Name: Bill Fay
Brand: Bill Fay

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Catalogue number

eclec2037

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-02-10

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Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Bill Fay

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Esoteric Recordings

As a songwriter, the music written and recorded by Bill Fay has taken many years to reach the audience it deserved, thanks mainly to Wilco covering Fay's Be Not so Fearful, a song featured on Fay's first album. Now highly regarded, Fay's debut album is now released by Esoteric recordings. Bill Fay, first released on the nova label, was a work both sumptuous and delicately melancholic. featuring string arrangements by jazz musician Mike Gibbs, sessions would also feature guitarist Ray Russell. Cited by uncut magazine as 'the missing link between Nick Drake, Ray Davies and Bob Dylan', Bill Fay's work now has the patronage of a younger generation of musicians to bring Fay the critical accolades he deserved. Fay's supremely creative muse has deservedly come full circle. This reissue also adds fay's first recorded offerings, the single Screams in the Ears and b-side Some Good Advice. These recordings first appeared in 1967, produced by Peter Eden and featured Southend band the Fingers, as the backing band.

Music GB