Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes

Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes
Cover of the first edition
Studio album by
Released1963
Recorded1962 in Adelphi, MD and 1963 in Berkeley, CA
GenreAmerican Primitivism
LabelTakoma
John Fahey chronology
Blind Joe Death
(1959)
Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes
(1963)
The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites
(1964)
Alternative Cover
Cover of the 1967 stereo edition of the LP

Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes is a 1963 album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Various sources show either a 1963 or 1964 original release. It was Fahey's second release and the first to gain a national distributor.