
Georgia
Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other
Contemporary Dance Favorites
georgia stomps________________________________________________________________________________________________
atlanta struts________________________________________________________________________________________________
and_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
other contemporary dance favorites_____________________________________________________________________________
painting by john fahey - 2/99_____________________________________________________________________________________
The
title is typically sardonic: This is as far from dance music as
you'll get.
Acoustic gutarist Fahey goes electric, swapping his oaken
tone for a reverberant shimmer. Through
the haze, bare-boned melodies
emerge ("House of the Rising Sun", Ellington's
"Mood Indigo"), beautiful
hymnlike in their starkness. Fahey's doing what he's always
done:
painting highly personal soundscapes using
America roots music as his palette.
( A-
) Entertainment
Weekly #457- Nov. 6, 1998