For me just about any Fahey is great Fahey. (I don't much care for his version of "Twilight Time" but his post-Takoma albums tend to get a bit of a bum rap.) One of the most "experimental" records he did early on was The Great Dan Bernadino Birthday Party. Lots of tape experiments and such. The sound quality on that album is NOT the greatest however. A better choice, along with Requia, IMO is Days Have Gone By, which besides some tape manipulations (mostly for atmosphere) includes some of his wildest work in open tunings as well as traditional stuff like Grandfather's Clock. It's one of my favorites. John Fahey Visits Washington DC is a great record too. The more outside stuff on that record was the result of Fahey's encounter with Bola Sete's GREAT album Ocean Waves (Fahey released the album on Takoma actually). JFVWDC may be hard to find on CD--it was re-released by Allegiance Records a number of years ago. Amoeba in SF had it the last time I was there. Check out The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites as well as America (his best in my opinion). Both were re-released by Fantasy recently. Of his MUCH later work, most of it on Fender Telecaster (I believe) rather than acoustic: I remember being impressed by City of Refuge, and The Epiphany of Glenn Jones. These records (and other from City of Refuge on) are the REALLY outside Fahey works, way different from his work of 1950-90. I recently read an old interview in which he said this was the kind of music he wanted to play all along but didn't have the guts to do. I think it may have alienated many long-time Fahey fans, even those who liked the tape manipulation things he did in the 1960s. I remember it being very dark, bleak even. I guess I'm going to have to pull a couple of the newer things out tonight... Jerry Caleb and Sondra wrote: "Requia" is one of the neatest fahey albums. it has a lot of field recordings and tapes and record collages on it while he's playing. that was one of the records that got me into experimental folk and drone, and even country and blues.. (where before i was more into harsh everything). I'd love to hear more experimental Fahey recommendations myself. So i keep hearing how great "trasmorfigation of blind joe death" and "death chants and military waltzes" are. (titles not recalled correctly, i'm sure). what are those like? From: "Caleb T. Deupree" <cdeupree@erinet.com> Subject: experimental late fahey The December Wire Tapper includes a gorgeous electric John Fahey cut that sounds like nothing else from him that I've heard. According to the notes, it's from a forthcoming Revenant release. I followed him through the early Takoma/Vanguard years, but my tastes changed and I didn't pay much attention to him (or any other acoustic music) after the early 1970s. We picked up his album Rain Forests & Oceans (with an interesting two-guitar version of Layla), but I'd be interested in reading about Fahey's experimental side in other more recent releases.