The Voice Of The Turtle (1968)

Fahey geldt als zeer invloedrijk folkgitarist, maar verwacht hier geen straight-ahead akoestische folkplaat. Het is een collage-achtig geheel, waar naast knap gitaarspel ook vervreemdende psychedelische passages zijn te horen. Freakfolk avant la lettre dus in feite. "This primarily contains duets with various other artists (incl. overdubs with his own pseudonym, "Blind Joe Death"). This quite obscure early effort is both listenable and wildly eclectic, going from scratchy emulations of early blues 78s and country fiddle tunes to haunting guitar-flute combinations and eerie ragas. "A Raga Called Pat, Part III & IV" is a particularly ambitious piece, its disquieting swooping slide and brief bits of electronic white noise reverb veering into experimental psychedelia. Most of this is pretty traditional and acoustic in tone, however, though it has the undercurrent of dark, uneasy tension that gives much of Fahey's '60s material its intriguing combination of meditation and restlessness." (R. Unterberger, Allmusic)