Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years, 1958–1965

Box set




Disc One

Interview: John Fahey on Fonotone Records and Joe Bussard(John Fahey)


Franklin Blues (John Fahey)


Smoketown Strut (John Fahey)


Steel Guitar Rag (John Fahey)


Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues (John Fahey)


Buck Dancer's Choice (1) (John Fahey)


Medley: Pretty Polly/Shortnin' Bread (John Fahey)


Barbara Namkin Blues (John Fahey)


In Christ There Is No East or West (John Fahey)


Stak 'O Lee Blues [Louis Collins] (John Fahey)


The Transcendental Waterfall (1) (John Fahey)


John Henry (1) (John Fahey)


Over the Hill Blues (1) (John Fahey)


St. Louis Blues (John Fahey)


On Doing an Evil Deed Blues (John Fahey)


Reinumeration Blues (Brenda's Blues) (1) (John Fahey)


The Transcendental Waterfall (2) (John Fahey)


Mississippi Boweavil Blues ( Blind Thomas)


Green River Blues ( Blind Thomas)


Over the Hill Blues (2) (John Fahey)


Libba's Rag (John Fahey)


Chris's Rag (John Fahey)



Disc Two

St. Louis Tickle (John Fahey)


Pat Sullivan's Blues (John Fahey)


Blind Blues (aka Martin's Esso Blues) (John Fahey)


Poor Boy Blues (John Fahey)


Long Time Town Blues (Blind Thomas)


Gulf Port Island Blues (Blind Thomas)


Blind Thomas Blues, Pt. 1 (Blind Thomas)


Blind Thomas Blues, Pt. 2 (Blind Thomas)


New Newport News Blues #2 (Blind Thomas)


Wanda Russell's Blues (Blind Thomas)


Going Away to Leave You Blues (Blind Thomas)


Lay My Burden Down (Blind Thomas)


Hill High Blues (Blind Thomas)


John Henry (2) (Blind Thomas)


Paint Brush Blues (Blind Thomas)


Blind Thomas Blues, Pt. 3 (Blind Thomas)


Blind Thomas Blues, Pt. 4 (Blind Thomas)


You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond (Blind Thomas)


Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed (Blind Thomas)


Banty Rooster Blues (Blind Thomas)


Tom Rushen Blues (Blind Thomas)



Disc Three

Yallaboosha River Blues (Blind Thomas)


You Gonna Miss Me (Blind Thomas)


Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Pt. 1 (Blind Thomas)


Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Pt. 2 (Blind Thomas)


Zekiah Swamp Blues (Blind Thomas)


Nobody's Business (Blind Thomas)


Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Pt. 1 (Blind Thomas)


Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Pt. 2 (Blind Thomas)


You Better Get Right So God Can Use You (Blind Thomas)


Weissman Blues (Blind Thomas)


Dasein River Blues (Blind Thomas)


Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Pt. 1 (Blind Thomas)


Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Pt. 2 (Blind Thomas)


Smoky Ordinary Blues (1) (Dance of the Inhabitants (1)) (Blind Thomas)


I Shall Not Be Moved (Blind Thomas)


Old Country Rock (Blind Thomas)


Little Hat Blues (Blind Thomas)


Guitar Solo Title Unknown (1) (Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent(John Fahey)


Guitar Solo Title Unknown (2) (Night Train to Valhalla (1)) (John Fahey)


Some Summer Day (2) (John Fahey)


The Langley Two-Step (John Fahey)


Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River (John Fahey)



Disc Four

Saint John's Hornpipe (John Fahey)


Sail Away Ladies (John Fahey)


Dreaming Under the B & O Trestle (John Fahey)


900 Miles (John Fahey)


Prince George's Dance (John Fahey)


Improvisation for Flute and Guitar (John Fahey)


Dorothy/Calvert Street Blues (1) (Brenda's Blues (2)) (John Fahey)


Brenda's Blues (3) (John Fahey)


Buck Dancer's Choice (2) (John Fahey)


Night Train to Valhalla (2) (John Fahey)


In the Pines (Vandiver)


Pretty Polly (Vandiver)


Take This Hammer (Vandiver)


Yazoo Basin Blues (John Fahey)


Stomping Tonight On the (Old) Pennsylvania/Alabama Border (John Fahey)


Smoky Ordinary Blues (2) (Dance of the Inhabitants (2)) (John Fahey)


Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent (2) (John Fahey)


Bean Vine Blues (Pea Vine Blues) (John Fahey)


Green Blues (Mississippi Swampers)


Stone Pony (Mississippi Swampers)



Disc Five

Dorothy/Calvert Street Blues (2) (Brenda's Blues (4)) (John Fahey)


Days Have Gone By (John Fahey)


Some Summer Day (2) (John Fahey)


Texas & Pacific Blues (My Bucket's Got a Hole in It) (John Fahey's Shuffle Band)


John Henry Blues (John Fahey's Shuffle Band)


Brenda's Blues (5) (John Fahey)


St. Patrick's Hymn (John Fahey)


Bicycle Built for Two (John Fahey)


The Blues You Saved for Me (John Fahey)


House Carpenter (John Fahey)


How Long (1) (John Fahey)


The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California (John Fahey)


You Take the E Train (The Last Steam Engine Train) (John Fahey)


I Sing a Song of the Saints of God (John Fahey)


How Long (2) (John Fahey)


O Jesus I Have Promised (1) (John Fahey)


I Am a Rake and Rambling Boy (John Fahey)


Medley: Goodbye Old Paint (1)/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggie(John Fahey)


Goodbye Old Paint (2) (John Fahey)


Simple Gifts (John Fahey)


Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (John Fahey)


Goodbye Old Paint (3) (John Fahey)


Western Medley (John Fahey)


Durgan Park (John Fahey)


The Bitter Lemon (John Fahey)


Old Southern Medley [Fragment] (John Fahey)


Bottleneck Blues (John Fahey)




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