Amanda Petrusich writes about the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, a festival dedicated to the music of the American-primitive guitar player John Fahey.

John Fahey, 61, the Takoma Park native whose unorthodox and dazzling fingerpicking on the steel-string guitar helped spawn an acoustic blues revival in the 1960s and whose idiosyncratic ...

2001-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Salem, Ore.-- John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61 ...