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An extremely rare album of instrumental guitar, originally released as a private pressing in 1965, (while Taussig was living in "Beserkley", right on the cusp of the sixties revolution) and then forgotten until the album was finally saved from the black hole of music with a re-release on CD in 2006. While this album is a faithful slice of American roots, folk, traditional rags and blues, Taussig is not a mere student of these styles, rather he brings a contemporary approach and a darkly sarcastic humour to the music that is all his own. In the vein of guitarists like John Fahey, Taussig is extremely proficient on his instrument (he even wrote a book called "Instrumental Techniques of American Folk Guitar"), but never bound by mere technique. An important piece in the puzzle of the American folk revival. This is its first ever vinyl reissue.
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Some things in this world are lucky enough to age with dignity...."Fate Is Only Once" belongs to that cathegory....One of these legendary albums that I only dreamt of ever getting the possibility to hear... the same as with some Rosmini and Suni McGrath things... And here it is again....an enchanting little time-capsule that takes you back to those days when Fahey had just recorded "Tranfiguration..." and this type of guitar music was the least to say "obscure"... (It is just impossible not to mention Fahey when talking about these things) And to me this album is a reminder that I somewhere down in the seventies had come to the conclusion that acoustic steel string playing could be easily divided into two groups**....with Fahey as main exponent of one of groups, that became known as "Takoma School"...and Stefan Grossman as exponent for the other group..."Ragtime Pickers"...this perhaps being an unnecessary strict generalisation from me....but I still hold on to that "theory" today,thirtyfive years later! And this album to me represents something of a "missing link" in that evoluton of guitar music! To try to explain what I mean: I did a little experiment and set my cd-player in sequence track 1-3-5-7-9-11 and then I did the same for tracks 2-4-6-8-10-12. And an amazing thing happened! The record divided into two records! The first being a pre-Grossman record of "ragtime-picking" music, of course very much influenced by Rev Gary Davis....very much the same as would one decade later appear on the "Kicking Mule" label. Perhaps a little more primitive than those wizards that would emerge later in the "ragtime style", but considering it was 1965 it is pleasant enough...and by the way National Ragtime Stomp seems performed on a National Steel Guitar! The other one then appearing to be an early "Takoma"...Seemingly heavily influenced by Fahey's approach to composition and performing. Noteworthy are Sugar Babe, performed on 12-string and based upon Elisabeth Cotten. Also worth mentioning are Rondo To Death and Dorian Sonata...very much in the Fahey vein. Taussig was included with two compositions in the "impossible to find" Takoma Guitar Sampler from 1966 and Dorian Sonata was included in a recent guitar anthology, Imaginational Anthem. Otherwise nothing seems to be known of his further musical career...if he had any! This album is a good representative from those early years when acoustic steel-string guitar got established as an art form in itself...other than accompanying more or less phony "folk-songs"...and as stated above I find it as an early "missing link" between "Takoma" and "Kicking Mule".... And considered 1965 and all that stuff; the remastering is well done so the sound quality is surpisingly good. Recommended for anybody who wants to dig deeper into acoustic steel-string guitar! **Note. In fact there is also a group which can be defined as "American Raga", with exponents such as Robbie Basho and Peter Walker...but that is another disussion to which I maybe can come back some other day
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