America
by John Fahey
John Fahey bestography
America is ranked 7th 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 2041 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 806.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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America track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/15/2026 16:34 |  CellarDoor | 8,313 | 79/100 | |
| 02/10/2026 18:54 |  DommeDamian | 7,330 | 49/100 | |
| 01/03/2026 10:51 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,853 | 70/100 | |
| 07/03/2024 16:02 |  colonelchibbers | 2,954 | 77/100 | |
| 05/07/2024 16:15 | LosWochos | 46,869 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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Innovative and original Mr. Fahey is a guitar virtuoso. A must listen to record.
antiloopje 01/29/2014 12:16 | #101825
Oh. So this is how you turn acoustic guitar into an interesting and listenable experience? I'd never imagined that was possible with acoustic guitar
One of John Fahey's best releases. It was originally meant to be a double album, and reissues have re-included a bunch of wonderful tracks that were left out on the first release. The version of America on this is possibly my favourite moment in his entire career.
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