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Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years, 1958-1965
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  • Summary: The five-disc set collects together 115 remastered tracks from John Fahey's time with the Fonotone label.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Nov 23, 2011
    100
    A rich exploration of Appalachian roots. [25 Nov 2011, p.71]
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  2. Pitchfork
    Nov 14, 2011
    95
    Fahey was a restless listener, tinkerer, thinker, and player--a combination that makes this set fascinating both as a history book and a lifetime listening indulgence.
  3. AllMusic
    Nov 14, 2011
    80
    Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years, 1958-1965 is a massive John Fahey document that was a full decade in the making by Dean Blackwood of Revenant, guitarist Glenn Jones, and Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital.
  4. The Quietus
    Nov 14, 2011
    80
    Simply, we are left with more evidence of a true American original, who was also as important in his own way as Harry Smith or Alan Lomax and other such college-educated curatorial spirits.
  5. Spin
    Nov 14, 2011
    70
    This set--six meticulously documented hours recorded before his first proper album--is a progress chart.
  6. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2011
    60
    I found myself wishing [the booklet] was three times longer and the music three CDs less. [Nov 2011, p.60]
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