = Vroots Additions
CT = Covers, Tributes & Assorted Connections
FT = First John Fahey Tribute
FF = "Don't you have anything better to do? A John Fahey Fan CD"
HB = How Bluegrass Music destroyed my Life by John Fahey
(Drag City, 2000)
AAFM = Anthology of American Folk Music (edited by Harry Smith)
~ = see Fahey tune
## = Fahey used title or quoted lyrics only
Artist Index: CD Index
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Ackerman, Will CT5
Acuff, Roy V3
Aleman, Oscar VA7
AMF CT7
Anderson, James FF
Anderson, Marian V9
Anderson, Nels CT9
Angeletti, Maurizio CT1
Armstrong, Louis VA7
Arnold, Eddie V1
Ashley, Clarence V2 V7 VA7 VA8
Atkins, Chet VA4
Atkins, Chet and Merle Travis V10
Auldridge, Mike V8
Austin, Gene VA9
Baden Powell V8 VA2 VA6
Bad Segue CT8
Bailey Brothers VA9
Baker, Duck CT6
Baker, Etta V3
Ball, Estil C VA2 VA5
Bapat, Ulhas V5
Barbecue Bob V2 V3
Barefoot Bill VA8
Basal CT8
Basho, Robbie V9 CT5
Basho-Jurgens, Steffen CT8
Basie, Count V1 VA7
Beach Boys V6
Beatles VA5
Bechet, Sydney VA3
Becker, Reinhard CT3
Benecke, Tex V6
Berkshire Bell Ringers V6
Bertrand, Jimmy VA8
Blind Blake V4
Blue Boys VA8
Blue Sky Boys V7 VA2
Boggs, Dock V2 V7 V10
Bookbinder, Roy CT5
Boyd's, Bill, Cowboy Ramblers VA4
Breaux, Clemo & Joseph Falcon VA6
Brown, L D CT8
Brown, Milton VA1
Brown, Willie V2
Burnett & Rutherford V2
Busby, Buzz VA9
Butler, Elias CT6
Butler, Sam V4 VA8
Byrd, Joseph CT6
Calt, Steve and Dave Mann CT2
Camaramans CT7
Canned Heat V9 VA4
Cannon, Gus VA4
Carter Family V1 V2 V4 VA7 VA8 VA9
Carter, Fred V4
Cat Iron VA8
Clayborn, Rev Edmund VA9
Cline, nels V9
Cole, Cozy V7
Coleman, Ornette VA7
Collins, Shirley CT7
Coltman, Bob, & Joe Bussard V8
Connolly, Stephen CT2
Cooley, Spade VA1
Cooper, Stony V1
Corbin, Denny & Cher V8
Cotton, Elizabeth V3 V4 VA5
Cleveland, Big Boy V7
Crase, James VA7
Croker, Brendan & the 5 O'Clock Shadows CT7
Crumpton, Dennis & Robert Summers V3
Cul de Sac V8 CT1 CT9
Damien, T V8
Daniels, Julius V2
Daria, Robert CT8
Davis, Rev Gary V4 VA1 VA8
Dell Vikings VA5
Dellaira, Michael CT6
De Meijer, Gert CT3
Derek and the Dominoes VA4
Deutschmeister Band V6
Dilleshaw, John V2
Domino, Fats VA5
Donegan, Lonnie VA8
Dorsey, Jimmy V6
Dudon, Jacques V9
Dvorak V5
Dylan, Bob VA2
Eaglin, Snooks VA9
Eans, Jim V1
Edwards, Cliff VA3
Eisenbeil, Bruce CT7
Elgart, Les & Larry V6
Englehardt, Toulouse CT1
Esquivel V6
Ellington, Duke V1 VA6
Fahey, John V8 V9 V10 FF
Falcon, Joseph V3
Firk, Backwards Sam V8 CT1 CT3
Fitzgerald, Ella V6
Flatt & Scruggs V1 VA5
Fleetwoods VA5
Flubber CT1
Ford, Tennessee Ernie VA8
4Treck CT7
Frenchy's String Band V4
Gaillard, Slim VA5 VA7
Gamelan Batel V7
Gastr del Sol CT2
Gentry, Bobbie V6
Georgians VA3
Gilbert, Ronnie VA1
Gilewitz, Richard CT3
Gliere V5
Good Old Boys VA1
Gould, Morton V10
Graham, Davy CT7
Graves, Blind Roosevelt VA6
Gray, Glen VA7
Grayson & Whitter V4
Greenhill, Mitch & Mayne Smith V9 FT1
Grossman, Stefan V8 V10 CT2 CT5 CT7
Gueraldi , Vince and Bola Sete V10
Gulezian, Michael V9 FT2
Hackett, Bobby V6
Hadley, Bob CT1 CT2
Halfway House Orchestra VA1
