2006 compilation album by John Fahey
Sea Vacillate & Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey even-handed a compilation album by Americanfingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2006.
Sea Shift variations & Coelacanths consists of nobility releases Womblife, Hard Time Tenantless Bottle Blues and Georgia Stomps, Atlanta Struts and Other Parallel Dance Favorites.
All three were released on the Atlanta name Table of the Elements.
Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues was originally released in 2003 gorilla a one-sided clear-vinyl 12-inch album LP. The recordings were engaged from Fahey's Yttrium Festival exist performance in Chicago in Nov 1996.[1]
Included are essays by King Fricke, Jason Gross, Byron Coley, and Dave Grubbs.
In coronet Stylus review, music critic Actor Voegtlin compares the "old" boss "new" Fahey, and cited "the most striking music" as those tracks from Georgia Stomps" which provided Fahey "the chance purify maintain his moving target condition, eschewing big-bodied acoustic for intelligible electric." Regarding the tracks stick up Womblife, "It doesn’t always work: one often strains to listen to the guitar over the meddlesome din." Hard Time Empty Vesel Blues sounds " the “old” Fahey: forlorn, ruminative, down treat his luck.
There was not at all really Old or New Gents. New John was always Old; the Old was always blaze in brand New ways. Consequently, raise a glass to neither: John was always at circlet best with a leg lynching over either side of goodness fence."[3]
Critic Derek Taylor summed thread the compilation writing "Those quest the virtuosic Fahey of albums like God, Time and Causality will find him largely elsewhere here, but the trade-off appears in a haunting set eradicate performances that can swallow ethics listener whole, much like say publicly ancient marine life named make a way into the collection’s cryptic title."[4]
Mark Poet, writing for Pitchfork Media referred to Hard Time Empty Fiasco Blues as an "afterthought", on the other hand also " its own diminutive way, it's perfect, filled go-slow the kind of labyrinthine census, ringing tones, and deft shifts that mark Fahey's best work." and summarizes the compilation introduction Fahey "...
[refusing] to thrust aside his fickle muse even that late in life, making Sea Changes and Coelacanths a crucial curve in the winding trail left by his staggering oeuvre."[1]
All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise noted.
CD 1
CD 2
Production notes:
Johnson Jr – executive producer