Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues (1-4) [Clear Vinyl] (LP)
John Fahey
Amoeba Review
Jeff Hunt 05/27/2010
The experimental-music label Table of the Elements turned ten years old in 2003; to mark the occasion, it released a mammoth and lavish series of single-sided, silk-screened, twelve-inch LPs dubbed “The Lanthanides.” The late, great John Fahey was deep in his experimental period in the mid-90s, but on Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues, recorded live at Chicago’s Empty Bottle in 1996, he emerges to deliver a set that recalls his country-blues, finger-picking origins. It’s an outstanding collection of tracks. The packaging itself is impressive: the LP is pressed on clear vinyl with an image on the B-side, of Icarus and Daedalus; they rise to the sky and fall to the ocean as the disk spins and spins.
Track Listing
Side A Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues 1
|
John Fahey | |
2.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues 2
|
John Fahey | |
3.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues 3
|
John Fahey | |
4.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues 4
|
John Fahey |