So I thunk to myself, “There’s gotta be some folk guy who shuts up and plays.” I googled "best folk guitarist" and discovered John Fahey. It was exactly what I needed:
Recently I wanted to listen to something that did not have any lyrics and was not classical music. Pop music was out since pop, in all its varieties, is devoted to the lyric, and especially to the lyricist or singer. Aside from a few half-century old, two-minute tone poems about surfing or a few drum solos buried deep on the B-sides of Led Zeppelin albums, pop is chit-chat. I love you, I don’t like this town, I am an excellent rapper who mainly raps about how other rappers are rather bad at rapping, etc.
So I thunk to myself, “There’s gotta be some folk guy who shuts up and plays.” I googled "best folk guitarist" and discovered John Fahey. It was exactly what I needed:
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