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- UNISSUED STUDIO SESSIONS 1977
- Sandy on Earth
- Originally titled "The Nut House".
Rerecorded (or not) for "God Time &
Causality" 12 years later. By which I mean that on
the unreleased version we have these little occasional
electronic effects, reverb and echo and such, which
really add a tinge of excitement. Not that the
unvarnished "Let It Be" version isn't a major
classic.
- Bossa Nova Song 1 & 2
- Elder-Z-Travels
Parts of this recycled into "Melody McBad"
- Melody Brennan
- Hare Krishna Song 1 & 2
The main theme of this drop-dead brilliant 18 minute
piece was used in "Charlie Becker's Meditation"
on "Railroad". We tried at various times to get
Fahey to a) remember this piece, and b) having remembered
it, get it released. As you will realise, to no avail.
- Melody McBad/Portland Cement Factory/Funeral Song for
John Hurt
Rerecorded (or not) for "God Time &
Causality" 12 years later.
- Unknown Song Takes 1 & 2
- Unknown Bossa Nova
- Unknown Song/Nut House
- Lover Come Back to Me
- Lover Come Back to Me/I'll See You in my Dreams
- Unknown Song
- Rubber Dolly
- The Nut House (part)
- THREE LIVE SONGS circa 1976-77
- Irish setter/The Nut House/Ann Arbor
- Unknown Song
Contains elements of "Beverley" and 2 other
(unidentified) songs but mainly sounds like an
improvisation
- Intro to "Wine and Roses"
- LIVE AT MR BROWN'S, COLUMBUS OHIO (June 1978)
- "That Part of the Show's Over"
- Part of a concert recorded at Mr Brown's, Columbus,
Ohio in June 1978. In the first half of the performance
Fahey races through some splendid medleys lasting 20
minutes each. He does the business, he gets on with it,
he delivers the goods. However, after the first half
comes the second half. Here's a transcript:
- JF: Now they must turn over the house, in other words
all of you have to leave and pay to come back again
regardless of whether only I play or both people play.
This is the standard policy of the clubs on the circuit
in the United States -- I beg your pardon?
- Audience: Encore, encore!
- I just played the encore, baby, you wanna hear me
again you stay and pay your money for the second set!
- JF plays six more tunes without a break and without
talking. The rowdy student audience applauds.
- JF: Woh, thank you ver' much, one more li'l drink of
brandy [beginning to speak in a mock French accent] -- I
just wajnt to 'ave one more shot of the brandy but there
was none 'ere... Unfortunately it is all GONE but what
can one do...
- He bums a cigarette off someone in the crowd then
continues, still in the French accent.
- JF: Now I will play. I will conclude this evening's
performance with the song we used to sing ice-skating in
the winter going to see a girl-friend at McConnellsville
[?] up the [indistinguishable] river.., and by the way if
anyone wants to see me tomorrow night, when I am more
sober or more drunk as I am, I will be in Dayton, Ohio,
on June 20th - is that tomorrow night? Yes, ah, at
Gillie's...can't read the address, yes, Dayton, Ohio but
I can't read the name of the street, and then on June
22nd I am in Milwaukee. And now a sacred song from my
youth skating up the [indistinguishable] river in
midwinter to see my girlfriend Gretchen Hosenfat... I
don't remember exactly what it was but for God's sake
does someone have an ASHTRAY? I don't wa nna burn the
stage... ASHTRAY!~ Thank you, thank you, let us have a
hand for the young man, the cute young man, ha ha ha
ha... ah, but have you ever made it with an elephant? And
now, the Ice Skating Song concluded by two spirituals---
hey GANG!
- The first part of this song starts quietly, just gimme
one minute of relative quiet, not absolute quiet, just a
little bit of quiet, so that it can build up
dramatically, so you can imagine skating up the
[indistinguishable] river, ha ha ha ha haaaah!
- JF plays "The Grand Finale".
- JF: [Yelling now] You've got to sing "You've Got
to Walk that Lonesome Valley'. I can't sing
- He proves this by howling the first couple of lines.
He exhorts the audience to join in. Howls out the rest of
the song. The most painful recording in the whole Fahey
discography. He slides into a frantic "Grand
Finale". The crowd yells.
