Yep this sounds a lot like Alice's Restaurant, but before you think Hot Tuna is borrowing from Arlo Guthrie, Keep in mind that that
Blind Boy Fuller wrote "Trucking My Blues Away" (same song, different title) --and several other songs with the same chord progression--in the mid '30s.
I've enjoyed playing Fahey tunes for years but hadn't heard these Fonetone recordings you posted. I play Some Summer Day but never even knew it had words!.
Yep this sounds a lot like Alice's Restaurant, but before you think Hot Tuna is borrowing from Arlo Guthrie, Keep in mind that that
Blind Boy Fuller wrote "Trucking My Blues Away" (same song, different title) --and several other songs with the same chord progression--in the mid '30s.