He used a traditional guitar style to play modern-based compositions in an extended way. And his liner notes were way cool. ' The press garnered by Death Chants was enough to get Fahey his first paying gig--a weeklong engagement at Boston's Odyssey Coffeehouse in the summer of '65.'' In his 1992 article ``Reinventing the Steel'' for Acoustic Guitar, Dale Miller described the liner notes that Fahey began including on his releases as ``hilarious yet profound and somewhat disturbing phony folklorical ramblings that spoofed the pedantic notes on many folk releases of the day.''
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