John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Fahey had been hospitalized since last ...

2001-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Salem, Ore.-- John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Mr ...

John Fahey, a ground-breaking guitarist whose influence spread from the folk underground to the fringes of avant-garde rock, died on Thursday at a hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was sixty-one. Fahey, ...

John Fahey, 61, the Takoma Park native whose unorthodox and dazzling fingerpicking on the steel-string guitar helped spawn an acoustic blues revival in the 1960s and whose idiosyncratic compositions ...

This weekend, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, will host the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, the first and only festival dedicated exclusively to American-primitive guitar music. Takoma Park, a ...