the Blind Joe Death albums and Death Chants & military waltzes are more stright-up fingerpicking. it's amazing and beautiful stuff. on the more experimental side, Voice of the Turtle has some weird collage type stuff on it, and the relatively recent John Fahey Trio album was pretty experimental: lots of soundscape and washes of sound. the album on Tim Kerr, City of Refuge, was almost industrial sounding. of these, i'd start with Voice of the Turtle. also, the recent reissues of the Takoma stuff (which are all quite excellent) all have reproductions of Fahey's rambling pseudo-academic/total bullshit liner notes which greatly enhance his persona. good stuff sean "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? 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. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now