Frank Fairfield is old school. His pocket watch is set to about 100 years back in time. With a banjo and a fiddle, he busks on the street and later congregates with the Los Angeles record collector mafia to watch piano rolls played by ghosts. He’s stepping indoors for a residency at the Redwood with his friend Blind Boy Paxton, who he describes as ‘the face of God’ on a guitar. This interview by Daiana Feuer.














