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I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

John Fahey

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John Fahey
Age: 61 †
Born: 1939
Born: February 28
Died: 2001
Died: February 22
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Washington
District of Columbia
Company
Demos
Forget
Wasting
Thought
Commercial
Make
Companies
Time
Record
Understood
Nobody
Records

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