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I was referring more to the fact that Fahey, in 1959 was playing stuff that no-one else was doing, pre Beatles, pre Rolling Stones, pre John Mayall, pre British Blues Boom. This album was recorded in the year that Buddy Holly died yet sounds and feels as if it could have been recorded last week.
Alexis Korner was recording a bit earlier but its does not sound contemporary in the slightest. Fahey was taking folk, bluegrass, country and blues and making it his own. This album was self released too.
Johnson, I will say controversially, was following the trends, not doing anything original or groundbreaking, whereas John Fahey was absorbing all this old music, much of it pre-dating Johnson, modifying it and releasing it to an unsuspecting world.
The world probably wasn't ready for it for another ten years mind.
The Complete Recordings would, probably, be my only record if that's all I was allowed but Blind Joe Death is utterly amazing.