- JF : [The ridiculous French accent returns] Thank you
very much. I have enjoyed playing here this evening. I
will not play any more, but if someone wants to sing a
couple more hymns.., so I wonder if we could have a
couple of requests for hymns we could sing together.
- Audience: "Knott's Berry Farm" "Oh Lord
I'm Discouraged"!
- JF: You wanna sing "Lord I'm Discouraged",
you came up here and I'll play it and you sing it. Come
on, come on. And where the hell's the bartender with the
brandy? Come on, man, you wanna sing "Lord I'm
Discouraged"?
- Man in audience: I can't even remember the first line.
- JF: I'm tired...
- Flamboyant amateur in audience commences singing.
- JF: That's not the first line, that's the verse.
- Audience : "In Christ there is no East or
West"
- JF: No, no, let's sing spirituals. I have the American
copyright on that. Come, come, let's sing some ooooold
country hymns.
- Audience [satirically]: "Onward Christian
Soldiers"!
- JF: Nah, corny, corny, corny. Country hymns, country
hymns, man. Okay. We have a young man here who wishes to
lead us in a hymn. What is the name of this? An old Negro
spiritual, good one.., what are the words? Oh, oh yeah,
it's ca lled "I'll Meet you on the Other
Shore". Now you must keep strict rhythm young man.
Let us have the hand for the young man who is going to
try to lead us in an old, a very very old Negro country
spiritual.
- Young Man (rather rudely): I don't know if I can keep
it as strict as you. I haven't drunk quite as much.
- JF: How's this key? What's your name sir?
- Young Man : Masked Marvel.
- They perform.
- JF: No no no we gonna sing you some songs from way
down south. We recognise that this is Southern culture up
here. Let us sing you something REAL DEEP SOUTH. Do you
know "Troubled Bout my Mother"? Well, what do
you know?
- Marked Marvel: I know a lot of Charley Patton. Blind
Willie McTell. "Moon Goin' Down"?
- JF: No, no, spirituals.
- They are all looking blank. The audience is growing
restive. Fahey is losing their attention.
- JF: Do you do "Down by the Riverside"? It's
kind of a little overdone, don't you think?
- Someone suggests "The Other Side of the
Jordan" but no one remembers how it goes.
- JF: Do you do "Sone Day, Some Happy day"?
SOME DAAAAAAAY, SOME HAAAAAAAPPY DAAAAAAAY... You don't
know that.
- Masked marvel: I could follow it.
- JF: "Jesus Met a Woman by the Well"...
"Lord, Lord, He's a Dying Bed Maker"...
- Masked Marvel: Which one's that?
- JF: Well you tell me, cause you're singing.
- Masked Marvel: I'm drawin' a blank "I Shall Not
be Moved".
- A group of women in the audience break into "Will
the Circle be Unbroken".
- JF: Oh, man, everybody's tired of "Will the
Circle be Unbroken". God damn, come on ladies. Co me
on ladies, cool it, cool it. We're tryna do spiritual
songs that you ain't never heard before. You can hear
those songs any day of the week... If you don't like what
we're doin' you can kick us out, but what they're doin'
you can hear anytime up here. Now you had a song there,
"I Shall Not be Moved", but the original, not
the Martin Luther King stuff.
- They perform "I Shall Not be Moved".
- JF: Hey, you know what we got, we got a problem. I am
in a weird tuning in which I can only play in one key.
- Masked Marvel: Yeah, and it's a little too high for
me.
- JF: So I am gonna change to standard tuning... Ladies
and gentlemen, we are going to attempt to recreate in our
diminutive manner a song which A P Carter wrote many
years ago called "I'm Going Down to the River of
Jordan Some of these Days". Give me perhaps fifteen
seconds more to tune my guitar, cause I am just not as
good as Maybelle Carter to whom I did dedicate my new
book which isn't coming out by the way. Y'all will
forgive me for my lack of hot guitar licks, like Maybelle
Carter maybe, but I don't have a capo. Never use one.
Sing.
- They perform.
- JF: You know folks, we are amateurs at doin' this
gospel singin' but, by God, you know I was brought up in
Maryland, near the Appalachian Mountains, and, er , I
happen to believe all this stuff we're singing...
