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Harry Taussig // Fate Is Only Twice LP

Harry Taussig // Fate Is Only Twice LP

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American primitive writer Harry Taussig, who has also announced on John Fahey's label Takama, has released his first new album in 47 years on Tomkins Square, a label specializing in playing guitar in the country.

Contains 10 pastoral country folk songs.

Tompkins Square Other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Tompkins Square releases available at Tobira. 

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Tompkins Square:

"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 apparent, all the humor and evidenceness intact. "

Artist: Harry Taussig

Label: Label: Tompkins square

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American primitive writer Harry Taussig, who has also announced on John Fahey's label Takama, has released his first new album in 47 years on Tomkins Square, a label specializing in playing guitar in the country.

Contains 10 pastoral country folk songs.

Tompkins Square Other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more Tompkins Square releases available at Tobira. 

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Tompkins Square:

"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 apparent, all the humor and evidenceness intact. "

Artist: Harry Taussig

Label: Label: Tompkins square