Below is a detail of the painting (from the back cover), which appears to borrow freely from Von Schmidt's design.

Here is the blurb from the back cover:

Two days after the publication of BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME, Richard Fariņa died in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, California. Thus, he never knew of the success of his 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 and Ireland, the expatriate scene in London and Paris, the big time folk rock 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.

Something tells me that this book was marketed mainly to Fariņa's rock fans rather than to a literary following. Bum trips and mind-blasts, dude!

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