The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album
by John Fahey

The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album by John Fahey
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 65,137th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 10 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (529th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (3,518th)
Award Best albums of all time (65,137th)

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The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album is ranked 17th best out of 25 albums by John Fahey on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Fahey is Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) which is ranked number 2044 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 805.

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Overall rank: 65,137th | 1960s rank: 3,518th | 1968 rank: 529th

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74/100 (from 10 votes)
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01/14/2026 20:48 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  8,04670/100
 
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04/19/2025 09:54 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,92164/100
 
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12/20/2024 01:40 teague  Ratings distribution  4,33178/100
 
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08/11/2022 01:36 Hayden  Ratings distribution  7,53272/100
 
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03/02/2022 04:04 Taosjohn  Ratings distribution  85069/100

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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.7.

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From 03/02/2022 04:16 | #282110
Christmas is a terrible social problem-- one needs music that will not drown out dinner parties, will seem seasonal to children and won't overwork the intelligence of non musical aunts and in-laws, and yet will not insult the intelligence of actual musicians in the crowd.

This is one A+ chunk of the time that needs filling,,,
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