[collapses in laughter]. If anyone wants to sit around
and sing a few more gospel songs... I ain't gonna sing
nothing too sentimental, cause I don't believe in that...
"Horses"? I wrote a song called "
Horses" but it ain't got nothin' to do with this
stuff man... Well, you're from Ohio and--- hey, Canada's
same as Ohio. Better place than where I live. I have to
live in that damn place California and I hate it. Let us
not do "Gospel Ship" because Joan Baez did it
and I hate her... Look, I want songs that didn't come out
of the God damned folk boom. I want songs that came out
of these hills just like I did. Yeah, that's what I'm
looking for, man. Songs that come out of my heart didn't
come out of this Joan Baez Pete Seeger crap. Beg pardon?
- Audience: "Requiem to John Hurt".
- JF: No, no, that part of the show's over, we're just
singing a few gospel songs... If we do this song
"Will the Circle be Unbroken" which you've all
heard, we're gonna do it really nice...
- ROCKPALAST VIDEO : LIVE IN HAMBURG 17/3/78
- On the Sunny Side of the ocean
- Hawaiian Two Step
- Tiger
- The Approaching of the Disco Void
- Steve Talbot on the Keddie Wye
- Steamboat Gwine Round de Bend
- How Green was my Valley
- Candy Man/Brenda's Blues
- Take a Look at that Baby
- Beverley
- When you wore a Tulip/Ann Arbor
- The Revolt of the Dyke Brigade/Requiem for Mississippi
John Hurt
- The Discovery of the Sylvia Scott
- Poor Boy/Steel Guitar Rag
- Christmas at McCabe's December 1979
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing/O Come all ye Faithful
- O Come O Come Emmanuel/Good Christian Men/What Child
is this
- We Three Kings/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming/God Rest ye Merry,
Gentlemen/In Christ there is no East nor West
- Joy to the World/The Bells of St Mary's/Auld Lang
Syne/Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt
- Silent Night
- Italian Recording Session with Maurizio
Angeletti 1982
- I'll See You in my Dreams
- Stomping Tonight Fantasy
- The Life and Death of LA's Motels (1 & 2)
- An otherwise unknown (and undistinguished) song
- Lonesome Weary Blues
- The latter two are duets
- Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival 1983
- On the Sunny Side of the ocean/Hawaiian Two-Step/Logan
County Blues
- Tiger
- Steamboat Gwine Round de Bend
- How Green was my Valley
- Silent Night
- The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
- Steve Talbot on the Keddie Wye
- The Voice of the Turtle/Charlie Becker's Meditation
- Steamboat Gwine Round de Bend
- How Green was my Valley
- Mark 1:15/Let Go
- The Last Steam Engine Train
- The Revolt of the Dyke Brigade/Funeral Song for John
Hurt
- The Grand Finale
- THE RAIN FORESTS DEMO TAPE (1984)
- Note: exactly what it says. You can hear Fahey
switching the home tape recorder on and off all the time.
The titles appear to have come from JF.
- Of the 12 pieces only Night Train to Valhalla is
complete. Four of the rest actually made it onto
the"Rainforests" album.
- Ocean Waves
- By Bola Sete
- Brazilian Song
- Entitled "Joganda" , this is the first song
on Bola Sete' s "Ocean Vol 2", and was recorded
by fahey under the title "Unknown Tango" on
"I Remember Blind Joe Death" 3 years later.
- Moscow Nights
- Under the title "Midnight in Moscow" this
was a No 1 hit in 1961 for the English trad jazz band
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. The tune comes from a Russian
song by Vassili Soloviev-Sedoi and M Matusovsky (credit
where credit' s due, says the IFC). An odd choice, even
for Fahey.
- Dance of the Jungle
- Untitled
- First version of "Melody McOcean"
- Night Train to Valhalla
- This fine version has a long original introduction.
- Slow Blues in Open G
- Similar to Charley Patton's "Love my Stuff"
- Untitled
- The penultimate section is Elizabeth Cotton's
"Spanish Flang Dang"
- Oregon Rain Forest
- Untitled
- Om Sri, Jai, Sri Jai Shananach Aria
- Wm F Buckley
- Mr Buckley is a well-known right-wing American
magazine editor, TV host, columnist and author of amongst
others "Atlantic High", which Fahey used to
rename this composition.