Hamada, Takasi CT3
Handy's, W C, Memphis Blues Band VA3
Harpe, Neil and Max Oches CT5
Harris, Woody CT1 CT2
Hartford, John V9
Harvey, Roy & Leonard Copeland V3 V4
Hawkins, Buddy Boy V2 VA3 VA4
Hayes, Clifford, Dixieland Jug Blowers VA3
Hedges, Michael V9
Hendrix, Jimi V8
Hensley, Walter V4
Herbert, Didier V3
Herman, Woody V6
Heywood, Phil CT1 CT3
Hickory Wind V9
Hobbs, Smiley VA2
Hodes, Art V4
Hoopii, Sol VA6
Holiday, Billie VA3
Homegas V8
House, Son V3 VA6
Hudson, Frank CT8
Human Abstract CT7
Hurt, M John V2 VA1 VA6 VA7 VA9
Hutchison, Frank V2 V4 VA4 VA6
Insect Trust CT7
Ives VA4
Jackson, Bo Weavil see Sam Butler
James, Skip V2 V4 V10 VA4 VA6
Jefferson, Blind Lemon VA6
Johns, Evan & His H-Bombs V6
Johnson, Blind Willie V1 VA7
Johnson, James P VA3
Johnson, Robert V4 VA5
Johnson, Robert V4
Johnson, Tommy V2 VA6
Johnson, Turner VA5
Jolson, Al VA8
Jones, Grandpa V1 V3
Jones, Isham VA3
Jones, Little Hat V2
Jonz, Jasper FF
Jordan, Luke VA8
Jungle Band VA6
Kaiser, Henry CT6 FT3
Kazee, Buell VA6
Keary, Ian CT3
Kellogg, Phil FT2 FF
Ketelby V5
Kimbrough, Lottie VA4
Kottke, Leo V8 V10 CT1 CT3 CT7
LaFosse, Andre CT3
Lang, Peter V8 CT1 CT6 FT3
Leadbelly VA4 VA7
Ledford, Mainer, Morris V4
Lee, Bertha V4
Lee, Geoffrey CT7
Lee, Wilma V1
Lemire, Estelle V9
Lewis, Ted VA3
Lewis, Furry V3 VA3 VA4
Liberace V6
Louise, Helen & Jo Ferera V3
Louvin Bros VA2
Lunsford, Bascon Lamar V2
McCoury, Rob CT1
McDonald, Country Joe V8 CT3
McDowell, M Fred V3 VA7
McGee, Sam V2 VA1 VA7
McIntorsh Elder & Edwards VA7
McMitchen, Clayton VA4
Macon, Uncle Dave V4 V10 VA4
McTell, Ralph VA6 VA9
Mahoney, Tinh CT3 CT5 CT7
Mamas and the Papas VA5
Mann, Woody CT3
Maphis, Joe V8
Mason, Rev Moses VA4
Memphis Sheiks VA7 VA9
Menabo, Roberto CT2
Midnight String Quartet V6
Miller, Dale CT3 CT6
Miller, John CT5
Mills Brothers VA7 VA9
Miss Murgatroid V9
Monk-One/Billy Martin CT6
Monroe, Bill V1 V3 V7 V10 VA1 VA5 VA6 VA7
Monroe Brothers VA5
Moore, Willie V2
Morris, Jess V2
Morton's, Jelly Roll, New Orleans Jazzmen VA6 VA9
Mozart VA3
Mudurian, Jack VA7
Muldoon, Charles CT8
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band V9
Nix, Rev AW VA9
Nomi, Klaus V10
Ochs, max V8
O'Day, Molly V1 V7
Oliver, King VA8
O'Rourke, Jim V9
Osbourne Brothers VA5
Paley, Tom CT5
Partch, Harry VA7
Patton, Bertha VA8
Patton, Charlie V1 V2 V3 V4 VA2 VA3 VA6 VA7 VA8 VA9
Paul, Les & Mary Ford V7
Pearson, David CT8
Pelt CT3
Perkins, Carl VA9
Phillips, Phil VA5
Pierce, Webb V1
Pinnacle Boys V7
Platters V7 V9 VA5
Popple, David FF
Presley, Elvis VA5 VA9
Presnell, Mrs Edd V3
Proctor, Chris CT3
Prokofiev V1 V5
Puleo, Johnny & his Harmonica Gang V7
Radha Krishna Temple CT5
Ragtime Ralph CT8 CT9
Rampi, Phillip CT6 FF
Randolph, Billy V7
Reid, Harvey CT1
Reinhardt, Django VA6 VA8 VA9
Renbourne, John CT7
Reno & Smiley V1 V4
Robb, Terry CT6
Robertson, Eck V2
Robeson, Paul VA1 VA3
Rodgers, Jimmie V1 V3 V4
Rodgers, Mike CT3
Rose, Jack CT4
Rosmini, Dick V8
Ruskin, Rick V9 CT5 FT1
St Saens V7
Sandoval, Hope CT8
Sandberg, Larry CT5
Sauceman Brothers VA9
