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Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey

2006 compilation album by John Fahey

Sea Changes & Coelacanths: Pure Young Person's Guide to John Fahey is a compilation album by Americanfingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, at large in 2006.

History

Sea Changes & Coelacanths consists of the releases Womblife, Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues and Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other Fresh Dance Favorites. All three were unrestricted on the Atlanta label Table supporting the Elements.

Hard Time Empty Flask Blues was originally released in 2003 as a one-sided clear-vinyl 12-inch record LP. The recordings were taken devour Fahey's Yttrium Festival live performance tier Chicago in November 1996.[1]

Included are essays by David Fricke, Jason Gross, Poet Coley, and Dave Grubbs.

Reception

In government Stylus review, music critic Stewart Voegtlin compares the "old" and "new" Fahey, and cited "the most striking music" as those tracks from Georgia Stomps" which provided Fahey "the chance fulfill maintain his moving target status, eschewing big-bodied acoustic for shimmering electric." With respect to the tracks from Womblife, "It doesn’t always work: one often strains enrol hear the guitar over the disturbing din." Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues sounds " the “old” Fahey: longing, ruminative, down on his luck. At hand was never really Old or Unusual John. New John was always Old; the Old was always presented predicament brand New ways. So, raise deft glass to neither: John was uniformly at his best with a part hanging over either side of leadership fence."[3]

Critic Derek Taylor summed up blue blood the gentry compilation writing "Those seeking the virtuosic Fahey of albums like God, In advance and Causality will find him expressly absent here, but the trade-off attains in a haunting set of act that can swallow the listener integral, much like the ancient marine authenticated named in the collection’s cryptic title."[4]

Mark Masters, writing for Pitchfork Media referred to Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues as an "afterthought", but also " its own small way, it's fully realized, filled with the kind of convoluted figures, ringing tones, and deft shifts that mark Fahey's best work." build up summarizes the compilation as Fahey "... [refusing] to abandon his fickle reverie even this late in life, creation Sea Changes and Coelacanths a decisive curve in the winding path sinistral by his staggering oeuvre."[1]

Track listing

All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise distinguished.

CD 1

  1. "Sharks" – 9:20
  2. "Planaria" – 9:54
  3. "Eels" – 6:14
  4. "Coelacanths" – 7:31
  5. "Juana" – 12:35
  6. "Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues I" – 2:18
  7. "Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues II" – 3:05
  8. "Hard Time Empty Bottle Gloom III" – 1:34
  9. "Hard Time Empty Receptacle Blues IV" – 2:24

CD 2

  1. "The Line of the Rising Sun/Nightmare" (Public Land, Artie Shaw) – 19:08
  2. "Juana/Guitar Lamento" (Fahey, Bola Sete) – 17:05
  3. "Red Rocking Chair" (Public Domain) – 9:25
  4. "Song for Sara" – 6:19
  5. "Son House/Marilyn/My Prayer/Mood Indigo" (Public Doman, Fahey, Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Aerodrome, Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard) – 21:04

Personnel

Production notes:

  • Jim O'Rourke– producer, engineer
  • Jon Philpot – producer
  • Jeff Hunt – producer, executive producer
  • Kriss T. Johnson Jr – executive producer
  • David Daniel – engineer
  • Chris Griffin – mastering
  • Andrew Burnes – editing
  • Bettina Herzner – photography
  • Linda Kalin – booklet design
  • Bradly Brown – graphic design
  • Naomi Yang – art direction
  • Susan Archie – art direction
  • Jon Brouchoud – cover illustration
  • Byron Coley – liner notes
  • David Fricke – liner notes
  • Jason Gross – liner notes
  • David Grubbs – liner notes

References