7. Train - aka (on label, amusingly)
“The Little Train that Couldn’t”
(OLV)
No problem in identifying this Train. According to the sleeve details (for once correct) the players are John Fahey, gtr; L Mayne Smith ,bjo; Mark Levine, 2nd gtr. The track was issued as by John Fahey's Shuffle Band on Fonotone 6709 and entitled “John Henry Blues”. The recording is from the Transfiguration sessions which also produced “Come Back Baby”.
7a. Another Train (BLV)
In the place of “John Henry Blues” on the OLV comes a swinging guitar/fiddle piece which turns out to be our third objet trouve. It’s the flipside of The Blue Boys, and is called “Memphis Stomp”. Not Fahey.
8. Je Ne Me Reveillais
    Matin Pas En May
Just goes to show what a little vocal training and a sober lifestyle sitting around the kitchen table can produce. I think this is one of JF’s most trenchant vocal renditions. And as for that immortal line ".... play it ED . . ." - well!
From the September 1965 live Jabberwock Coffee House set which was recorded for Takoma but not issued. See DDD. See AAFM too, for Didier Herbert.

9. The Story of Dorothy Gooch Pt One.
We had to wait until the unissued 1990 album “Azalea City” for Part Two. A lovely piece, and the only “straightforward” (as it were) Fahey composition on VOT. A kind of companion piece for “Some Summer Day”.
The dissenting Malcolm Kirton writes: “To me it’s like the Best and the Worst of JF in one. I mean, it’s very impressive in a way, inventive, and the sound effects are great, but isn’t it just a bit…pompous, or overstated maybe. The main theme [is] played at a leaden and deliberate tempo that anticipates late Fahey. Oblique and possibly programmatic, judging from the passing allusions, a la Ives (or Cloutier), to “Deutschland Uber Alles”, “White Christmas”, “Christ was Born on Christmas Morn” and probably other tunes. Note the five opening notes added for the BLV.”
10. Nine Pound Hammer
From “99 Year Blues” by Julius Daniels on AAFM, and from “Spike Driver Blues” by Mississippi John Hurt. Who, though, is singing? It may be Fahey but I kinda doubt it by now. Could be anybody.

PART THREE : THE ENGINEER’S NOTES ARE NOT THE ROSETTA STONE

The Voice of the Turtle