Schmidt, Charles CT4 CT9 FT1 FF
Schumann, Coco VA6
Segura Brothers V3
Sete, Bola V8 V10 VA2 VA7
Shankar, Ravi V8
Sharp, Elliot CT7
Shaw, Artie V1
Shuffler, George VA5
Sibelius V5
Simone, Nina VA3
Sinatra, Frank VA8
Slooven, Gerard CT7
Smith & Allgood V4
Smith. Arvid (Tory Voodoo) CT1 CT2
Snow, Hank V1 VA6
Snow White soundtrack VA4
Spottswood, Dick VA9
Stafford, Jo V6
Stanley Bros V1 V7 VA1 VA5
Staples Singers V3 VA8
Stephens, Uncle Bunt V2
Stereolab V9
Stockhausen V9
Story, Carl V1
Stranglen, Andrew CT3 FF
Stravinsky V5 VA1
Sykes, Roosevelt V4
Tedesco, Tommy V8
Terry, Sonny & Brownie McGhee V3
TG (Gondard) CT7
Thompson, W B FF
Too Early Consort V6
Too Tight Henry VA9
Traum, Artie, & Cindy Cashdollar CT7
Travis, Merle V4 V7 V10 VA1 VA5
Two Poor Boys V2 V3 VA4
Tubb, Ernest V1
Ukelele Ike VA3
Unknown artist VA4 CT2 CT7 CT8 CT9
Vaughan Williams V5
Wakefield, Frank V9
Waters, Muddy VA6
Watson, Doc CT7 VA7
Waybacks CT3
Weaver & Beasley V2
Weaver, Sylverter V10 VA3
Weller, Lester FF
Wellins, Matt CT8
Wendt, Brian CT7
Whetstone, Tony CT8
White, Bukka V3 V4 V8
Wilkins, Rev Robert VA9
Williams, Blind Connie V3
Williams, Hank V1
Wills, Bob V3
Winston, George V8 CT1
Wiseman, Mac VA8
Wittenberg, Mitchell CT6 CT9 FF
Work, Henry Clay V5
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CD Index:
CD 1 - LEAVING CANAAN (The Center Of Interest Will Not Hold ) 5
TOTAL TIME 73:05 5
CD 2 LEAVING SILVER SPRINGS (Honey Part 1) 7
TOTAL TIME 78:49 7
CD 3 : LEAVING BASTROP (Honey Part 2) 9
TOTAL TIME 77:33 9
CD 4 LEAVING MACES SPRINGS (Honey Part 3) 11
TOTAL TIME : 77:52 11
CD5 LEAVING VENICE BEACH ("The Classics") 13
TOTAL TIME 77:20 13
CD 6 LEAVING YOGAVILLE WEST (Christmas Without John Fahey) 14
TOTAL TIME : 52:49 14
CD 7 - LEAVING SALEM ("Radio Free Vrootz") TOTAL TIME 55:43 15
CD 8 - LEAVING AZALEA CITY (Contemporaries) 16
Total time : 69:48 16
CD 9 - LEAVING OREGON CAPITOL INN (Addenda) 18
Total time : 78:17 18
CD 10 : A Disgusting, Degenerate Life (Leaving Babylon) 19
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 1 20
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 2 21
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 3 22
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 4 22
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 5 23
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 6: More Additions 24
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 7: More Additions 24
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 8: More Additions 25
Not too many Degrees of Separation - Vol 9: More Additions 26
Covers-Tributes: Volume 1 27
Covers-Tributes: Volume 2 27
Covers-Tributes: Volume 3 28
Covers-Tributes: Volume 4 28
Covers-Tributes: Volume 5 28
Covers-Tributes: Volume 6 29
Covers-Tributes: Volume 8 30
Covers-Tributes: Volume 9 31
Tribute Disc #1 31
Tribute Disc #2 31
Tribute Disc #3 32
Fahey Fan CD 32
VROOTz! : FAHEY SOurCEs AND INFLUENCES
Or,
Notes towards an interpretation of a dream of the origins of John Fahey
"The Volk do, on occasion, come up with wonderful creations."
