Both Revenant, the Nashville reissue label, and the late Fahey, one of the key figures in the Blues revival of the ’60s and a talented musician in his own right, deserve this award for any number of projects as well as just plain old lifetime achievement. But if one project epitomizes their dedication to the Blues it is their final collaboration — Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, an exhaustive seven-disc set released this year comprising everything Patton ever recorded, a disc of music by those whom he influenced, a disc of interviews about him, plus a reprint of Fahey’s seminal 1970 biography on the man who some consider the original Bluesman. One of the most complete portraits of an artist ever created.
