San Bernardino Accident

John Fahey - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party and Other Excursions (1966) {Takoma TAKCD-6508-2 rel 2000}
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© 1966, 2000 Takoma Records / Fantasy | TAKCD-6508-2
Folk / Blues / Contemporary Folk / Finger-Picked Guitar / Folk Jazz / Folk-Blues / Progressive Folk

Few guitarists, even ones leaning toward the eccentric, would dream of pasting together a 19-minute instrumental out of various improvisations. But John Fahey is on his own planet, and he assured that fingerstyle guitar would never be the same when he issued The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party on his own Takoma label in 1966. The album features Fahey's more experimental explorations on the guitar between 1962 and 1966, ranging from solo guitar on "Guitar Excursions Into the Unknown" to the eerie organ accompaniment on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."

Dave’s Picks Volume 29 is sourced from master reels taped by the great Betty Cantor-Jackson. The Grateful Dead opened the concert with the newly composed “Terrapin Station,” which would soon take up the entire second side of its namesake LP released later in July. In addition, the band fit the debut of the instant classic “Estimated Prophet” into their first show of 1977. Other highlights include a pretty “They Love Each Other,” impressive “Help On The Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower” and standout sequence of “Eyes Of The World” > “Dancin’ In The Streets.” Plus, Dave’s Picks Volume 29 will contain everything in the archives from the next night’s show in Santa Barbara, which is the tail end of the second “Terrapin Station” as well as “Morning Dew,” “Sugar Magnolia” and “Johnny B. Goode.”