Awards & Winners

John Fahey

Date of Birth 28-February-1939
Place of Birth Takoma Park
(Montgomery County, Maryland, Prince George's County, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Guitarist
John Aloysius Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian music into his Å“uvre. He spent many of his later years in poverty and poor health, but enjoyed a minor career resurgence with a turn towards the more explicitly avant-garde, and created a series of abstract paintings during the last years of his life. He died in 2001 from complications from heart surgery. In 2003, he was ranked 35th in the Rolling Stone "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list.

Awards by John Fahey

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1997


Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
Honored for : Anthology of American Folk Music (Harry Smith ed.)
(Album Notes Writer)

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes Anthology of American Folk Music (Harry Smith ed.)