Sunday 3 December 2017

Day 3 - Carol Of The Bells - John Fahey with Richard Ruskin

Calendar traditionalists - of which there are a surprising number - know only too well that Sunday in Advent mean a Christmas Carol.

The first offering this year comes from 1968's 'New Possibility' album, later repackaged as 'Christmas with John Fahey', in which the American fingerstyle guitarist picks his way through a carol written by Ukranian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914.

Fahey, who died at the age of 61 in 2001 following complications from heart surgery, was once recognised by Rolling Stone magazine as being the 35th best guitarist of all time.

Every day's a school day here, eh?




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