I realize I'm 20 years late with this reply, but since the whole world is   
   holding its breath waiting for an answer, let me provide one now.   
      
   I knew Randy Brook in 1972.We both lived in Venice Beach, California, at the   
   time.  He told me the whole story. What happened was that he had somehow   
   gotten a Life Magazine article written about him (I think it was in August of   
   that year) with photos of    
   him hitchhiking across the country.  He had used the article to leverage a   
   recording session and had gone in with his musical buddy - Stan Young (who   
   wrote half the songs and co-produced the recordings) and various other friends   
   (including Shep Cook -    
   who was with the "McCabes Guitar Shop Floating House Band" in Santa Monica,   
   who were also recorded by John Fahey and Takoma records at that time) and just   
   kind of winged the album.    
      
   Afterwards he shopped it around hollywood looking for a label, and John Fahey   
   bought it and produced the album. But the music wasn't exactly the Fahey   
   brand, so Fahey created a "subsidiary" label called "Devi Records" (which   
   Brook didn't really like    
   because it was just one letter short of "Devil").  Brook's was the only album   
   ever to appear on that label.   
      
   Apparently the album was no great commercial success - as predicted - and in   
   fact he told me he never got a dime in residuals from Takoma. But it did seem   
   to have a small, loyal underground following and was a part of the Folk-Rock   
   musical lexicon of the    
   70s.   
      
   Last I heard from Randy he had had what he called "a revelation" and had   
   become a believer in The Bible and its God. Funny, because the last song on   
   the album ("Can You Hear It?") was written to the tune of the old Gospel   
   classic "Will The Circle Be    
   Unbroken" , and even had a tongue-in-cheek aside from Brook at the beginning   
   of the instrumental interlude, where he said "Take it, Jesus" - even though he   
   was a non believer at the time.   
      
   Go figure.   
      
   Our last conversation was over a decade ago, but at that time he was intent on   
   letting me know that he was living what he called a blessed life and was   
   almost indecently happy. I guess all's well that ends well, huh?   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)