Pitchfork.com writes: “The liner notes for Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You– the complete recordings guitarist John Fahey made for the tiny but crucial Fonotone label between 1958 and 1965– comprise an 88-page book, bound in beautifully toned, dense cardboard. (…) Actually, Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is not just for Fahey zealots. It’s for anyone interested in the story of American music, from its Appalachian string bands and mean-moaning Delta blues singers to the hymns sung from its church pews and the country-rock anthems soon enough crafted by its hippies. But Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is not only the story of the musician John Fahey, it’s also the story of the songs that have become crucial to his country, a place that Fahey explored from one end (he was raised in Maryland) to the other (he lived in Hawaii at one point and died in Oregon). Somewhat comparable to the sprawling ethnomusicological work of Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, Art Rosenbaum, Nick Perls, and others like them, Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is a rich overview of America’s musical bedrock– only here, it’s told through the hard-won, fast-paced development of a guitarist who, in turn, changed the way future players could consider their instrument. A must-have collection of lore, music, and history, it’s a unified, brilliant, and often very challenging archive.”