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Days Have Gone By

A record of sound effects and Eastern tunings set beside his older guitar style, with locomotive noises in the mix.
John Fahey, 1967

Released
1967

The cover calls it Volume 6, following 1966's The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, which is labelled Guitar Vol. 4. Days Have Gone By carries on the soundscape and sound-effect experiments begun on that record and mixes them with the more traditional guitar playing of his earlier work, most clearly in the two-part A Raga Called Pat. Cul de Sac covered The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California on their album ECIM.

Ronnie D. Lankford Jr. of AllMusic said the album enriches the palette of the guitar with Eastern tunings. In late 2007 The Guardian put it on its list of 1000 albums to hear before you die, praising the splicing and sampling and the locomotive sounds that blend with the acoustic guitar. Takoma reissued it on CD in 2001.

Track listing

  1. The Revolt of the Dyke Brigade2:40
  2. Impressions of Susan5:08
  3. Joe Kirby Blues3:12
  4. Night Train of Valhalla2:17
  5. The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California4:26
  6. A Raga Called Pat, Pt. 16:25
  7. A Raga Called Pat, Pt. 28:13
  8. My Shepherd Will Supply My Needs8:52
  9. My Grandfather's Clock1:31
  10. Days Have Gone By2:54
  11. We Would Be Building1:57

Personnel

More from John Fahey

Blind Joe Death (1959), Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes (1963), The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (1965), Requia (1967), The Yellow Princess (1968), America (1971), Of Rivers and Religion (1972), Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) (1973), The Best of John Fahey 1959-1977 (1977), Railroad (1983), Womblife (1997)

Sources

  1. Days Have Gone By, Wikipedia