Following a 1994 entry on Fahey in '' Spin '' magazine 's spin-off '' Alternative Record Guide '' , Fahey learned that he now had a whole new audience , which included the alternative bands Sonic Youth and Cul de Sac and the avant-garde musician Jim O'Rourke . A lengthy article in '' Spin '' magazine by Byron Coley , " The Persecutions and Resurrections of Blind Joe Death " , combined with a two-disc retrospective , '' The Return of the Repressed '' , to revive Fahey 's career . New releases started to appear rapidly , alongside reissues , by Fantasy Records , of all the early Takoma releases . O'Rourke went on to produce a Fahey album , '' Womblife '' , in 1997 . That same year , Fahey recorded an album with Cul de Sac , '' The Epiphany of Glenn Jones '' , named for the band 's lead guitarist . Gone were the melodic dreaminess and folk-based meditations of the 1960s and 70s , which Fahey had later described as " cosmic sentimentalism " . With characteristic wit , he once said of his style , " How can I be a folk ? I 'm from the suburbs you know . " Fahey 's passion for traditional folklore did not subside . After the death of his father in 1995 , Fahey used his inheritance to form another label , Revenant Records , to focus on reissuing obscure recordings of early blues , old-time music , and anything else that took his fancy . In 1997 , Revenant issued its first crop of releases , including albums by the British guitarist Derek Bailey , the American pianist Cecil Taylor , Jim O'Rourke , bluegrass pioneers The Stanley Brothers , old-time banjo legend Dock Boggs , Rick Bishop of Sun City Girls , and the slide guitarist Jenks " Tex " Carman . The label 's most famous release would prove to be '' Screamin ' and Hollerin ' the Blues : The Worlds of Charley Patton '' , a seven-disc retrospective of Charley Patton and his contemporaries . It won three Grammy awards in 2003 . Fahey , for his part , won a Grammy in 1997 for his contributions to the liner notes of Revenant 's '' Anthology of American Folk Music , Vol . 4 ''
Grammy in 1997
40th Annual Grammy Awards
John Fahey (musician)