Bill Fay: Countless Branches
Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2020
HAD JEFF TWEEDY not chosen to cover 'Be Not So Fearful' in the 2002 Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, the song's writer might today still be the relatively underground and unheralded figure he'd been for the previous three decades. The interest it rekindled in the music of Bill Fay led not only to his long-deleted back catalogue being reissued, but also to the now 76-year-old releasing a trio of new albums in the last seven years.
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