He came from Takoma Park, the town over from where I grew up and was something of a legend around the D.C. area. My chums and I struggled to learn the tunes off that Blind Joe Death LP and later on he rerecorded a lot of that early stuff on American Primitive Guitar which became a touchstone for me. That album was was so pristeen and gritty at the same time and fortunately Mr. Fahey published a book of tabs to accompany it, which contained a lot of his funny,
offbeat writing. I saw him once in the 80's at the Cellar Door in D.C., he seemed to be in his cups and didn't say a word but his playing was superb.