This weekend, the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, will host the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, the first and only festival dedicated exclusively to American-primitive guitar music. Takoma Park, a ...

John Fahey, 61, the Takoma Park native whose unorthodox and dazzling fingerpicking on the steel-string guitar helped spawn an acoustic blues revival in the 1960s and whose idiosyncratic compositions ...

You can’t talk about American Primitive without talking about John Fahey. And you can’t talk about John Fahey without talking about his hometown of Takoma Park. For Fahey, whose first recordings on ...