Guitar Artistry John Fahey DVD Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop

Guitar Artistry John Fahey DVD Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop\n\nStefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop\n\nMUSVESTAPOL13121\n\nOne of acoustic music\u2019s true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar over the last few decades. His music was so eclectic that it\u2019s arguable whether he shouldbe defined as a \u201Cfolk\u201D artist. In a career that saw him issue several dozen albums, he drew from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop. His good friend Dr. Demento has noted that Fahey \u201Cwasthe first to demonstrate that the fingerpicking techniques of traditional country and blues steel-string guitar could be used to express a world of non-traditional musical ideas -- harmonies and melodies you\u2019d associatewithBartok, Charles Ives, or maybe the music of India.\u201D The more meditative aspects of his work foreshadowed new age music, yet Fahey played with a fierce imaginat.