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The Enduring Influence of John Fahey’s Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, 60 Years On

As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today

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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding

Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.

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