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Selections from When the Catfish Are In Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey by Ed Frankel

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Born in 1939 in Maryland, John Fahey pioneered the use of traditional country and blues finger picking to showcase the acoustic steel string guitar as a solo instrument that could play a mix of traditional and non-traditional musical genres. He collaged ideas associated with Bartok, Charles Ives, Indian and Gamelan

Farbende by Ed Frankel

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The iron treadles rock and doven
in the flatiron shadows, pressed air and piece work.
Hungry hands move like birds.
Every week the girl who makes the least gets fired.

Chalk It Up To Love by Ed Frankel

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And then, hooked up to tubes and oxygen,
She was screaming, catch me Joey, I’m falling!
I picked her up, the heft and weight
Of rabbit bones wrapped in silk,
I’ve got you Rose I’ve got you.

Ed Frankel: Dark Parlors Remind Me Of The Spanish Civil War

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Dark Parlors Remind Me Of The Spanish Civil War

Ed Frankel: Guelaguetza I

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Guelaguetza I