John Fahey

John Fahey played solo acoustic guitar at the Record Plant for fifty-eight minutes on September 9, 1973, and Tom Donahue put the set on KSAN with no band and no rock-radio framing around it. Fahey was already an influential, idiosyncratic figure in American primitive guitar, blending blues, folk, and classical technique into a style with little precedent on rock radio. The broadcast is a rare instance of the KSAN Record Plant series stepping outside its usual rock and blues lineup to give an uninterrupted solo set, and stands as one of the quieter, more unusual entries in the series.