- JF
CD 1 - LEAVING CANAAN (The Center Of Interest Will Not Hold )
TOTAL TIME 73:05
1. Fahey Gong - single gong from Raga called Pat IV - 0:20
2. Prokofiev - Birth of Kije - 4:12
From "Lt Kije Suite"
Performed by Netherlands Radio Philharmonic - Antal Dorati,
Recorded May 1974 in Hilversum, Holland
Decca Records
~ Russian Christmas Overture
3. Shaw, Artie - Nightmare - 2:52
Album : "Begin the Beguine"
Recorded 27 September 1938
Bluebird B-7875
4. Ellington, Duke - Mood Indigo - 4:50
Album : "Rainbow Room, N Y C 1967"
Recorded 1967
5. Basie, Count - Flat Foot Floogie - 4:26
Album : "Legendary Big Bands"
Recorded: unknown
Essential Music BB39422
6. Prokofiev - Kije-Romance - 4:42
[see number 2]
7. Eddy Arnold - Bouquet of Roses - 2:34
Album : "As Good as it Gets - HILLBILLY"
Recorded 1948, Composers: S Nelson, B Hilliard
DO 250502
8. Webb Pierce - Walkin' the Dog - 1:32
Album "Webb Pierce Wondering Boy"
1995 Fat Boy Records
JF : "I liked Webb Pierce a lot." HB 247.
9. Hank Snow - Sunny Side of the Mountain - 2:58
Album : "Hank Snow - My Early Country Favorites"
Recording date unknown
BGM Direct Marketing
##
10. Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel #7 - 2:51
(also known as "Anniversary Blue Yodel" )
Album "The Father Of Bluegrass : Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys, The Early Years 1940-1947 "
ASV Living Era series
JF: "It was blacker than the blackest record I had ever heard. It reached out and grabbed and it has never let go of me. I went limp. I almost fell off the sofa. My mouth fell open. My eyes widened and expanded. I found myself hyperventilating. When it was over I tried to get up and go and get a paper bag to restore the correct balance of power between oxygen and carbon monoxide…. It was like I had woken up to a new and thrilling and exciting horror movie." HB 253
11. Molly O'Day - Poor Ellen Smith - 2:39
Album : "Columbia Country Classics The Golden Age Vol 1" CD - CK 46029
recorded 04/04/1949
Composers : Lynn Davis-Molly Davis
12. Grandpa Jones & Ramona - I Don't Love Nobody - 1:22
Album : "The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands, Number 2"
CMH
13. Carl Story - My Lord Keeps a Record - 2:49
same as above
14. Wilma Lee & Stony Cooper - Are You Walkin' and a Talkin' for the Lord? - 2:06
Same as #11
15. Flatt & Scruggs - Don't Get Above Your Raisin' - 2:40
Same as above
16. Jim Eans - Little Brown Hand - 2:23
from the collection of Joe Bussard "Classic Bluegrass Vol 2"
orig.: Decca 28552
JF : "a bluegrass coon song. A light, happy song, probably the last coon song ever written… A few years later when I met Jim Eans…he said that he had written it sometime before the civil rights movement and wasn't trying to poke fun at the blacks" HB 268-9.
17. Ernest Tubb - Tomorrow Never Comes - 3:04
same as #7 above
Recorded 1944
Composers: E. Tubb, J. Bond
18. Stanley Bros. - Life's Railway to Heaven - 2:21
Wango Records #1784
~ Life is Like a Mountain Railroad
19. Reno & Smiley - I'm Using My Bible As a Roadmap - 2:30
from the collection of Joe Bussard "Classic Bluegrass Vol 1"
orig.: King 1045
20. Jimmie Rodgers - Traveling Blues - 2:45
Album : "My Rough and Rowdy Ways"
Recorder 1931
RCA Victor
21. Hank Snow - Bluer Than Blue - 3:06
Album : "Hank Snow My Early Country Favorites"
Decca
22. Hank Williams - Alone & Forsaken - 2:00
Album : "Alone with His Guitar"
Recorded: Radio performance and first demo jan-may 1949
Mercury
JF: "the most distressing desolation song I have ever heard. It's even in a minor key." HB 279.
23. Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied - 3:10
Album : "Praise God I'm Satisfied"
Recorded 1929
Yazoo 1058
JF : "When he played 'Praise God I'm Satisfied' I broke down in tears and cried for about 15 minutes. I can't explain it, that's just what happened." Frets Magazine August 1980.
24. Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken - 3:08