Topic: "Unknown Bards" - From Harper's Nov. 2008

[Stuart]

http://www.eyland.org/files/unknown_bards.pdf

Hardly the best scan, but your local library might have it in their holdings.

[onewent]

..thanks, Stuart, I very much enjoyed reading that.  Tom

[blueshome]

Thanks for that.

[uncle bud]

Interesting article. A little bit romantic about it all, but hey, it's Harper's, and aren't we all. I didn't know it was a review until 3,000 words in. I will point out though that the bolted meal revelation in Last Kind Words was available on the Weenie site a good four years before the publication of this article, and discussed prior to that in the old Yahoo group.

[CF]

The author states that 'Last Kind Words' is a duet between Wiley & Thomas which I'm assuming was Fahey's opinion but I don't think I ever heard two guitars. Anyone else?

[uncle bud]

I've leaned towards one guitar most of the time, although there's something about the sound that suggests the possibility of two, with one playing fairly minimally. The sound over the V chord is a spot where it sort of sounds like two to me at times. And there's a spot at the beginning, at the 0:05 mark, where it sounds like a second guitar.

[Pan]

Sounds like just one guitar to me.

Cheers

Pan