Bill Fay: Who Is the Sender - COMPACT DISCS

Bill Fay: Who Is the Sender - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Who Is the Sender Artist: Bill Fay Label: Dead Oceans Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 656605139722 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2015 04 28 Number of Discs: 1 Ask Bill Fay about his relationship with his instrument and he says something revealing, not "Ever since I learnt to play the piano," but "Ever since the piano taught me" What the piano taught him was how to connect to one of the great joys of his life. "Music gives," he says. And he is a

Title: Who Is the Sender
Artist: Bill Fay
Label: Dead Oceans
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 656605139722
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2015-04-28
Number of Discs: 1

Ask Bill Fay about his relationship with his instrument and he says something revealing, not "Ever since I learnt to play the piano," but "Ever since the piano taught me..." What the piano taught him was how to connect to one of the great joys of his life. "Music gives," he says. And he is a grateful receiver. But, it makes him wonder, "Who is the sender?" Fay - who after more than five decades writing songs is finally being appreciated as one of our finest living practitioners of the art - asserts that songs aren't actually written but found. He recorded two phenomenal but largely overlooked albums for Decca offshoot Nova in 1970 and 1971. After 27 years of neglect, people like Nick Cave, Jim O' Rourke, and Jeff Tweedy were praising those records in glowing terms. Recorded in Ray Davies' Konk Studios, North London, Who Is The Sender? sees Bill expanding upon themes he has touched on from the beginning, spiritual and philosophical questions, observations about the natural world and the people in the city he has lived in all his life.

Tracks:
1.1 The Geese Are Flying Westward
1.2 War Machine
1.3 How Little
1.4 Underneath the Sun
1.5 Something Else Ahead
1.6 Order of the Day
1.7 Who Is the Sender?
1.8 The Freedom to Read
1.9 Bring It on Lord
1.10 A Page Incomplete
1.11 A Frail and Broken One
1.12 World of Life
1.13 I Hear You Calling (Studio Reunion)