Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone

Two days after the publication of Been Down So Log It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Fariña died in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, California. Thus, he never knew of the success of the book, or his recognition as one of the most original and authentic voices of his generation. Long Time Coming And A Long Time Gone goes beyond that first novel in range and savage candor. It is a multi-track recording in prose and poetry of highs and lows, bum trips and mind-blasts, and of an odyssey that made the revolutionary scene in Cuba n Ireland, the expatriate scene in London and Paris, the big time folk scene in the U.S., and the human scene every inch of the way. It's all here. All very choice. And all very alive. Now and forever.