I Remember Blind Joe Death

You’ll Find Her Name Written There: By Bill Monroe; On and on she’ll walk this earth
Her face like a beautiful flower
But all alone is a marble stone
You’ll find her name written there; Her new voice rings where the angels sing
Her voice so pure and so fair
And if you’ll look in the Heavenly book
You’ll find her name written there; I’m all alone since the call of fate
Left me in deepest despair
And if you’ll wait at the pearly gate
You’ll find her name written there; I’ll breathe her name into the air
It goes and I know not where
But if you look in the heart of a friend
You’ll find her name written there
The Minutes Seem Like Hours, The Hours Seem Like Days: Title (at least) from Willie Brown’s Future Blues (1930).; Can’t tell my future, and I can’t tell my past
Can’t tell my future, and I can’t tell my past
Lord, it seems like every minute sure gonna be my last; The minutes seems like hours and hours seems like days
The minutes seems like hours and hours seems like days
And it seems like my woman oughta stop her lowdown ways.; The woman I love now, she’s five feet from the ground.
I said, the woman I love now, Lordy, five feet from the ground.
And she’s tailor made, ain’t no hand me down
Are You From Dixie?: trad. arr. John Fahey/Tortoise Music; Hello there neighbour, how do you do
There’s something I’d like to say of you
You’re from my own land, my sunny homeland
Tell me is it true?; Are you from Dixie? I said from Dixie
Where the fields of cotton beckon to me; Hello how do you feel, I’m glad to see you
Here’s the friends I waited to see
If you’re from Alabama, Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line; Then you’re from Dixie, hurray for Dixie
Cause I’m from Dixie too; Cf versions by the Blue Sky Boys, Grandpa Jones, the Prairie Ramblers, and so on.
A Minor Blues: trad. arr. John Fahey/Tortoise Music
Steel Guitar Rag: trad. arr. John Fahey/Tortoise Music; Many people have recorded versions of this one, originally committed to vinyl by Sylvester Weaver – Spade Cooley, Merle Travis, Jimmie Tarlton, Bob Wills, and so forth.
Nightmare/Summertime: Artie Shaw & George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward/Chappell & Co. & Gershwin Publ. Corp.; Eli Siegel, American poet and critic, recalls:; "The composition Nightmare by the late Artie Shaw wowed me when I first heard it as a teenager living in the Bronx. It was on a big band radio show. The announcer would come on and say, 'Now, live from the Blue Room of the Hotel Lincoln, the music of Artie Shaw and his orchestra' – and the band would come in with the opening bars of Nightmare. Hearing that intense, heavy, unrelenting beat, and Shaw on the clarinet seeming to cry out, I would get goose bumps – and I still do!."
Let Me Call You Sweetheart: Leo Friedman, Beth Slater Whitson/Shapiro-Bernstein & Shawnee Press, arr. John Fahey/Tortoise Music; Longing for you all the while, more and more
Longing for the sunny smile, I adore;
Birds are singing far and near, roses blooming ev’rywhere
You, alone, my heart can cheer; you, just you; No more! That’s enough of that!
Unknown Tango: Bola Sete’s title for this, which he plays on Ocean Vol 2, is Jogada.
Gaucho: By Bola Sete (from the incomparable Ocean) Elements of this composition were introduced into “Christmas Fantasy” on JF’s 1975 Xmas album.