High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Of Rivers and Religion is an album by American folk musician John Fahey, released in 1972. It was his first recording on a major label, (Reprise Records) and is credited to John Fahey and His Orchestra. It marked a significant change from Fahey`s previous releases, incorporating a backing band and performing songs and arrangements in a Dixieland jazz style. Although Time picked it as one of the Top Ten albums of 1972, it was also a difficult album to market and had little enthusiasm at Reprise.