John Faheyโ€™s reputation rests on hisโ€™60s recordings, elaborate explorations of acoustic folk/blues that erased distinctions between roots music and the avant garde. By the โ€™90s, however, Fahey had become disgruntled with his legacy. He switched to electric guitar, dabbled in industrial murk and seemed studiously indelicate. Red Cross, finished just before his death in 2001, marks a surprising reconciliation with his old style. Faheyโ€™s playing remains hesitant, but for contemplative rather than alienating ends, as he turns uptown standards by Irving Berlin and the Gershwins into spectral, rustic laments. A bewitching last testament.