Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958–1965)

Compilation by John Fahey

Released 11 October 2011

Tracklist

  • 1
    Interview With John Fahey on Fonotone Records and Joe Bussard
    2:59
  • 2
    Franklin Blues
    3:15
  • 3
    Smoketown Strut
    3:14
  • 4
    Steel Guitar Rag
    3:24
  • 5
    Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues
    3:31
  • 6
    Buck Dancer’s Choice
    3:19
  • 7
    Medley: Pretty Polly / Shortnin’ Bread
    3:40
  • 8
    Barbara Namkin Blues
    3:13
  • 9
    In Christ There Is No East or West
    3:57
  • 10
    Stak ’o Lee Blues (Louis Collins)
    3:24
  • 11
    The Transcendental Waterfall
    3:01
  • 12
    John Henry
    3:09
  • 13
    Over the Hill Blues
    3:57
  • 14
    St. Louis Blues
    4:06
  • 15
    On Doing an Evil Deed Blues
    3:29
  • 16
    Reinumeration Blues
    2:08
  • 17
    The Transcendental Waterfall
    5:09
  • 18
    Mississippi Boweavil Blues
    2:46
  • 19
    Green River Blues
    2:59
  • 20
    Over the Hill Blues
    2:44
  • 21
    Libba’s Rag
    3:08
  • 22
    Chris’s Rag
    3:14
  • 23
    St. Louis Tickle
    3:12
  • 24
    Pat Sullivan’s Blues
    3:24
  • 25
    Blind Blues (Martin’s Esso Blues)
    2:41
  • 26
    Poor Boy Blues
    3:36
  • 27
    Long Time Town Blues
    3:29
  • 28
    Gulf Port Island Blues
    3:32
  • 29
    Blind Thomas Blues, Part 1
    3:20
  • 30
    Blind Thomas Blues, Part 2
    3:24
  • 31
    New Newport News Blues #2
    2:56
  • 32
    Wanda Russell’s Blues
    3:20
  • 33
    Going Away to Leave You Blues
    3:13
  • 34
    Lay My Burden Down
    2:28
  • 35
    Hill High Blues
    3:06
  • 36
    John Henry
    2:54
  • 37
    Paint Brush Blues
    3:18
  • 38
    Blind Thomas Blues, Part 3
    3:11
  • 39
    Blind Thomas Blues, Part 4
    3:29
  • 40
    You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
    3:00
  • 41
    Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed
    3:11
  • 42
    Banty Rooster Blues
    3:13
  • 43
    Tom Rushen Blues
    3:35
  • 44
    Yallaboosha River Blues
    3:43
  • 45
    You Gonna Miss Me
    3:20
  • 46
    Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Part 1
    3:17
  • 47
    Wissenschaftlich River Blues, Part 2
    3:28
  • 48
    Zekiah Swamp Blues
    3:25
  • 49
    Nobody’s Business
    3:12
  • 50
    Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Part 1
    3:09
  • 51
    Going Crabbing Talking Blues, Part 2
    3:15
  • 52
    You Better Get Right So God Can Use You
    3:27
  • 53
    Weissman Blues
    3:06
  • 54
    Dasein River Blues
    3:12
  • 55
    Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Part 1
    3:11
  • 56
    Racemic Tartrate River Blues, Part 2
    3:13
  • 57
    Smoky Ordinary Blues (Dance of the Inhabitants)
    3:01
  • 58
    I Shall Not Be Moved
    3:06
  • 59
    Old Country Rock
    3:11
  • 60
    Little Hat Blues
    3:19
  • 61
    Guitar Solo Title Unknown (Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent)
    2:57
  • 62
    Guitar Solo Title Unknown (Night Train to Valhalla)
    3:27
  • 63
    Some Summer Day
    3:47
  • 64
    The Langley Two‐Step
    1:37
  • 65
    Dream of the Origin of the French Broad River
    2:53
  • 66
    Saint John’s Hornpipe
    1:12
  • 67
    Sail Away Ladies
    1:16
  • 68
    Dreaming Under the B & O Trestle
    3:19
  • 69
    900 Miles
    4:36
  • 70
    Prince George’s Dance
    2:59
  • 71
    Improvisation for Flute and Guitar
    3:33
  • 72
    Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (Brenda’s Blues)
    1:40
  • 73
    Brenda’s Blues
    0:46
  • 74
    Buck Dancer’s Choice
    1:29
  • 75
    Night Train to Valhalla
    4:22
  • 76
    In the Pines
    2:49
  • 77
    Pretty Polly
    3:31
  • 78
    Take This Hammer
    4:09
  • 79
    Yazoo Basin Blues
    6:38
  • 80
    Stomping Tonight on the (Old) Pennsylvania / Alabama Border
    5:44
  • 81
    Smoky Ordinary Blues (Dance of the Inhabitants)
    2:22
  • 82
    Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxent
    3:17
  • 83
    Bean Vine Blues (Pea Vine Blues)
    2:18
  • 84
    Green Blues
    2:46
  • 85
    Stone Pony
    2:49
  • 86
    Dorothy / Calvert Street Blues (Brenda’s Blues)
    0:57
  • 87
    Days Have Gone By
    3:11
  • 88
    Some Summer Day
    3:47
  • 89
    Texas & Pacific Blues (My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It)
    2:09
  • 90
    John Henry Blues
    2:37
  • 91
    Brenda’s Blues
    1:49
  • 92
    St. Patrick’s Hymn
    1:52
  • 93
    Bicycle Built for Two
    1:24
  • 94
    The Blues You Saved for Me
    1:35
  • 95
    House Carpenter
    1:30
  • 96
    How Long
    2:25
  • 97
    The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California
    4:32
  • 98
    You Take the E Train (The Last Steam Engine Train)
    2:33
  • 99
    I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
    3:14
  • 100
    How Long
    2:11
  • 101
    O Jesus I Have Promised
    3:06
  • 102
    [untitled]
    1:09
  • 103
    Medley: Untitled / O Jesus I Have Promised
    3:24
  • 104
    I Am a Rake and Rambling Boy
    1:46
  • 105
    Medley: Goodbye Old Paint / Whoopee Ti‐Yi‐Yo, Git Along Little Doggies
    1:25
  • 106
    Goodbye Old Paint
    1:00
  • 107
    Simple Gifts
    0:53
  • 108
    [untitled]
    1:37
  • 109
    Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
    1:41
  • 110
    Goodbye Old Paint
    1:16
  • 111
    Western Medley
    6:01
  • 112
    Durgan Park
    2:06
  • 113
    The Bitter Lemon
    2:46
  • 114
    Old Southern Medley (fragment)
    0:12
  • 115
    Bottleneck Blues
    2:59

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