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Duet with Bill Barth and on the first pressing of this record credited to “Fahey/Barth”. The Ouachita River (sic) passes through north Louisiana and Arkansas.
From the sleevenotes: “At its first performance, given at a private party of select people in a suburb of the nation’s capitol, the hostess was so overcome that she gave John and his friends 3/4 of a chocolate cake, 2 plates of spaghetti, a fifth of bourbon, and 8 penicillin pills.”
This piece is an expansion of the theme music to Pather Panchali by Satjajit Ray (1955) which was composed by Ravi Shankar. The theme copied by Fahey & Barth crops up at various times, firstly as a plaintive flute melody. Fahey & Barth try for a restrained interpretation, but syncopation gets the better of them and they can’t resist “rocking it up”.
JF : “I went to see a number of times the year I was flunking out of Berkeley. I was severely depressed because I couldn’t find a girlfriend and I couldn’t pass philosophy exams.”
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