John Fahey: Record Labels and other Trivia for Collectors

One of the aspects of the Turtle saga that has supplied surprisingly fertile ground for research is the claim that the album was withdrawn ...

These are labels for four 12" Fonotone LPs, produced as a set and almost certainly entirely unique. Here's the original owner's...

Pages from two Fonotone catalogs listing the Fahey material Joe Bussard had to offer at that point. Joe Bussard, as always at Fonotone, type...

I must apologise for my relative silence here over the Summer although I have certainly not been ignoring the blog, rather giving my time to...

When Fahey re-recorded his first two albums in 1967 it was because of dissatisfaction with various aspects of the recording quality with the...

Mayne Smith, who contributed banjo and kazoo at Fahey's Delta sessions in 1965, has a new CD about to be released - Places I've Been...

I like to think that one or two regular visitors here still have an interest in my Transfigured piece, even if it may appear to have stalle...

Since it settles quite a few debates, here are pictures of the original 1968 black & silver labelled copies of Voice of the Turtle ; the...

This catalogue was routinely packaged in with albums for a while. It is worth noting that the One String Blues album (shown as B1020) was n...

It's not too often that CDs get mentioned here (other than to complain that Fantasy could have done better) but sometimes needs must, as...

Once again this is here to flag up some additions to long-standing posts. Glenn Jones has very kindly photographed some of his rarest Fahey ...

Another terrific recording, probably left over from sessions that contributed to The Voice of the Turtle . Considerably longer than the reco...

It has long been said that there were two different eye variations for the turtle that presides over the front cover of Voice of the Turtle....

In my 'to do' box, as it were, has been the intention to start uploading the original source material that Fahey drew from and used ...

The original 1967 release: Second sleeve, probably 1968: Final sleeve, probably circa 1976: This album has four sleeves that I know of. The ...

The 1967 Riverboat release: The second Riverboat sleeve, circa 1970: The final Riverboat sleeve, circa 1972: The 1973 Takoma re-issue: The 1...