- Nine songs
- West Virginia Rag
- Delta Serenade
- 1950s medley: In the Still of the Nite
- My Prayer
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Blueberry Hill
- Pony Blues
- Spoonful Blues
- Claire
- The Great Pretender
- A Fool Such as I
- Diane Kelley
- Unknown
- ANDY KERSHAW SESSION 15 October 1987
- Nightmare/Summertime
- Spanish Two-Step
- On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
- Dance of Death
- Supposedly, Richard Thompson, the great English
acoustic-electric guitarist and singer-songwriter, a
Fahey fan himself, was so appalled at what he perceived
to be Fahey's sloppiness in this set that he phoned Andy
Kershaw and asked to record an acoustic set for the
programme to make up for it, in some karmic way. Richard
was probably unaware of Fahey's various health problems,
which by 1987 were beginning to affect his guitar
playing.
- AZALEA CITY MEMORIES AND OTHER TOXIC
MEMORABILIA (1990)
- This is a so-far unreleased album which was completed
at the same time as (and is the obvious companion to)
"Old Girlfriends".
- Dorothy Gooch Part II
- A new composition. In 1991 this was turned into
Fahey's second-ever song-with-lyrics (the first - you
knew this! - being "Some Summer Day" for
Fonotone). The lyricist was long-time Fahey associate,
guitarist and tablature writer Janet Smith. Fahey asked
Janet to transcribe the tune in a letter written on the
back of a copy of pages from "Admiral Kelvinator's
Clockwork Factory" , JF's unpublished
autobiographical fantasy. JS asked to see more of that
MS. "Darned if she didn't come up with a set of
words based on an episode from my own life!"
exclaims Fahey. "We essentially worked out a fairly
final version of the lyrics over the phone and through
the mail. The piece and the song are dedicated to Dorothy
Gooch, a girl I knew and loved many years ago."
(Information from "Acoustic Guitar" Jan/Feb
1992.
- Alas, with lines like "Two young hearts could
never guess how far/Our lives' journeys would lead us
apart" the song will, we feel, attract few cover
versions. In fact, the editors would like to classify
"Dorothy the Song" in a category reserved also
for "Pretty Afternoon the Song" - see note to
that one.
- The present recording is with guitar only.
- Dorothy Gooch Part I
- A re-recording of the piece from VOT (1968)
- Two American Folk Hymns
- From "Yes! Jesus Loves Me" (1980)
- In the Still of the Night
- The original by the 5 Satins is supposed to be
"America's favourite oldie".
- Banjo St
- A major new composition which evolved over the years
into "Who will Rock the Cradle" (In Concert
video, 1996) and "Red Rocking Chair" (Georgia
Stomps, 1998). Dock Boggs is the original inspiration,
especially "Country Blues" and "Sugar
Babe" (from AAFM). The second slow part of this long
piece is from "Willie Moore" (AAFM).
- The editors would like to know what the tune is which
appears around 2.20. They had the temerity to ask Fahey
himself, but he just said "I thought I wrote
it" which wasn't much help.
- My Prayer
- Composed by Boulanger and Kennedy, and sung by the
Platters. No 1 in 1956.
- Springtime in Azalea City
- This recording possibly dates from 1965 or 1966 and is
from Fahey's own archives (what other gems like there
unheard? Heard melodies are sweet, but unheard sweeter
still.) Parts are speeded-up phrases from what we now
know as "Dry Bones in the Valley" (Old
Fashioned Love, 1974)
- Our Lady of Sorrows
- A shorter version of "The Voice of the
Turtle" (America, 1970)
- Horses
- From "After the Ball" , 1973.
- Old Girlfriends Outtakes
- Dorothy Gooch Part II
- Marilyn/My Prayer/John Henry Variations/Orinda-Moraga
- Blueberry Hill
- The Thing at the End of New Hampshire Avenue
- Tuff
- View
- Delta Dog (Through the Book of Revelation)
- Come Go with Me/Come Softly to Me
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