On Air (John Fahey album)

2005 live album by John Fahey

On Air

Live album by

John Fahey

Released| August 23, 2005
Recorded| March 20, 1978, Bremen, Germany
Genre| American primitivism
Label| Tradition & Moderne
Producer| Henry Kaiser
John Fahey chronology
| The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
(2004)  | On Air
(2005)  | Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey
(2006)

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On Air is a live album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, recorded in 1978 and released posthumously in 2005.

## History[edit]

The tracks from On Air come from a performance on Radio Bremen in Germany in 1978. The tapes were assembled and sequenced by producer Henry Kaiser.

## Reception[edit]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [2]

Allmusic critic Thom Jurek wrote "Fahey spins out a musical universe that straddles musical worlds, dips into them, and carries the detritus somewhere else to make something entirely new yet rooted in time immemorial. This document is a welcome addition to the Fahey shelf and a must for fans."[1]

## Track listing[edit]

All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise noted.

1. "On the Sunny Side of the Ocean" – 3:52
2. "Spanish Two-Step" – 2:09
3. "Lion" – 6:28
4. "Poor Boy a Long Way from Home" – 5:02
5. "Wine & Roses" – 4:17
6. "Steamboat Gwine 'Round de Bend" – 4:07
7. "Worried Blues" – 2:10
8. "Some Summer Day" – 3:26
9. "Candy Man" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 4:05
10. "Stomping Tonight on the Pennsylvania/Alabama Border" – 8:16
11. "In Christ There Is No East or West" (Traditional) – 8:05
12. "Beverly" – 11:42
13. "Requiem for John Hurt (Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt)" – 4:12

Contrary to the official track listing on the CD package, tracks 11 and 12 are incorrectly labelled. They should be as follows:

11\. "In Christ There Is No East or West / Beverly"
12\. "Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain"

The description of "Beverly" as a 'slide guitar piece' in the liner notes is also inaccurate. This can be confirmed by listening to "Beverly" on 1973 album After the Ball, and "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV (of Spain)" on 1969 recording The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick (also on 1964 album Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes in shorter form).

## Personnel[edit]

* John Fahey – guitar

Production notes

* Henry Kaiser – producer, liner notes
* Dietram Köster – engineer
* Jürgen Kuntze – engineer
* Peter Schulze – engineer
* Klaus Schumann – engineer
* Rolf Kirschbaum – mastering
* Christine Potschkat – mastering
* R. Romanowski – mastering
* Michael Ochs – photography

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "On Air > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.

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John Fahey

Discography

Studio albums|

* Blind Joe Death
* Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes
* The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
* The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
* The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions
* Days Have Gone By
* The Voice of the Turtle
* Requia
* The Yellow Princess
* The New Possibility
* America
* Of Rivers and Religion
* After the Ball
* Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
* Old Fashioned Love
* Christmas with John Fahey Vol. II
* John Fahey Visits Washington D.C.
* Yes! Jesus Loves Me
* Railroad
* Let Go
* Popular Songs For Christmas and New Year's
* Rain Forests, Oceans and Other Themes
* I Remember Blind Joe Death
* God, Time and Causality
* The John Fahey Christmas Album
* Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories
* City of Refuge
* Womblife
* Hitomi
* Red Cross

78s and EPs|

* The Fonotone Sessions
* Double 78
* The Mill Pond

Live albums|

* Live in Tasmania
* Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other Contemporary Dance Favorites
* The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
* On Air
* Some Summer Day

Collaborations|

* The Epiphany of Glenn Jones
* John Fahey Trio KBOO
* John Fahey Trio, Vol. One

Split albums|

* Leo Kottke, John Fahey & Peter Lang

Compilations|

* The Early Sessions
* The Essential John Fahey
* The Best of John Fahey 1959–1977
* The Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology
* The Legend of Blind Joe Death
* The Best of the Vanguard Years
* The Best of John Fahey, Vol. 2: 1964–1983
* Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey
* Vanguard Visionaries
* Twilight on Prince Georges Avenue: Essential Recordings
* Christmas Soli
* Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958–1965
* Proofs & Refutations

Tribute albums|

* A Tribute to John Fahey
* I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
* Friends of Fahey Tribute
* The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album
* The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration

Related articles|

* American primitive guitar
* Takoma Records
* Revenant Records
* Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4
* Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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