After The Ball Import by John Fahey

After The Ball Import

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After The Ball Import

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This was Fahey's second REPRISE album following OF RIVERS AND RELIGION. Those who know that album will want to have this one too. All the merits of RIVERS AND RELIGION are here....wonderful playing and glorious arrangements and production. Where RIVERS AND RELIGION was relaxed and mellow in mood, this album is more varied and, perhaps more memorable. Fahey plays solo on three tracks: the thoroughly characteristic HORSES with that muscular thumb work getting the album off to a flying start, a beautiful rendering of WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP, and the finest account of BEVERLY, a truly exceptional composition worth the purchase price on its own. Other tracks bring in a small band featuring clarinet, trumpet, trombone, mandolin, fiddle, guitars etc. We hear lovely arrangements of NEW ORLEANS SHUFFLE, I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE and AFTER THE BALL. BUCKTOWN STOMP, CANDY MAN and HAWAIIAN TWO-STEP (a familiar Fahey theme), feature strings without brass....a feast of acoustic fun! And this brings me to OM SHANTHI NORRIS, a truly lovely, wistful, nostalgic 6 minutes of sheer bliss, with Fahey's slide guitar singing the lovely theme (an Indian melody) over the most wonderful string arrangement, including plucked banjo and a gorgeous tremolo mandolin played by Allen Reuse. I think this is one of the most beautiful and captivating pieces of music I have heard. Any record with eight excellent tracks, and two tracks of outstanding perfection in BEVERLY and OM SHANTHI NORRIS has to have a 5 star recommendation. I can't see how anyone could fail to enjoy this honest, delightful record, full of melody, invention and first rate musicianship.

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