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Harry Taussig issued an obscure, privately pressed album of acoustic guitar instrumentals in 1965, Fate Is Only Once, that was much like <a href="spotify:artist:4js8BDiQwnHLlDmT1shPH7">John Fahey</a> in its combination of folk, blues, and stark Americana. Taussig, in fact, is just as obscure as the relatively unknown <a href="spotify:artist:1bB0hKohfWkczaTMQLQdlR">Robbie Basho</a> as <a href="spotify:artist:1bB0hKohfWkczaTMQLQdlR">Basho</a> is to <a href="spotify:artist:4js8BDiQwnHLlDmT1shPH7">Fahey</a>. The album was one of the most sought-after collector's items of American Primitive guitar music. The only other recordings that Taussig issued appeared on a 1967 compilation, Contemporary Guitar Spring '67, which as it happened also featured <a href="spotify:artist:4js8BDiQwnHLlDmT1shPH7">Fahey</a> (whose <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Takoma%22">Takoma</a> label issued the LP) and <a href="spotify:artist:1bB0hKohfWkczaTMQLQdlR">Basho</a>, as well as <a href="spotify:artist:0SEjW4NsEIkiSgpoxLuQCI">Max Ochs</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2gSskdDhLQCx3CQd6XKDhp">Bukka White</a>. Fate Is Only Once was eventually reissued on CD in 2006. In August of 2012, Taussig, after being endlessly prodded and encouraged by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Tompkins+Square+Records%22">Tompkins Square Records</a>' label boss Josh Rosenthal, released his follow-up, titled, appropriately, Fate Is Only Twice. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
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