Label: Tompkins Square

なんと47年振りに録音された続編!!オリジナルは1965年にプライベート出版、アメリカン・プリミティブ ギター愛好家の間で長い間垂涎のコレクションとなっていた、米フォーク/ブルースギタリストHarry Taussigの幻の1st[Fate Is Only Once]。2006年にここTompkins Squareが再発、この人物の当時のプレイを収録した唯一の音源はジョン・フェイヒー、ロビー・バショー、ブッカ・ホワイトらも参加した1967年V.A[Contemporary Guitar - Spring '67]だけであった為、このリイシューは本当に偉業と言えるもの。なんと本作はその47年後に録音されていたという[Fate Is Only Twice]!! ユーモアと独創性はそのまま、オリジナルと変わらない冷静さと燃え上がるような演奏には脱帽。









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Released as a short-run private press LP in 1965, 'Fate Is Only Once' has long been a coveted collectible among American Primitive guitar enthusiasts. The album presages the broader movement. Acoustic musicians were still largely stuck in a rigid "Folk" mindset in 1965, and there are just not that many other examples of the exploratory guitar sounds found on 'Fate' during this time period. Alternating between haunting originals and jaunty blues-based traditional numbers, this absurdly rare LP was reissued by Tompkins Square in 2006. Taussig's only other recorded works appear on the long out-of-print Takoma compilation 'Contemporary Guitar Spring '67' alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Max Ochs and Bukka White. Taussig spent years as an educator, published instructional guitar books, and traveled extensively to photograph weird museums.

Amazingly, he returns with his first album in 47 years, appropriately titled 'Fate Is Only Twice'. The same stark, smoldering playing is evident, all the humor and inventiveness intact.