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    A torch worth carrying

    Feb 11, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ART DUDLEY

    THIS ISSUE: New LP reissues from Analogue Productions, Blue Rose Music, and Mobile Fidelity.

    In the January 2020 I described my transformation from John Fahey skeptic to John Fahey fan; suffice it to say, the late guitarist was far from the only musical artist whose work I came to enjoy only after a number of failed attempts. Another was the English band Yes, which I saw in concert in 1977, at New York’s Madison Square Garden: I

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