RE: [Harp-L] Rare Blind Owl

["Peter S..." <p.stris@xxxxxxxxx>]

This looks to be it:

http://alanwilsoncannedheat.com/woodstock-discography.php 

(Tacoma Records, 1966)  Alan Featured on:  John Fahey: The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions

Sail Away Ladies-  Recorded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA in July 1965. In 1970 Fahey explains it âconsists of edited portions of an hour or longer improvisational session with Alan Wilson playing what at that time was my veena (predecessor to the sitar, no resonating strings). I later gave the veena to Al because I owed him some money and because he learned to play it in two days. The recording was made the second day. I could never learn to play the damn thing anyways.  Al was a real musical genius and a hell of a nice guy (and much else).â - from johnfahey.com

........Pete in Alaska


-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Lines
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:33 PM
To: David Fairweather; Harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Rare Blind Owl

It certainly sounds like Alan but the album was released in 1992 and the only musicians listed are Fahey, his wife and Terry Robb. It could be an old track that he held onto. Alan originally came to California to transcribe music for a book Fahey was writing.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Fairweather
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 1:17 PM
To: Harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Rare Blind Owl

Here's a rare track of Alan Wilson playing some meditative chromatic on a John Fahey lp. The track is called "Fear and Loathing at 4th & Butternut".
https://youtu.be/n9UscNE4lNs