[3] Toronto Star stated that "he's been compared to Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, but blues singer-songwriter Julian Fauth is a true original".
[6] The young Fauth was further inspired hearing radio programmes including work by Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell and Bumble Bee Slim.
[3] Along with Ken Yoshioka (harmonica) and Mike Robertson (steel guitar), Fauth formed the trio Dark Holler, named after a Clarence Ashley tune.
His follow-up was Ramblin' Son (2008), which saw original material interspersed with a cover version of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's "Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down", and rearrangements of Fats Waller's "Hopeless Love Affair", Guitar Slim's "Done Got Over That" and the Carter Family's "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)".
[4][11] Prior to this, Fauth played the piano on Harmonica Shah's 2006 album, Listen at Me Good, as part of a guest list that included Mel Brown and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.
It was a black and white documentary film, incorporating concert footage both of Fauth at the Winterfolk Festival in Toronto, and the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, along with interviews.
Another Electro-Fi Records release, the issue contained tracks by Bobby Dean Blackburn, Curley Bridges, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, and Fauth.
[16] In June that year, Fauth again supplied guest piano work, along with Jack de Keyzer's guitar, to Harmonica Shah, this time for the latter's album, If You Live to Get Old, You Will Understand.