Fahey john

Forgive the constant references to domestic business at Uncut these past few days, but it's been hard to review much music when we've been in the throes of moving office. We're now firmly established in our luxurious new building just behind the Tate Modern, and have spent the morning trying to understand the new phones and get used to the decor: roughly MODE magazine, redesigned by IKEA, but a damn sight nicer than our old place.

Guitar legend's moving valediction

Solid airs: unplugged hits and rarities amplify 
jazz-folkie’s human side

Alt.country trailblazers back catalogue lovingly curated

As chosen by the festival's co-founder and curator Simon Taffe

The folk mystic's finest hour revisited

This must be the place! Talking Heads, Kim Gordon, the Waterboys and Phosphorescent star in our latest issue

Talking Heads, Bob Marley, The Waterboys, Kim Gordon, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Phosphorescent, Michael Moorcock and more

Plus Phosophorescent, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Mud, a free 15-track CD!

Inspired doodles from an English folk guitar master