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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

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Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

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So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

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I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

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See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

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Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

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I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

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How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 28th, 1939

Died: February 22nd, 2001

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