Goat: Limited Swirl Vinyl LP Big Country Rakes of Poverty 4

Rakes of Poverty 4

1972 poetry reading from which this 1980 release on John Fahey’s Takoma label is drawn

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Goat: Limited Swirl Vinyl LP Big Country Rakes of Poverty 4The Ouroborus that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, its taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, its an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever mysterious and endlessly