SEALED JOHN FAHEY Days Have Gone By Volume 6 Takoma SS

2. Impression of Susan. Played in open G minor . Composed in Arkansas in July 1966 upon reading a letter from a pen pal in Brazil, named Susan Turner of West Grant Ave., Takoma Park, Md., Fahey's home. According to DPB: Nevertheless Fahey apparently never met the girl. It is a lovely piece which opens a new vista in Fahey's musical development. The piece shows clear influence of and perhaps confirmation of the famous Jungesque theory equating the genetive principle with the animalistic nature of a particularly bovine variety of creature. Those who are not familiar with the Master's earlier opi will find this one tough going." (I frankly don't know what DPB is talking about here - Ed.)

3. Joe Kirby. Played in standard tuning. Key of A minor. No information available on Fahey's relationship to Joe Kirby (if he had one at all). No one ever heard of him except Son House who said in an interview with Tree Sloth Man held at Venice, Calif., May 7, 1965 of which a tape recording is on deposit at the Folklore Center at UCLA, that: "(Joe Kirby) was a white fellow (who) owned a plantation on up above. . . . where I lived on (highway) 61 right off on Claxton (probably Clayton - - - ed.), Mississippi. Me Charley (Patton) and Willie (Brown) and all that was our old stomping ground. That's where we used to drink so much of that corn whiskey made in coffee pots and everything. That's where I got Louise at, Louise Johnson. She lived over at that place, and that's why she got to go with me and Charley then to Grafton Wisc. to make a record playing piano. . . (That is) where we played all the time. " DPB: "Composed at disolution of of relationship with Melinda I (also subject of "101 is a hard road to travel") Circa June, 1965. I cannot explain why he named it thusly."

4. Night Train to Valhalla: Composed at Martin's Esso Servicecenter, Lanly Park Md., circa Feb 1960, an analogue to Roy Acuff's "Night Train to Memphis". Played in open G, key of D. DPB: This song was written while John was quite young and when he was in one of his comparatively restless moods. At this point he was searching for a mysterious new line of thought in music that never quite materialized, and was later abandoned like a lonely old ghost town. You won't like it unless you like his earlier albums. And you won't like them unless you like this one.

5. The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith California. Played in open C. Composed by Fahey in late 1962 or early 1963 after driving from Albuquerque to Berkeley. Fahey was impressed by the contrast between this enormous edifice, the smoke which poured from it and the surrounding green hillsides. Upon arriving in Berkeley he took a bath, had Pat over for dinner and composed it in her presence later in the evening.

6. A Raga Called Pat: Played in open C tuning with the top two strings in unison (no third). According to DPB "merely impressionistic ramblings while thinking about Pat improvised on the stage of the ash grove (and recorded there also) in June, 1966. The majority of the audience left during its performance. Agitated members went to the zoo and brought forth animals to alarm Fahey. But he finished the set which was a benefit for The Hook.

7. My Shepard Will Supply My Needs. Played in standard tuning, mostly in the key of C . Improvisation upon and statement of the theme of an appalachian folk hymn.

8 . Grandfather's Clock. Standard tuning, key of C, accompany guitar is R. Gubbert Gardner, capoed way up the neck somewhere. What can you say about this song except that it supplies comic relief?

9. Days Have Gone By. Recorded at Frederick, Maryland at the phonytone recording studios, April 1962. Accompanying voices are Harmonica ED, Jolly Joe Buzzard and the Spider Lady. Fahey speaks once. Played in standard tuning with the bottom E string lowered to a D, key of D. Made as a demonstration tape for Pat Sullivan.

10. We Would Be Building. Harmonics played in open C tuning. Tune played in standard tuning, key of C. Composed by Jean Sibelius, known as "Finlandia" the national anthem of Finland. Learned by Fahey in church as a youth under its present title as a hymn.

Referring to the recording in general DPB says the following: Only by the commandeering of such superior and ultra-modern stuff was it possible at all to capture the inner and outer essences and superficialities of that man' s MUSIC . (Presumably DPB is referring to the mastering job done by Sierra Sound Studios.) As Henry Miller has said, "a little too much light, a little too much energy. . . . . . and one is rendered unfit for human society." So it goes, sometimes, with our boy. But only sometimes.

Evil ones will tell you he is wierd, but his heart is pure (?-ed. ). This purity was never more in evidence that in this remarkable record. Fahey afficionadoes will dissolve. The general public will be confused. Those who know Fahey will be disturbed. But, as there is always a new year to come, perhaps the first month of this newyear will be bright for Fahey. And though, as a rule, blossums do not burst in that season, perhaps for Fahey a new variety of flower will bloom in that month. Such being the case, we may anticipate at midyear, a great bursting- forth. Perhaps we will be blessed by an opithalamium or two.

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